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Example sentences for: torn

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"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."
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.
The man had his throat torn out, and the woman was decapitated.
Or you might see him as a latter-day Grimm, in whose macabre universe getting your intestines torn out and sketching other children's severed heads are regrettable but quite ordinary parts of life as a little girl.
The paper's reporter on the spot, Richard Lloyd Parry, wrote that "warriors carrying spears, rifles and machetes displayed a severed ear and a human arm and offered me lumps of hearts and livers torn from the bodies of ethnic Madurese, who have become the target of a large-scale ethnic purge.