Example sentences for: torn

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • To widespread regret, Victor Baltard’s great cast-iron and glass pavilions were torn down in the 1970s.

  • 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.


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