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Example sentences for: tearing

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

At 45 to 50 knots, the wind shrieked throughout the ship and was actually tearing off the tops of the 25-to-30-foot seas.
Dole ( gesturing darkly ): Scaring seniors and tearing me apart.
The major mode of failure was ligament tearing at both of the strain rates.
A humorless sense of moral superiority is de rigueur , fostered by the belief that those of us who go out and stomp the natural world under our Vibram soles are healing Gaea while the rest of the world is tearing her down.
In the PCL, ligament tearing occurred at the lower stain rate, where as bone avulsion occurred at the higher strain rate.