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Example sentences for: torn

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

They were said to have carried their deadly charges in attach, cases, with the result that the lower parts of their bodies were torn away but their faces were curiously intact.
knowing all the while that, having known, I always will know this torn, singular voice
I remain addicted to my Miami vice, although torn by the knowledge that all over the country are innocent children, naive relatives, and perplexed winter visitors, all telling their friends and families about the wildlife I showed them in Florida.
Or the Web site of Mary Anne Mohanraj, whose most recent book, Torn Shapes of Desire , is touted as "eminently literary, well-written and tasteful" (there's that word again).
Of course, the notion that Asian-Americans are torn between an outward allegiance to this country and a hard-wired fealty to some Oriental motherland has a long and undistinguished pedigree.