How to Use asunder in a Sentence

asunder

adverb or adjective

• Once asunder, the spikes can no longer help the virus attach.
  — Megan Scudellari, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2022
• And childbirth sounds scary as hell — to be torn asunder!
  — New York Times, 3 May 2021
• This crucial query has torn the show's fandom asunder for a decade-plus.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• Instead, these miserable souls come back to life and serve the Demigods who tore the land asunder.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 26 Feb. 2022
• At least eight people there died as the building was ripped asunder.
  — Travis Caldwell and Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• Someday, in my opinion, and maybe soon, the Rajneesh cult will break asunder.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• And what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 17 Oct. 2017
• A few weeks ago — 43 years after her mom laid their love asunder — Gustavson and Watts were married.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Planets could be built, torn asunder and rebuilt in just 10 million years or less.
  — Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• But they were torn asunder by the conquerors from Baltimore.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2020
• Their people have been drawn together more than they have been pulled asunder.
  — The Economist, 12 June 2020
• Our culture is ripped asunder, and there’s not a lot that holds us together anymore.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• The division in the country where there were times where people were thinking the country was going to be torn asunder.
  — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
• But then Malik decided he was done with the band and everything was torn asunder.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 14 Sep. 2017
• As the famed witticism goes, the best of plans can sometimes be set asunder upon first contact with abundant forces.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• The very fabric of America was tearing, like the curtain in the Temple ripped asunder when Christ exhaled his last breath.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• Money and power and the death of the family icon can rip a family — and a football franchise — asunder.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2020
• That tranquility is torn asunder one night when a stranger (Ed Harris) knocks on their door, thinking the place is a bed and breakfast.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
• Picture pleading eyes and hear limbs being torn asunder.
  — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• Improvements can be dramatic and fast, just as the speed and strength of major college football can knock things asunder.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2017
• Every time this happens, family members and friends of the victims have their lives torn asunder in an instant.
  — Alexander Tsai, STAT, 27 June 2018
• Luckily, on Potomac, there’s still time for fun, even when it is tucked in between lawsuits and friendships torn asunder.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• But Miral is still trying to imagine a future from a present that’s been torn asunder by death, destruction and absence.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• In prior episodes of turmoil cities like New York have bounced back because their people have been drawn together more than they have been pulled asunder.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The show has a very satirical element in which Ilana is a white woman who lives in Brooklyn, who has the best politics, and whose world is torn asunder by the election.
  — The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• Langford’s indefinite injury and likely loss for the entire season tore asunder many of the plans MSU had on the perimeter.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2019
• The scandal surrounding Ghosn’s 2018 arrest on charges of tax fraud in Japan threatens to rip the companies’ alliance asunder.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2019
• Some mighty tornado, or resistless cyclone, may rend its massive blocks asunder and hurl huge fragments to the ground.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
• The scrolling feeds on social media and the live updates on websites pull us together and yet, in the same moment, effortlessly cast us asunder.
  — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2020
• Somehow, though, the answers never add up, nor do the details that convincingly define a life torn asunder.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024