Example sentences for: tear

How can you use “tear” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After Tuesday and Wednesday's violent clashes, in which police made more than 500 arrests and used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators, hundreds of people gathered peacefully outside the city jail and called for the protesters' release.

  • homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!

  • A. Police fire tear gas.

  • Patrick Leahy first heard the articles of impeachment formally presented, "a single tear coursed his cheek."

  • Pyrotechnic tear gas has tactical advantages.


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