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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:

Congressional Republicans who support Weld's nomination don't want their party torn asunder in the process.
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).
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.
There's a poignant moment in his mostly very dull book when, as his career is being torn apart by the House Ethics Committee investigation into his college course, he describes visiting one of his favorite places, the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
"One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."