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Example sentences for: tearing

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The major mode of failure was ligament tearing at both of the strain rates.
In the movie as in the book, much of the action thereafter consists of an increasingly intense spiral of couplings among these parties, punctuated by tearing metal and shattering glass and inevitably climaxing in death.
Some years ago, when sportscaster Red Barber used Southern expressions like sitting in the catbird seat and tearing up the pea patch , there was a degree of national amusement.
In many other places, the ancient sites lay buried—and still do—beneath modern cities: modern property owners quite understandably take a dim view of tearing down their buildings on the off chance that the remnants of an ancient town will be found several yards below.
Nantucket, according to Sunday's Times , is fast being despoiled by parvenus who are tearing down historic houses and replacing them with soulless mansions because of loopholes in the local zoning laws.