How to Use rip apart in a Sentence

rip apart

verb

• Then, their home was ripped apart.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
• Squirrels will rip apart cushions to get to the creamy center.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
• That has stifled storm chances and ripped apart storms like Dolly.
  — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
• The biker was sent hurtling through the air as his vehicle ripped apart.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
• Wind shear tends to rip apart or hinder development of a storm.
  — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026
• One of the boys had turned back to the crowd, face skin twisted around wild eyes, red cheeks about to rip apart from the rictus.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
• The fourth gate opens, and with it, Hawkins is ripped apart by the Upside Down.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
• Doctors spent six hours putting back together what took the grizzly a moment to rip apart.
  — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
• Terrified that their families were going to get ripped apart.
  — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
• Ameling and her business partner found safety in a nearby storefront and watched as their sales area was ripped apart.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2026
• People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart.
  — Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
• Deep, iron-rich mantle rocks were pushed toward the surface over millions of years as plates first ripped apart and then collided.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
• That shear tends to rip apart hurricane development.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
• The second phase occurs much later, potentially years after the star has been ripped apart.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
• Footage from the city shows many multistory buildings completely flattened and others ripped apart by blasts.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
• School buses were ripped apart and burned in Times Square during what was supposed to be a joyous occasion.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 June 2026
• Others are also working toward justice for the families ripped apart.
  — ABC News, 28 May 2026
• Photos shared by the fire marshal showed seats inside the boat scattered and ripped apart, though the outside of the vessel remained intact.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
• Rather than generate hype, the AI film has been ripped apart as a clear sign of his decline — the pièce de résistance in his fall from grace.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 July 2026
• At first glance, the house parked on a muddy lot along a residential street not far from City Hall looks like it has been ripped apart right down the middle.
  — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026
• Her group said that, as of Wednesday evening, more than 50 arrests had ripped apart 40 families, and many others were hiding in fear.
  — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026
• This, coupled with the fact that the Whippet had an extremely high temperature, led to the conclusion that this event was sparked by a black hole ripping apart a star.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
• Individuals deserve due process, and families especially should not be ripped apart while simply dropping their children off at school.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
• The hypothesis is that the object that has recently been ripped apart by the white dwarf could have originated from this debris disk of material that survived the death of the star.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• Tottenham was beaten 2-0 at home by Newcastle, a week on from being ripped apart in a 3-0 loss at Brentford.
  — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
• Concealing pregnancies while being used as slave labor Families were ripped apart upon arrival at Auschwitz.
  — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
• Communities are ripped apart, families are trapped in a downward doom spiral, and a certain encounter between an infected mother and her son proves that nothing left is sacred.
  — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
• The Mineral Wells storm blew through an industrial park, shredding buildings, ripping apart roofs and scattering debris across the area.
  — S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
• This administration is ripping apart American families—that is wrong.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
• In Iran’s second-largest city, Mashhad, protesters were able to tear down and rip apart the flag of the Islamic Republic in the city square.
  — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026