Sentences with tear
tear
T t - Her eyes filled with tears.
- He was in floods of tears on the phone.
- Tear1 implies a pulling apart by force, so as to lacerate or leave ragged edges [to tear wrapping paper]; rip1 suggests a forcible tearing, especially along a seam or in a straight line [to rip a hem]; rend, a somewhat literary term, implies a tearing with violence [the tree was rent by a bolt of lightning]
- She very nearly tore my overcoat. [VERB noun]
- She tore the letter up. [VERB noun PREPOSITION]
- I peered through a tear in the van's curtains. [+ in]
- Canine teeth are for piercing and killing prey, and tearing flesh. [VERB noun]
- He tore a muscle in his right thigh. [VERB noun]
- She tore the windscreen wipers from his car. [VERB noun preposition]
- Female fans fought their way past bodyguards and tore at his clothes. [VERB + at]
- The door flew open and Miranda tore into the room. [VERB preposition/adverb]
- ...a country that has been torn by civil war and foreign invasion since its independence. [be VERB-ed + by]
- A tear of amber
- To tear a hole in a dress
- To tear along the street
- It tore at my heartstrings to see the starving child
- To tear a hole in a dress
- Skin torn and bruised
- Ranks torn by dissension
- A mind torn between duty and desire
- To tear a plant up by its roots, to tear oneself away
- The wind tore through the trees; cars tearing up and down the highway; I was tearing around all afternoon trying to find sandals for the beach.
- I'm so upset, I could just tear my hair out.
- To tear wrappings from a package; to tear a book from someone's hands.
- Anguish that tears the heart.
- A country torn by civil war.
- To tear a hole in one's coat.
- To be unable to tear oneself from a place.