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Example sentences for: ripping

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KAETHE (ripping off her mask): Not so fast!
Bennett's most conspicuous failure--his only conspicuous failure, in fact--was his defense of former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, who is now serving time for ripping off the House Post Office and gift shop.
Ripping up anything means destroying it, often by severing the connective tissues, from ripping up floorboards to ripping up a draft card.
During the occupation of Boston, the English desecrated the church ripping out the pews and using it as a riding school.
Other critics predict Microsoft's new bells and whistles will make no difference to the average user, who will consider the competing browsers "more alike than different" (Bruce Schwartz, USA Today ). Still others accuse Microsoft of predatory business practices, including ripping off the programming language Java from its competitor Sun.