Examples of to shreds in a Sentence
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Plenty of owners will have walked into a room to find their favorite belongings chewed to shreds, leaving them not mad, just disappointed.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
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A woman who fired her housekeeper for leaving fast food wrappers in the otherwise empty trash has been ripped to shreds on social media.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Sorry to say those were generally ripped to shreds.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Reeling under Woolf’s gaze, the narrator writes out the racist passage on an index card and tears it to shreds.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Woman Floored by How Boss Responds To Rescheduling a Meeting
By
Darlin Tillery
Life & Trends Reporter
Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member
news article
0
A woman who fired her housekeeper for leaving fast food wrappers in the otherwise empty trash has been ripped to shreds on social media.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Sorry to say those were generally ripped to shreds.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Reeling under Woolf’s gaze, the narrator writes out the racist passage on an index card and tears it to shreds.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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“To shreds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20shreds. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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