How to Use on a tear in a Sentence

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  • British hip-hop is on a tear right now – both at home and further afield.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 July 2023
  • Nvidia’s stock has been on a tear, soaring almost 139% over the past year.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • Juhász was on a tear to start the afternoon, scoring 10 of UConn’s first 17 points.
    Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Center Le Roux Malan has been on a tear, scoring at least once in each of the last two games.
    Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • There are several signs that the market is, at least for now, on a tear.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 June 2023
  • The stock market is on a tear, and investors face a tricky question: Will the rally last?
    Joe Rennison, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • In this sequence, there’s a little highlight on a tear that drips.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
  • After missing four games with a hand injury, Sarvis has been on a tear.
    Paul Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Even before his party learns its midterm fate, the ex-president is on a tear.
    Byrick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This year, however, the club seems to be on a tear and is leading the Western Conference.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
  • The stock has been on a tear lately, soaring 40% since the start of June and setting a new record for the number of consecutive days in the green.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • The Morehead State transfer has been on a tear of late, scoring in double figures in each of Auburn’s last nine games.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Messi has been on a tear, providing highlight plays with eight goals scored in five games.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Second baseman Marcus Semien — on a tear since the start of the Houston series — went 2 for 3 with two runs scored and two driven in.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Tesla’s woes are on a tear but that doesn’t mean the world’s most valuable automaker is stopping.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
  • And more people than ever are in Antarctica because tourism is on a tear.
    Sara Clemence, The Atlantic, 3 July 2023
  • After a strong winter for Licey of the Dominican League, Andujar has opened camp on a tear.
    Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Shares of megacap tech companies have been on a tear this year, with Nvidia’s stock more than tripling and Tesla’s more than doubling.
    WSJ, 24 July 2023
  • His successor, Love, is on a tear, with 21 touchdown passes and one interception in the past nine games.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • An answer, too late Indiana did its best to atone for those first-half sins after the break, exiting the locker room on a tear that turned into a 17-7 run.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The narrative of the stock market over the past couple of weeks is clear: Magnificent Seven are imploding, while small caps are on a tear.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 26 July 2024
  • The indexes had been on a tear since Fed Chair Jerome Powell opened the door to the possibility of lower interest rates.
    Joe Wallace, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Sophomores Travis Bazzana and Garret Forrester enter the series on a tear, having combined for 11 hits in their last 16 at bats.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Still, Hollywood studios and streaming platforms have been on a tear with video game adaptations these past few years.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The job market has been on a tear for the last 18 months as companies shook off pandemic pauses and welcomed workers back into the office.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • But Brownsburg can hit, too, and entered the championship game on a tear, having totaled 23 runs over its past two postseason games.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2023
  • Top Indian actor and emerging producer Taapsee Pannu is on a tear with a welter of projects lined up.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Shares of Apple have been on a tear, as artificial intelligence hype and a flight to defensive mega-cap tech stocks have helped the stock soar nearly 46% this year.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 30 June 2023
  • That’s because aggressive oil supply cuts in Saudi Arabia and Russia and deadly flooding in Libya have sent crude prices on a tear.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The Massachusetts economy has been on a tear over the past several months, but is the remarkable stretch of job growth reaching its limit?
    Robert Gavin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023

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