Example sentences for: tear

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

  • Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech in Berlin in 1987.

  • The limitations of languages are again brought home in A thousand curses do not tear a tobe [a shapeless, shirtlike garment]; or, most majestically of all, in The dogs bark, the caravan passes.

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  • Some critics praise it as having "the moody, disquieting undertow of a true moral thriller" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), while others call it "too implausible for anyone to rescue" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Slate 's David Edelstein is basically pro: "The upshot might be melodrama, but it's melodrama with heart, bones, sinews, and tear ducts."

  • After six years of denials, the FBI confessed it had fired incendiary tear gas devices at the Branch Davidian compound.


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