How to Use rip apart in a Sentence

rip apart

phrasal verb

• The ship spun and fell against the rocks, which gouged and ripped apart the hull.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The water ripped apart a two-lane road and fences that ran across the top of the dam.
  — Jan M. Olsen, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Her entire world has just been ripped apart and ripped at the seams.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
• His penance is to pray the rosary — and then rip apart a pillow in the church belfry.
  — Will Swaim, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024
• Tetiana’s leg was ripped apart, and a bullet had torn through his arm.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Its wall was ripped apart and thrown into the river bed.
  — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
• With each pass, the star lost more mass while being slowly ripped apart.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Some residents there for months had to camp in tents on the spots where Ian ripped apart their homes.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• The album sold poorly, and it was ripped apart by critics.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• Their lives were ripped apart in one of the deadliest and most destructive wars of the 21st century.
  — Samar Abu Elouf Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• As Marvel aggressively expanded in the 2020s to fill the Disney+ pipeline, the seams began to show — and then rip apart.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• And seeing that getting broken down and broken down and broken down and ripped apart a little bit.
  — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
• In that constrained space, Powers imagined the wails of families ripped apart, the smells, the bellow of an auctioneer.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
• This was moments after a war in which many homes were ripped apart beyond repair or belief.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• That’s exactly what happened in Europe this weekend, when the nose of an Airbus jet was ripped apart by an icy storm.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• Over the weekend, several roads and other structures were ripped apart.
  — Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir Bloomberg (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• Every single facet of their society has been ripped apart.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
• Wisely, the directing and producing team (Downey Jr. is a producer) hands him the drapes, the carpet, and the entire household to rip apart.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
• That’s actually putting it lightly; his shoelace was ripped apart.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• Trump has built a brand by ripping apart his opponents in politics, court and business.
  — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
• When a star is ripped apart by the gravitational forces of a black hole, what is left of the star is heated so much by the intensity of those forces that a flare occurs.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023
• Many of the children who participated were from countries ripped apart by conflict and war.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 27 July 2023
• And when tragedy strikes, their family is ripped apart by sadness and uncertainty.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
• Buildings are ripped apart, like Lego structures under a toddler’s onslaught.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 14 July 2024
• Their lives were ripped apart by a shooting at a political event 13 years earlier in Arizona.
  — Sean Holstege, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2024
• Kalamazoo County’s Portage area was hard hit as a FedEx facility was ripped apart and more than a dozen mobile homes were destroyed.
  — George Walker Iv, Joey Cappelletti, and Ed White, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
• Kalamazoo County's Portage area was hard hit as a FedEx facility was ripped apart and more than a dozen mobile homes were destroyed.
  — CBS News, 8 May 2024
• Because only a woman can love until she’s ripped apart; can speak with the most brutal honesty; can sing with anger; dance in ecstasy and be brought to tears with emotion.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 8 May 2023
• Photographs meanwhile show ed walkie-talkie devices that had been ripped apart during the explosions.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
• Once the chalky fungal plug is ripped apart, the infected and disemboweled cicada flies around, raining down fluffy, brown spores.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024