How to Use teardown in a Sentence

teardown

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• Step 9 of the teardown shows soft glue pulling away as the base is lifted off the site.
  — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
• For the cost of an L.A. teardown, why not buy a historic castle in France?
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• The couple did not even entertain the idea of a teardown.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• The offensive line has been up-and-down, but the Vikings don’t need a complete teardown in that area.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• As with prior teardowns, the site gave the phone a repair rating.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2019
• This is not the first time that building disputes have led to demands for a teardown.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
• The veterans who survived the teardown are in their prime.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
• Across Charlotte, the teardowns show no signs of slowing.
  — Ely Portillo and Gavin Off, charlotteobserver, 19 July 2017
• And the Astros have again risen after a teardown of their roster that broke Navarette's heart.
  — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
• The three wood buildings that cater to the needs of boat owners and house some storefronts are also teardowns.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• But the rise of teardowns isn’t just because of old-fashioned bathrooms.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• Reza said that the teardown-worthy condition of the property was one of the things that drew him.
  — Kavita Daswani, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• When the home was listed—and marketed as a teardown—Mr.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• The teardown of the current facility could open up about 30 acres of land.
  — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Popovich, who is 69 and probably will not be around to reap the rewards of a complete teardown, is one.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
• The Jazz have completed a total teardown of their team.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• The debate is likely to persist, as the pace of teardowns and rebuilds shows no sign of abating.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 25 Oct. 2017
• But this front office went for a long-term teardown anyway.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• But the Forsythe move stood alone — one the front office saw a one-off trade of talent for talent — and the large-scale teardown never came.
  — Dave Sheinin, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
• Other would-be buyers viewed the modest old house as a teardown.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• Bourgoin’s story wasn’t so much a house of cards as a total teardown.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Finally, two years too late, Hahn began a teardown of a bad club.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Certainly, the Orioles’ rebuild has a long way to go; heck, the teardown still isn’t complete.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• That was a polite way of saying his swing didn’t need a few splashes of fresh paint or a kitchen remodel, but a teardown to the studs.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
• The roughly 9,000-square-foot home is in good condition but could be a teardown, as many homes in the area are larger and more modern.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 26 June 2019
• The Pacers’ first-round pick in 2015 has remained with the team from playoff seasons to its most recent teardown.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2022
• One player — much less an 18-year-old — cannot end a total teardown rebuild like this.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
• These days, properties on Meadow Lane sell in the tens of millions; a teardown on the strip sold for $35 million last year, records show.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• Worth noting: There's not a lot the city can do about teardowns the way existing building codes are written, Addison says.
  — Karri Peifer, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
• Apple’s latest iPhones have just gone on sale and already there’s been a teardown which reveals new battery design inside, and also confirms great news: that the iPhone 16 Pro battery is bigger, and by how much.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024

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tear down

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• The field was torn down in 1958, after the team was sold.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The craze had cooled off; many of the giants were torn down and tossed aside.
  — Conor Knighton, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Highland Drive house was torn down about a month ago.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The school will tear down low-rise apartments that have served UCSD since the mid-1970s.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• In 2019, a group tore down the street relaxing on a leather loveseat on wheels.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• Today, most of the old windmills have been torn down or left to rust out on the prairie.
  — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
• Casinos have been torn down, built back up, bought and sold.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Later, these tractors would be used to tear down the fence and open the way for Hamas’s death squads.
  — Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Evil Empire, Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, that whole thing.
  — Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2024
• When the hotel was torn down, much of the lumber was sold to be used in building houses in the area.
  — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• The tribe tore down the building and removed the parking lot in favor of a grassland.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
• The smaller Copco No. 2 Dam was torn down last year as the project began.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• In August of 1978, the original sign was torn down, and the hillside was bare for three months.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The pitch and irrigation from that venue are still in place, though the structure was torn down.
  — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• My cutout of that has a tear down the middle from being weathered and treasured.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2021
• These doors have been broken down, not open, but torn down to be held open for the next ones to come and more stories to be told the right way.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 July 2024
• How can anyone prove, skeptics ask, that a forest would have been torn down if not for the project?
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• The Burger King closed several years ago and the building has since been torn down.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• In 2010, part of the cliff fell out from under an apartment building, which had to be abandoned and then torn down.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• In their grief, Grigg's family decided to tear down the post office and leave the town.
  — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• It was then shot over 27 days at an empty school that was about to be torn down in Hamburg, Germany.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• The tearing down of posters of hostages kidnapped by Hamas belies reason.
  — Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• The Stars and Stripes ripples through the night sky at a local rodeo before a tornado tears down the middle of it.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• But over time, those houses were torn down and replaced with larger dwellings.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2023
• Housing projects just east of the L.A. River where Saenz once lived — and allegedly killed — had been torn down.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
• The three-story house in Moscow, Idaho, was torn down in under two hours.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Hall Group tore down smaller buildings to make way for the new construction.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• In the viral video, the pair can be seen tearing down the drywall to expose the original wooden beams.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Eventually the shoulders were paved and the stairways torn down as the bus plan never took hold.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2023
• And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024