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Example sentences for: torn

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Saddam obviously cares nothing for the suffering of his people, except to display their torn bodies on television as evidence of American evil.
Rosie Perez fast-talks her way through this drama of a woman torn between her career and new baby.
To resist a turbulent United States torn by civil war, Anglo-Canadians wanted a strong central government delegating little more than municipal affairs to the provinces.
As a rule they stick to a punk-rock look: studded black leather jackets over plaid flannels and old Bad Brains T-shirts, black jeans (torn black tights or fishnets for the ladies), safety pins through the ears and nostrils, and heavy eyeliner.
Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.