How to Use pull apart in a Sentence

pull apart

phrasal verb

• The inside would be soft from the eggs, ready to be pulled apart with our hands.
  — Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Gently pull apart the left and right sides for a more relaxed look.
  — Dory Zayas, Parents, 26 July 2024
• Place covered pan back in the oven and cook till the meat pulls apart using just a fork.
  — The View, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Instead use your hands to pull apart the injera and use it to scoop up the split pea, lentil, and cubed lamb stews.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• Harvesting the Meat For split legs, pull apart the shell with your fingers.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
• This follows with a gentle pulling apart of still wet-hair, getting to the roots of the matter.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2023
• Cutting off the base of lettuces leaves you with rosettes and pulling apart leaves gives you petals to scatter.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• Just as a drop of water can be pulled apart, the surface tension can pull it apart.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• Here, the rocks of the mantle have been pushed close to the surface as the ocean floor slowly pulls apart at the nearby Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
• To check for doneness, use a sharp knife to cut into the thickest part of the meat; when cooked, the flesh will start to pull apart and almost flake.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• The two are pulled apart, just long enough for the referee to run toward the baseline as a group of players give chase.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2023
• For some, this means exploring ways to pull apart and reinterpret the form.
  — Genevieve Marks, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The two are pulled apart, just long enough for Harrison to run toward the baseline as a group of players give chase.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2023
• The pastry shell is golden, with the layers pulling apart from one another like scales.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• This makes Parker House Rolls easy to pull apart and separate to enjoy the softness inside.
  — Laura Kanya, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• Lessons must be given time to take root and unfold like flowers, not forcefully pulled apart.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 14 June 2023
• Here's how to pull this prank off: To make the crackers, pull apart several vanilla sandwich cookies.
  — Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024
• This is a solid no-frills French-style croissant, something to pull apart with a morning coffee, but not eat as a sandwich.
  — Kimberly Cataudella Tutuska, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• The mountain formed from the sedate shifts of the nearby mid-Atlantic ridge, where the North American and African tectonic plates slowly pull apart.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• An actor who made it through the ’90s – an era when stars were being created and pulled apart like faulty Build-a-Bears with alarming frequency.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2024
• Then the pandemic arrived, and everyone was pulled apart.
  — USA Today, 26 June 2023
• Split biscuits in half horizontally by making a small cut with a paring knife and pulling apart with hands.
  — Tiffany Vickers Davis, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2024
• The bones had been pulled apart, presumably by scavengers, animals.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
• Splitting plants is fairly easy: First, dig up your entire plant, pull apart the roots gently, and then cut them into multiple pieces with a sharp tool.
  — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 2024
• Young players being pulled apart from teammates who’ve grown close is commonplace during the peak of trade season.
  — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2024
• Because their corpses were so heavy, they were sometimes left to decompose until they could be pulled apart and removed piecemeal.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
• According to him, to know is to shatter, to pull apart; a state of knowledge is an exposure of a diverse cosmology that claims to unite a whole.
  — Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The short ribs are designed for those who appreciate the pleasures of the flesh: With the bones removed, the beef pulls apart in thick, gooey strands, as the meat, salt, fat and smoke meld into something greater than the component parts.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Of course, this was a lodge with all the trimmings, but the Boma transcended all time and place, pulling apart all the layers of luxury, fuelled by the delta’s wilderness, the culture of the country’s people and the depth of their rich souls.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Once the hide is off, seams between major muscle groups are visible, and many can be pulled apart by hand, or with only minimal assistance from a sharp knife.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024