How to Use tear apart in a Sentence

tear apart

phrasal verb

• Just five generations ago, African families were torn apart in the name of hate and greed.
  — Keyaira Kelly, refinery29.com, 19 June 2024
• The 1997 Marlins were celebrated and torn apart in the same moment.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2024
• Our borders are under siege, inflation is still wreaking havoc on our economy, crime is plaguing our cities, war tears apart our friends and allies overseas.
  — Mike Pence, National Review, 19 June 2024
• Those numbers don’t factor in the recent wave of realignment that tore apart the Pac-12 to leave only four power conferences.
  — Aaron Beard, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2024
• Four Daughters is a story about a family torn apart by religious extremism and institutional misogyny.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
• But by then the dog was gone, torn apart by the mountain lion.
  — Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Dozens of homes had slipped out to sea or been torn apart, the rubble strewn from land to shore.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• They’re torn apart if their debut projects fail to enter the top 10.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• Next to the gas station, RVs are torn apart, upside down or on their sides.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2024
• Cancel and Vo were torn apart by the barrage of bullets.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• The Image of You follows their close bond that threatens to be torn apart with the arrival of a lover.
  — Emily Maskell, Vulture, 3 June 2024
• Lydia’s world, like that of all Ukrainians, is torn apart.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
• On the state's west side, several homes were flattened, smashed and torn apart.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
• So telling the story of an America torn apart through the eyes of a group of journalists made sense.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• This slave sale in 1838 that saved Georgetown tore apart scores of families.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• This is not the first wave of realignment that has torn apart rivalries.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Bake in a cake pan, gently tear apart with your fingers, and serve these pillowy rolls to soak up any juices on your plate.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
• High levels of wind shear can tear apart an active storm or prevent one from forming in the first place.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 9 July 2024
• The structure is barely standing; the roof and walls are torn apart, and a neighbor's trailer seems to have landed on the back end of her home.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 17 June 2023
• The fact that music, like a lot of things of beauty, can be so torn apart, and stolen from us, by dark forces… Robert was very apologetic.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• Watson tore apart his house, digging out every flash drive.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• If one galaxy is much smaller than the other, it can be totally torn apart.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• The show chronicles a family torn apart by war and hatred.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• The classic story, set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s score, tells of a cursed princess whose romance with a prince is torn apart by an evil sorcerer.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• Parts of Gaza look like a wasteland One hundred days into the war, thousands of lives have been lost and countless families torn apart.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
• No one wants to snap in No. 999 and then tear apart the house in search of a missing piece (usually while the family dog attempts to look adorably innocent).
  — David Frese, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• Right now that's what's happening in the U.S., those are the communities that are being torn apart the most, but that are building themselves as a result.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• The big question is whether these changes can bring calm to Haiti, and put a stop to the terrible violence tearing apart Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• The whole show is this metaphor for the AIDS epidemic and for communities building themselves as a result of being torn apart.
  — Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• It would be torn apart with an excavator a little over 48 hours after the statement was released.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024