How to Use to shreds in a Sentence

to shreds

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• In a moment it was torn to shreds.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
• Their self-esteem will be built up rather than torn to shreds.
  — Varsha Patel, refinery29.com, 16 July 2024
• What if that paper is ripped to shreds when the lights shine brightest though?
  — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 26 July 2026
• It’s torn to shreds, and the collar is flipped open and just dangling in the wind.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Her feet would be torn to shreds by the end of the day, covered in dust and debris.
  — Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Low trees jabbed out at every angle, ripping his thin clothes to shreds.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
• The fabric that serves as the domed stadium’s roof was ripped to shreds by the fierce winds.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
• Ripping it to shreds and putting it in the garbage could be a good substitution.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
• Their attacking thrusts sliced the Serbians to shreds.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• Photos show the massive gaps where the fabric that served as the domed building's roof had been ripped to shreds.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024
• The other side of that coin is that a person might mentally rip themselves to shreds.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• By now, most if not all of your March Madness brackets have likely been torn to shreds.
  — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 23 Mar. 2026
• People are expendable, but no one wants to see a service animal torn to shreds by aliens.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 June 2024
• Jordan is heard yelling in the video as the truck's exterior is blasted to shreds by the fast moving train.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 June 2023
• Keep talking and nobody gets torn to shreds by a monster or teleported into a concrete wall.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• No one wants to tear their fresh fillets to shreds, and there’s no surer way to do so than going at them with an inferior blade.
  — Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• The black hole's gravity rips the star to shreds, resulting in a huge burst of radiation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Photos shared across social media show the nose cone ripped to shreds, revealing the radar equipment that hides behind it.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• Bo and Hector escape before the creature rips their former colleagues to shreds.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• The small blade, meanwhile, handles more delicate sampler bags without tearing them to shreds.
  — New Atlas, 16 Nov. 2025
• At the outset of the novel, fellowship within the house of Karamazov has been torn to shreds.
  — Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
• Softening the point of entry is one piece of the puzzle, as is buffering the sheer humiliation of watching your army get ripped to shreds.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 11 Dec. 2021
• The resulting anger is aimed at far more than those eight senators, though their deal to reopen the government is getting torn to shreds by the rest of the party.
  — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2025
• Do your big dreams seem to get torn to shreds with either confusion around how to bring them into reality, or lack of support from the collective?
  — Amy Solara, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2021
• Plenty of owners will have walked into a room to find their favorite belongings chewed to shreds, leaving them not mad, just disappointed.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
• Then sit back and watch the Swifties unleash their fury and tear to shreds the Gordian knot that was once catastrophic global warming.
  — Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• As obligate carnivores with ferocious teeth, big cats were both motivated and equipped to rip primates to shreds.
  — Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
• Within a light-year of that merger, anything caught by the waves would be torn to shreds as the competing gravitational forces overwhelmed them.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• The underbelly of an already inconsistent relief corps was torn to shreds, yielding a seven-spot in a train wreck of a fifth inning.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• And then periodically, Bertha and/or George will swoop in to absolutely tear one or more of them to shreds.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023