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305 examples of Ripped in a sentence

People have been buying and wearing ripped jeans for years.
And I think what it is is I don't think we have fully come to terms with the meaning of this disaster, with what it meant to witness a hole ripped in our world, with what it meant to watch the contents of the Earth gush forth on live TV, 24 hours a day, for months.
Her face was dirty and tearstained; her shirt was ripped and covered in blood.
I lived nearly two years without heat, woke up out of a dead sleep multiple times to gunshots, was attacked by a pack of wild dogs and ripped my kitchen cabinets from an abandoned school as they were actively tearing that school down.
The poor little Molas coming in, getting ripped to shreds, so we head down south, to San Diego.
So DNA comes in and hits this blue, doughnut-shaped structure and it's ripped apart into its two strands.
"Inside this envelope is the ripped up remains of a suicide note I didn't use.
After an EF3 tornado ripped straight through our town and took parts of our roof off, I decided to stay in Massachusetts, instead of pursuing the master's program I had moved my boxes home that afternoon for.
In fact, we ripped down the galleries to recreate entirely different settings, a recreation of his first studio, a hall of mirrors, a curiosity box, a sunken ship, a burned-out interior, with videos and soundtracks that ranged from operatic arias to pigs fornicating.
My whole right side was ripped open, filled with gravel.
They'd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ship's hull.
Wealth is ripped away from people who shouldn't be called unproductive.
So what we have, then, when you think about the fiscal cliff, don't think of it as the American people fundamentally can't stand each other on these issues and that we must be ripped apart into two separate warring nations.
I'm not looking to create a world where our inner lives are ripped open and our personal data and our privacy given away to people and entities where we don't want to see it go.
How about never — is never good for you?" It's been reprinted thousands of times, totally ripped off.
He lived in constant fear every day that his precious, tattered motorcycle would be ripped away from him, as it had before.
In 1963, a storm ripped up the harbor in a small South African town called East London, and while he was watching his kids playing with toys made from oxen bones called dolosse, he had the idea for this.
I met a monkey named Boonlua, and when Boonlua was a baby, he was attacked by a pack of dogs, and they ripped off both of his legs and one arm, and Boonlua dragged himself to a monastery, where the monks took him in.
The Hurricanes Georges and Mitch had ripped through the Caribbean and Central America, leaving 30,000 dead and two and a half million homeless.
Aspiring to the chiseled jaw lines and ripped six packs of superhero-like sports stars and playboy music artists.
For the last 20 years, I've been working in countries and cities ripped apart by conflict, violence, terrorism, or some insidious combination of all.
The skin ripped off and we wondered why.
Ultraviolet rays down, hit the ice, bounced back, fried out the eyes, ripped off our faces.
It was extraordinary to see, for example, old women telling me the stories of when they were five years old and literally ripped away from their parents, like this lady here.
It's like we've ripped the humanity out of our companies.
This guy went up, went supersonic, ripped the fin can off.
And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up, and I made it into a sort of Agnes Martin grid, and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck.
But as the Congress ground to a halt and the country ripped at the seams and hope and change began to feel like a cruel joke, I knew that even the political second coming could not save me.
This is 600 billion dollars a year, and it's growing, and these people are getting ripped off.
As a new parent, I tell you, I am troubled by devastating images of young children being ripped out of the arms of their parents at the US border and being placed in private detention facilities that did too little to help the kids maintain contact with their parents.
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