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Example sentences for tear up

Here you can find a large assortment of example sentences for the word tear up, or in other words sentences that can help you learn how to use tear up 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 up".

Tear up in a sentence

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

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

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

  3. Peter Lacy, his first lover, would often tear up the young artist's paintings, beat him up in drunken rages, and leave him on the street half-conscious.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen's_Fram_expedition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morotai_Mutiny, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych,_May–June_1973

Synonyms for tear up

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