How to Use tear it in a Sentence

tear it

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  • Those are the types of players who build winning chemistry rather than tear it apart.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • John Schneider is defending the flag against those who would tear it down.
    — Brie Stimson , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
  • Many fans clamored for the team to tear it down, trading most everyone and starting anew to build around Witt.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026
  • After his second apparent attempt to burn the photo, Williams tore it up and threw it into the street.
    — Charlie Carballo, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • Israeli soldiers then arrived in two vehicles and tore it down, but left the blue tarp canopy neatly folded on the ground rather than confiscating it.
    — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Taschen told the New York Times that others who bid on the property in 2018 intended to tear it down and rebuild.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The group’s co-founder, Donald Worth, began a mission to save the stadium in 2008, shortly after city officials at the time announced plans to tear it down.
    — David Fischer, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026
  • But beyond that, the anti-Houthi coalition must finally address the fissures that continue to tear it apart and agree on a credible political vision for resolving the Yemeni conflict.
    — April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The vocalist-guitarist, who has released several fine blues records during his award-winning career, tears it up on a regular basis at top clubs in San Francisco and his native San Jose.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • For pro wrestling fans tuning into AAA for the first time, Faby Apache and La Hiedra are two professional wrestlers tearing it up in Mexico.
    — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Brown has been tearing it up on the Korn Ferry Tour and has finished T18-or-better in six of his eight starts on the PGA TOUR this year.
    — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Not like brushing shoulders with Lil Baby and Lil Yachty is a musical death sentence (Veeze is still tearing it up), but for a rapper who specialized in free-flowing street sermons, that slight touch of formalism and structure depletes the vibe.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
  • About 250 pages of Caltrans records obtained by Abridged under the California Public Records Act revealed multiple instances in which unapproved concrete was poured, some of which required crews to tear it up and start over.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Bruins’ draftee and fellow Minnesotan Cooper Simpson, who tore it up with the USHL Youngstown Phantoms (34-40-74 in 61 games), is also headed to Grand Forks.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 5 July 2026

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