How to Use ripper in a Sentence

ripper

noun

• Greer tied the game on a ripper of a shot at 1:30 of the second period.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Kids Trucker hat looks cool, too, so your little ripper will fit right in with the rest of the crew.
  — Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2019
• Cut the handles off your NWPP sheets or use a seam ripper to take them out.
  — Alden Wicker, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
• Rask surrendered an Ovechkin ripper from the slot that no goalie would have stopped.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• There are soft finger grips that are located on both ends of the seam ripper.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 May 2021
• Her 8-month-old daughter is perhaps the youngest artist in the room, and an expert paper ripper.
  — Agatha French, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• This ripper from High ’n’ Dry is barely three minutes long but doesn’t give an inch.
  — Christa Titus, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
• This news would make any fan of the bodice-ripper excited — even the likes of Lady Whistledown.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• But there was never a face-ripper of a crash over this entire period.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2019
• Each one, to a fault, is lovestruck by snow, deeply introspective about their life choices, and a ripper.
  — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2021
• This seam ripper is purple and white to give you easy identification.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 May 2021
• In less than two months, Outlander is returning to the small screen, and now Starz has released the first full-length look at what's in store for everyone's favorite time-traveling bodice-ripper.
  — Emily Wang, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2018
• No matter your age, stage or skill level, the local rippers seem especially chill and give equal time to flailing outsiders.
  — Barbara Odanaka, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• However, if the hair does get stuck, Homer suggests using either a safety letter opener or a seam ripper.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
• These days, Chojnicka relies on a seam ripper, an instrument used by sewers to rip out stitches.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• Established pros frequently put on a show, along with pint-sized rippers and their silver-haired counterparts.
  — Barbara Odanaka, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• This sewing machine also includes a few accessories, such as a needle set, seam ripper, five different feet, and a dust cover.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
• The sewing machine also includes accessories like four presser feet, bobbins, needles, a seam ripper, and a darner plate.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2023
• The kit comes with a good variety of basics including needles, threads, scissors, buttons, a thimble, a needle threader, and a seam ripper.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2020
• The brouhaha contains all the elements of a steamy bodice-ripper: Passion, promises, and allegations of deception and lies.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
• She’s in high demand, though, so for the rest of us, there’s Taos’s new pro-guided experience, where a local ripper will show you secret stashes and the best way to get your tails into the fall line on the double blacks off West Basin Ridge.
  — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2021
• Its CB Steep Guides program allows mid-to-advanced rippers to take advantage of the mountain’s steep bowls, tight tree lines, and chutes, which mimic the backcountry but are still patrolled in case things get real.
  — Candice Rainey, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
• The Piano, a bodice-ripper set in her native New Zealand and so considered exotic, maybe romantic.
  — Armond White, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
• The machine also has geo-fencing technology, so parents can allow little rippers to wander off-road, but not too far off.
  — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The surprise play George pulled off earlier this month was certified by a court, designed by a seam ripper, needle and thread, and executed by number 76, himself.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2019
• Local rippers patiently give way to wide-eyed newcomers.
  — Barbara Odanaka, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• The resulting book reads like a bodice-ripper romance crossed with Judith Krantz, with plenty of feminist and multicultural seasoning thrown in to update the mix.
  — Tina Jordan, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Sandpaper ripper Everybody has a different take on this thing.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
• In celebration of all things Australian, Billboard has selected 17 little rippers to get some sunshine into your life.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2017
• One reason police failed to arrest Sutcliffe earlier was because senior officers were misled by a hoax tape and letters from someone claiming to be the ripper.
  — Bloomberg.com, 13 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024