How to Use tear apart in a Sentence

tear apart

verb

• And now they're being torn apart.
  — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
• This album tore apart what people thought could come from punk.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 1 May 2026
• Not everyone has found the place so easy to tear apart, of course.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• Ponce said all the cars stolen and torn apart were Infinitis.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
• England were torn apart and were lucky to only lose 2-1.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• The state lawmaker said grommets were ripped out, and the flags torn apart at the seams.
  — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026
• The third question that could tear apart the deal is the Strait of Hormuz.
  — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 19 June 2026
• The cells of animals, plants, and fungi start their lives by being torn apart.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2026
• For more than 2 years, bombs fell, families were torn apart and people starved and froze to death.
  — The Know, Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2026
• My deportation was wrong, and my family should not have to be torn apart.
  — Mathew Miranda updated March 5, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• All of their lives have been improved by being on television, even for the ones whose lives were torn apart by it.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
• The building itself was then torn apart by builders scavenging stone, lead, glass and timber.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
• But after decades of living in the home, this family of five was recently torn apart.
  — Marissa Armas, CBS News, 29 June 2026
• The glass sliding door living room window broke too, and the deck outside was torn apart, the deck floor collapsing to the ground.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
• Whigs were outnumbered, however, and the party was soon torn apart by the issue of slavery.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 Mar. 2026
• Below, an adult brown bear stood vertically in the water, tearing apart its most recent catch.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
• That means operators may avoid tearing apart a facility to use it.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
• And the promise of comity was dramatically torn apart.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• The Underground Man is a man torn apart by contradictions.
  — Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
• Coon is torn apart when she feels compelled to leave her family behind, and again when her daughters try to intervene and retrieve her.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
• The administration’s threats force my children to grow up fearing their family can be torn apart.
  — Monica Rodriguez-Aguilera, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
• Blade Runner got torn apart by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.
  — Jimmy Chin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
• Physical stress limits how fast metal or carbon-fiber rotors can spin without tearing apart.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
• Immigrant families risk being torn apart every day.
  — Jose Bernal, Oc Register, 24 Feb. 2026
• Entire condominium buildings were damaged, units were torn apart and owners were displaced.
  — Michael P. Mayoral, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
• That’s because Iceland sits on a mid-ocean ridge, a vast seam where Earth’s crust tears apart and oceans grow in the expanding space between.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2026
• With sawdust on the asphalt and splintered wood on the hillside, one of the city’s most venerable trees was torn apart on Monday.
  — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• The kid sitcom turned global phenomenon tore apart the Cyrus family.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2026
• The sequence turns into a playful montage, but once the wash is over, the scorpion tail returns and tears apart the vehicle from the inside.
  — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
• Caldwell allegedly shoved the victim onto a bench, before tearing apart her hijab and pulling her pants down, court documents show.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026