How to Use asunder in a Sentence
asunder
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Once asunder, the spikes can no longer help the virus attach.
—Megan Scudellari, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2022
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And childbirth sounds scary as hell — to be torn asunder!
—New York Times, 3 May 2021
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This crucial query has torn the show's fandom asunder for a decade-plus.
—Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
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Instead, these miserable souls come back to life and serve the Demigods who tore the land asunder.
—Brittany Vincent, BGR, 26 Feb. 2022
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At least eight people there died as the building was ripped asunder.
—Travis Caldwell and Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
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Someday, in my opinion, and maybe soon, the Rajneesh cult will break asunder.
—Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
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And what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.
—Sarah Jones, New Republic, 17 Oct. 2017
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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
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Planets could be built, torn asunder and rebuilt in just 10 million years or less.
—Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
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But they were torn asunder by the conquerors from Baltimore.
—Scott Patsko, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2020
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Their people have been drawn together more than they have been pulled asunder.
—The Economist, 12 June 2020
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Our culture is ripped asunder, and there’s not a lot that holds us together anymore.
—New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
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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
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But then Malik decided he was done with the band and everything was torn asunder.
—Richard Lawson, Vanities, 14 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Picture pleading eyes and hear limbs being torn asunder.
—Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Twilight fans did not actually want to have their bodies ripped asunder by a super-strong fetus with a vampire for a father.
—Time, 11 Aug. 2023
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