How to Use asunder in a Sentence

asunder

adverb or adjective
  • Not even a messy divorce could tear them asunder.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Nothing shall tear this stone and snail asunder.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Once asunder, the spikes can no longer help the virus attach.
    — Megan Scudellari, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2022
  • At least eight people there died as the building was ripped asunder.
    — Travis Caldwell and Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • This crucial query has torn the show's fandom asunder for a decade-plus.
    — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Their people have been drawn together more than they have been pulled asunder.
    — The Economist, 12 June 2020
  • The soaring sharp needle of sung and played notes that tear us asunder and stitch us back together.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Our culture is ripped asunder, and there’s not a lot that holds us together anymore.
    — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Planets could be built, torn asunder and rebuilt in just 10 million years or less.
    — Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
  • Someday, in my opinion, and maybe soon, the Rajneesh cult will break asunder.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, these miserable souls come back to life and serve the Demigods who tore the land asunder.
    — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 26 Feb. 2022
  • But then Malik decided he was done with the band and everything was torn asunder.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 14 Sep. 2017
  • As the famed witticism goes, the best of plans can sometimes be set asunder upon first contact with abundant forces.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The division in the country where there were times where people were thinking the country was going to be torn asunder.
    — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Every time this happens, family members and friends of the victims have their lives torn asunder in an instant.
    — Alexander Tsai, STAT, 27 June 2018
  • Improvements can be dramatic and fast, just as the speed and strength of major college football can knock things asunder.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Some mighty tornado, or resistless cyclone, may rend its massive blocks asunder and hurl huge fragments to the ground.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Money and power and the death of the family icon can rip a family — and a football franchise — asunder.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2020
  • No engulfment, no tearing asunder.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Luckily, on Potomac, there’s still time for fun, even when it is tucked in between lawsuits and friendships torn asunder.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Somehow, though, the answers never add up, nor do the details that convincingly define a life torn asunder.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Twilight fans did not actually want to have their bodies ripped asunder by a super-strong fetus with a vampire for a father.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But Miral is still trying to imagine a future from a present that’s been torn asunder by death, destruction and absence.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • That tranquility is torn asunder one night when a stranger (Ed Harris) knocks on their door, thinking the place is a bed and breakfast.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The scrolling feeds on social media and the live updates on websites pull us together and yet, in the same moment, effortlessly cast us asunder.
    — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • In prior episodes of turmoil cities like New York have bounced back because their people have been drawn together more than they have been pulled asunder.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The republic tore itself asunder over slavery and conflicting views of the federal Union.
    — David W. Blight, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • One of the painful paradoxes of running a family restaurant is the way immigration tears the nuclear unit asunder.
    — Jiayang Fan, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • There's just a pervasive sense of loss, of lives torn asunder for no particular reason, and a cast highly adept at delivering these punches.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Within hours of the verdict, Los Angeles - already at a breaking point of racial division - would be torn asunder.
    — Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 22 June 2021

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