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Example sentences for: tore

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Turns out that Bill got one letter last year that just tore at his heartstrings.
: "He tore off his clothes and went running through the office shrieking, 'I can't stand these earth tones.
Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that "the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent."
According to the Journal 's Dorothy Rabinowitz, Broaddrick says Clinton tore her pantyhose during the 1978 encounter, "held her down forcibly and bit her lips," leaving them "swollen to double their size," and tried to apologize 13 years later, just before announcing his campaign for president.
Free trade "tore down the walls of economic and political oppression," said Moore.