How to Use rip apart in a Sentence

rip apart

verb
  • Then, their home was ripped apart.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The biker was sent hurtling through the air as his vehicle ripped apart.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 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
  • Terrified that their families were going to get ripped apart.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 24 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Any sense that the relationship between the Dane and the fans had been repaired by the win in Frankfurt or the draw with Manchester City has been ripped apart again.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Families were ripped apart, with most, including mothers with children and the elderly, sent straight to death in gas chambers that at their peak murdered 6,000 people a day.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Delaware Avenue in Glassport is shut down and ripped apart as crews try to fix a gas line that has frozen four times in two weeks — all during a stretch of extreme cold following the major winter storm.
    — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Penn is more concerned with creating the ambience of a local community ripped apart by devastating crimes than constructing a straightforward thriller.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
  • The flight of a third of the country’s population ripped apart families and has shaped the cultural and political landscape in the dozens of nations where Venezuelans have settled.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Other sources for asteroid activity include breakup when an asteroid spins too fast, tidal forces ripping apart asteroids during close encounters with a planet, or gas release.
    — Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The sounds and images of heavy construction equipment ripping apart one of the most historic places in the United States, though, have put the White House on the defensive.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Eric Pierwsza, 48, allegedly used a Kubota excavator to rip apart the rear of the family's home.
    — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Because where else but here would a mother (played by a game Pamela Anderson) die at the hands of wild wolves, ripped apart in a forest near the family’s opulent Catalonian home?
    — David Opie, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2026
  • All Her Fault’s short-term gratification is in those big tell-off scenes, the moments Marissa and Jenny get to rip apart men who refuse to take any ownership over their actions.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025

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