How to Use tear away in a Sentence

tear away

verb

• In the wake of the blowout, headrests in two seats adjacent to the opening were torn away.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• In the case of store buildings which had their fronts torn away or caved in, no effort was made to take care of the place.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• The synths tear away at the song’s raw sentiment, making the kind of lame anthem that would play at a D.A.R.E. rally in the 1980s.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• The father explained that scratches on the girl had been caused by him trying to rub her tears away.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2023
• Soon, that will be torn away, traded for the reality of war.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
• For weeks now, the Russian leader has signaled he might be poised to tear away another chunk of Ukraine.
  — Nils Adler, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• After this, the teaser shows DeSorbo wiping tears away from her eyes.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Video footage showed rescuers sifting through rubble, wreckage of a car and an apartment building with balconies torn away from the wall.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Jenna later wiped tears away while watching a clip of her dad and his onscreen father (Michael Madsen).
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• One city suggests tearing away contaminated parts and a few cities don't want the pizza box at all.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Chupa attempts to connect the journey of the baby Chupacabra who has been torn away from his family to Alex’s recent loss of his father.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The device was stuck to the end of the pole with Velcro; if a person got the device successfully suctioned onto a swimming animal's back, the Velcro would tear away.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
• Spacey, 64, wiped tears away after the jury verdict was delivered at London’s Southwark Crown Court.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• The new study suggests that the Indian plate is plunging under the Eurasian plate, but as that process plays out, part of it is splitting apart under Tibet, with the eastern half of the slab tearing away from the western portion.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Shortly after Chaudhry delivered this line, Majors appeared to cry and started dabbing tears away with a tissue.
  — Vulture, 14 Dec. 2023
• One woman was found topless, and her jean shorts had been hiked up unusually high and were torn away, partially revealing her injured and bloodied groin.
  — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
• The burst tore away the jet’s auxiliary power unit and a major portion of its vertical stabilizer fin, including the rudder.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• The adult chimp was born into captivity at a lab specializing in HIV and hepatitis research and was torn away from her mother shortly after birth.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
• And these are folded postcards that have a correspondence letter-pressed from her onto one part of the card, and the other half is perforated to encourage folks to tear away that postcard section and write their own to someone else.
  — oregonlive, 16 June 2021
• Covington tore away a potential touchdown catch from new wide receiver Dorian Singer and came away with a red zone interception.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• The molecules in that coating contain two types of silver ions that work together to tear away at the bacteria's walls, destroying its genetic material.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2020
• In the intervening years since Russia sought to tear away Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, veterans and civilian groups created clubs and training courses to share their experiences with others.
  — Sam Skove, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• This was driven in large part by the Russian meddling in Western elections, and the dawning understanding that a series of cyberattacks can cumulatively tear away at the fabric of democratic society.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2022
• Bob Woodward peruses a well-thumbed manuscript, its blue paper cover threatening to tear away from the metal clasps precariously holding it together.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• With yesterday’s incident, according to Reuters, passenger photos suggest the section of fuselage torn away is sometimes used for an optional rear door—usually by budget airlines that require more evacuation paths due to having more seats.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024