How to Use rip up in a Sentence
rip up
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Sinead O’Connor had just ripped up a photo of the Pope.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
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By the time the 1990s came round, nylons were a thing of the past—seen only on first ladies, or ripped up on the legs of Courtney Love.
—Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
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The enormous tree’s root ball ripped up chunks of brick and concrete sidewalk.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
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Matos, once the Giants’ No. 4 overall prospect, is ripping up the Cactus League.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
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Storms can damage the flats where fishers and crabbers make their living, ripping up the grass where fish hide, feed and spawn.
—Rebecca Blackwell and James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
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But, after a few days, the nurses in Ward 3-A are amazed that Tyoma has stopped ripping up and chewing pieces of the windowsill.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Eradicating TikTok, like the killing off of Vine, rips up a piece of the social fabric.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
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One of the first of many commands my wife gave me after we got married was to rip up all the nandinas in front of my house.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2023
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People rip up their lawns and replace them with bricks and cobblestones.
—Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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The rush barely tapers as the automatic rips up through its gears.
—Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 14 May 2023
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This means construction crews need to rip up and repave roads so new buildings can get access to things such as sewers.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 22 Apr. 2024
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Some in the state are ripping up mustard plants and turning them into paper, dyes, pesto and, of course, mustard, the condiment.
—Eric Risberg and Janie Har, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
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Ford is ripping up its current user interface and coming up with a new one, with ease of use top of mind.
—Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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Different parts of the carpet were ripped up and the refrigerator was gone.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
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Different parts of the carpet were ripped up, and the refrigerator was gone.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
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So there are a few key considerations CEOs should weigh up before ripping up the rule book, Davis says.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 9 Dec. 2023
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One of the men is wearing blue jeans with rips up and down the leg, while the other appears to be wearing darker colored jeans while sporting a shoulder bag, or purse.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
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The Russian military secured the capital, soldiers deployed on the streets, and heavy equipment ripped up roads leading to the city.
—CBS News, 25 June 2023
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No lockdown drills, no tornado ripping up the building’s roof like one did in middle school, no firearms found on campus.
—Susannah Felts, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2023
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For that to happen, everything is getting ripped up so that a modern drainage system can be installed.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2023
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Around a decade ago, a conservation nonprofit worked out a deal to buy the 2,100-acre tract from the farmer, rip up the fields, and restore the ancient vegetation that once existed there.
—Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
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Existing roads would need to be ripped up and rebuilt with the transmitter coils and other necessary equipment.
—The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2024
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Ultimately, right-wingers would like to rip up America’s whole safety net.
—Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
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But that quickly unraveled during the hearing when prosecutors and defense lawyers disagreed about the fine print, and almost ripped up the entire deal in court.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
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Well, rip up the record books, folks, because that penthouse condo has just been sold again, this time for a brain-freezing and record-shattering $49 million in an off-market deal that was first sussed out by The Real Deal.
—Laura Euler For Dirt.com, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
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This means not only a total repudiation of Palestinian statehood, but also a pledge to rip up what’s left of the Oslo Accords.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024
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In the past, a new leader has typically ripped up existing projects and objectives and promoted his own.
—Matt Mossman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2015
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Some Argentina fans responded by ripping up and throwing seats at the officers as other fans panicked and came onto the pitch to escape the fighting.
—Reuters, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
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If the flagstones in the Long Room had been ripped up and replaced by parquet laid onto concrete 50 years ago, our idea was to add under-floor heating and a beautiful polished cement overlay that would have the feel and the warmth of flagstones.
—Amanda Harlech, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2023
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Houses start disappearing behind hedges, the Department of Public Works begins ripping up the streets and planting trees there.
—Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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