How to Use rip up in a Sentence

rip up

phrasal verb

• Sinead O’Connor had just ripped up a photo of the Pope.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The enormous tree’s root ball ripped up chunks of brick and concrete sidewalk.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
• Matos, once the Giants’ No. 4 overall prospect, is ripping up the Cactus League.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Eradicating TikTok, like the killing off of Vine, rips up a piece of the social fabric.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
• 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
• People rip up their lawns and replace them with bricks and cobblestones.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• The rush barely tapers as the automatic rips up through its gears.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 14 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Different parts of the carpet were ripped up and the refrigerator was gone.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
• Different parts of the carpet were ripped up, and the refrigerator was gone.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For that to happen, everything is getting ripped up so that a modern drainage system can be installed.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Existing roads would need to be ripped up and rebuilt with the transmitter coils and other necessary equipment.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2024
• Ultimately, right-wingers would like to rip up America’s whole safety net.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024