How to Use to shreds in a Sentence

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• It’s torn to shreds, and the collar is flipped open and just dangling in the wind.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• What is turning the leaves to shreds and is there a control?
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• Their self-esteem will be built up rather than torn to shreds.
  — Varsha Patel, refinery29.com, 16 July 2024
• Ripping it to shreds and putting it in the garbage could be a good substitution.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
• The other side of that coin is that a person might mentally rip themselves to shreds.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Low trees jabbed out at every angle, ripping his thin clothes to shreds.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
• Jordan is heard yelling in the video as the truck's exterior is blasted to shreds by the fast moving train.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 June 2023
• The black hole's gravity rips the star to shreds, resulting in a huge burst of radiation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Then sit back and watch the Swifties unleash their fury and tear to shreds the Gordian knot that was once catastrophic global warming.
  — Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• No one wants to tear their fresh fillets to shreds, and there’s no surer way to do so than going at them with an inferior blade.
  — Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• People are expendable, but no one wants to see a service animal torn to shreds by aliens.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 June 2024
• Photos shared across social media show the nose cone ripped to shreds, revealing the radar equipment that hides behind it.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• Bo and Hector escape before the creature rips their former colleagues to shreds.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• The family’s Christmas had been ripped to shreds by their toddler in only a few minutes — and the parents now had to race against time to put it all back together.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
• Softening the point of entry is one piece of the puzzle, as is buffering the sheer humiliation of watching your army get ripped to shreds.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 11 Dec. 2021
• Far from King’s Landing and Dragonstone, a pair of feuding clans use their split loyalties as an excuse to tear each other to shreds.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 June 2024
• And then periodically, Bertha and/or George will swoop in to absolutely tear one or more of them to shreds.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• Instead of a relatively close up view of homes and businesses ripped to shreds, the Landsat 9 image reveals the scar gouged out of the landscape by one of the March 24 tornadoes.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Thankfully, the season 4 premiere panned to the smoky building and showed Beth walking out, albeit charred and disoriented, with her clothes ripped to shreds.
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 13 Nov. 2021
• But Boston’s stout zone defensive structure has also been clawed to shreds by the Panthers, headlined by Friday’s shootout.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Magic Johnson did not rip the Washington Commanders to shreds.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Do your big dreams seem to get torn to shreds with either confusion around how to bring them into reality, or lack of support from the collective?
  — Amy Solara, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2021
• The underbelly of an already inconsistent relief corps was torn to shreds, yielding a seven-spot in a train wreck of a fifth inning.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Instead of plushies that will be ripped to shreds and spray stuffing all over your house, Super Chewer promises only heavy-duty toys with rubber or nylon cores.
  — Kalea Martin, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2023
• The new Bounty is strong when wet too, so chores like washing a window and scrubbing a carpet stain that can tear regular paper towels to shreds are no match for Bounty.
  — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
• Those factors include warm ocean temperatures, which help feed tropical storms, and low wind shear, which allows a storm to retain its structure rather than be torn to shreds.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
• When a star is in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole—perhaps pushed there by the gravitational nudging of another nearby star—the intense tidal forces can rip it to shreds.
  — Neil Gehrels, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2017
• An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• Later, when the two are verbally tearing each other to shreds away from the guests, Shiv accuses Tom of depriving her of having a relationship with her father in the last months of Logan’s life.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• The app launched Friday anyway and was immediately ripped to shreds by the Internet for many security issues.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024