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Example sentences for tear

Here you can find a large assortment of example sentences for the word tear, or in other words sentences that can help you learn how to use tear in a sentence. Learning how to use a word in a sentences can be very helpful, for example when it comes to learning how to use the word in a sentence, in which context the word can be used as well as to learn the true meaning of the word "tear".

Tear in a sentence

Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word tear in a sentence.


  1. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!


  2. The hamstring tear turned out to be acute.


  3. Could not a hurricane come and tear up this ice?


  4. The beak is hooked, and adapted to tear rotting meat.


  5. They followed her to the grave on which no one shed a tear.


  6. The military police responded with tear gas to disperse them.


  7. The police shot tear gas into the crowd and trampled protesters.


  8. Police fired tear gas shells towards the gate to warn the students.


  9. Using its bill to tear, it makes the initial cut in a fresh carcass.


  10. This wear and tear can make identification of juveniles more difficult.


  11. Six waves of ARVN tear gas and attack dogs failed to disperse the crowd.


  12. He willingly gave his life to tear down barriers to freedom of others.".


  13. He had been known to weep at men's graves—as well as tear their hides off.


  14. Even its shadows are lightened with a laugh or a sweetly sentimental tear ..


  15. Some varieties of French tear gas contained phosgene oxime or hydrogen cyanide.


  16. Mounts must be flexible, as the sheets can tear under sharp changes in humidity.


  17. In less than four hours, they cleared the Bonus Army's campground using tear gas.


  18. This would result, he thought, in costly maintenance and excessive wear and tear.


  19. Rit struggled to keep her family together as slavery threatened to tear it apart.


  20. The site housed a decrepit hotel; Pei was invited to tear it down and build a new one.


  21. This provokes Caiaphas to tear his own robe in anger and to accuse Jesus of blasphemy.


  22. Nhu's men were armed with pistols, submachine guns, carbines, shotguns, grenades and tear gas.


  23. Povill credited Nimoy with the single tear scene, and the discussion of V'Ger's need to evolve.


  24. As people ran to avoid the tear gas, some in the crowd pushed a driverless truck toward the jail.


  25. Thanks to a carefully planned timetable, the effects of wear and tear had been kept to a minimum.


  26. The powdered lime in the bombs at Caishi generated a cloud of blinding smoke similar to tear gas.


  27. These points can be used as "pseudo-claws" to tear large pieces of food in the loggerhead's mouth.


  28. There had been a protest, demonstrators had thrown stones, and the IDF had responded with tear gas.


  29. The bristles were about 3.8 cm (1.5 in) in length and were used to tear seaweed stalks and hold food.


  30. Along with police tear gas canisters, Winch successfully negotiated the withdrawal of the unemployed.


  31. Her body was found with a large tear through her groin area and superficial cuts on her legs and back.


  32. There the squadron was equipped with steel helmets and gas masks and training in the tear gas chamber.


  33. Cugat affixed reclining nudes within the flapper's irises and added a green tint to the streaming tear.


  34. He liked the Tall-Nut's character, citing its "determined gaze" and its shedding a single tear when hurt.


  35. The book's cover is itself a trompe l'oeil, the painting visible through an illusionary tear in the paper.


  36. The van Berkel pavilion was temporarily closed for repairs August 10–14, due to unanticipated wear and tear.


  37. The seriema also has an enlarged second toe claw, and uses it to tear apart small prey items for swallowing.


  38. A bird's feathers undergo wear and tear and are replaced periodically during the bird's life through molting.


  39. This creates a tear which they gradually rip more and more until the opening is sufficient to admit the penis.


  40. There was no Whig platform—the party leaders decided that trying to put one together would tear the party apart.


  41. They suggested that Baryonyx mainly used its forelimbs and large claws to catch, kill and tear apart larger prey.


  42. Ostfriesland turned away, which caused the torpedo bulkhead, damaged slightly by the mine explosion, to tear open.


  43. Apart from physical wear and tear, feathers face the onslaught of fungi, ectoparasitic feather mites and bird lice.


  44. The unloading craft were frequently overloaded, increasing wear and tear, and occasionally causing them to capsize.


  45. To save wear and tear, they were towed across Seeadler Harbour by LCMs and cut loose for the final run in to shore.


  46. The injury, which abruptly ended his season, was a partial ligament tear in his elbow that required Tommy John surgery.


  47. Bostock arrived on Morotai the next day and interviewed the pilots, asking them to tear up the letters, without success.


  48. Student officials had enough warning to clear the area and tear down the Bonfire one week before its scheduled burn date.


  49. After impaling the victim's body with its tusks, the elephant would "then tear it in pieces, and throw it limb from limb".


  50. Entering with guns drawn and tear gas grenades at the ready, the law enforcement force captured Machita without a shot fired.


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Synonyms for tear

Another way to better understand how a word can be used is to examine what synonyms it has, and how these synonyms can be used. For example, the word tear has the following synonyms: bust, binge, bout, rip, rent, snag, split, teardrop, pluck, pull, deplume, deplumate, displume, rupture, snap, tear up, tear apart, tear down, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck and shoot up.

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