Example sentences for: torn

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

  • Every day you make decisions--probably including the decision to step outside your house and risk being torn apart by hounds as you pick up the morning paper (you could, after all, hire someone to bring the paper inside for you every day, just to be safe)--that implicitly value your own life at less than $46 million.

  • Blood stains on the carpet and seats, torn headliners, marred door panels, not to mention broken windows all add to your frustration.

  • Can you read out loud the following sentences, for instance, without feeling torn between rival renderings?

  • 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.

  • Da riven [torn] sleeve hauds de haund back .


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