How to Use rip up in a Sentence

rip up

verb
  • Passersby have ripped up whole plants for their own yards.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
  • Tat's came out with a black A-shirt that was all ripped up.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Walston ripped up the card and let the shreds fall on Penn.
    — Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Mats are ripped up, power planers are set down.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This year, the new man in charge is ripping up the blueprint.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Bonus time if your kiddo can rip up the paper themselves.
    — Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Tait's boyfriend Erik rips up the carpet in the viral video.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But so far, neither side is ready to rip up its late-game strategy.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t worry — the monster trucks won’t be ripping up the blue turf.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Trump ripped up that deal in 2018 and has been obsessed with besting it with his own.
    — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • If ripping up the floors is not an option, Quinton suggests adding a towel warmer.
    — Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Govan, through sheer force of will, has decided to rip up the entire idea of what a museum can be.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Already on edge from a rough morning, John rips up the TV deal and throws it in Berman’s face.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Ordinarily, the advice would be to rip up your team to triple-up on the clubs with two fixtures, but this time around, things maybe aren’t as clear-cut.
    — Holly Shand, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • When money is guaranteed for cap, the player is entitled to that money if the team rips up the agreement to create cap space.
    — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • After the World Cup ends, most cities will immediately rip up their gigantic new lawns.
    — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Flyers explaining how residents could receive free nitrate tests had been removed from the truck and ripped up, lying in pieces on the street just a few feet away.
    — Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Imagine the time and money that would be required to rip up every block of Beijing, Boston, or Buenos Aires.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Even with the seats ripped up in rows and the bleachers bent and cracked into pieces along the lower part of the bowl as the dismantling and sell off gets underway, the place just emanates history.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Now, the New York City Department of Transportation has to cease its work and rip up what's already done.
    — Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • One and done My plan for this week was to use Morikawa, and that plan was ripped up with one practice driver swing at the Players Championship.
    — Dennis Esser, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Even though the Twins ripped up their roster last July, Zoll acknowledged the team waited until the last minute to make the decision.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 18 June 2026
  • The Rose Garden renovation, which involved ripping up sod and replacing it with a stone, had been going on all summer.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • After all, nowhere else in the NFL are 49ers players regularly stealing and ripping up signs made by the home crowd.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • On Trip’s advice, Frank seeks refuge at One Well, ripping up Donald’s last will and testament during the ride over.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • To expand the pipe network, about half requires ripping up sidewalks, while the rest can be installed in the existing sewage grid, meaning that new clients can sometimes be connected in less than a year.
    — Francois De Beaupuy, Fortune, 28 June 2026
  • When Samp went 2-0 up at the Arechi, Salernitana fans ripped up their seats and threw them onto the pitch below, forcing an abandonment.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In April, Allen Gallaway’s home in Andover, Kansas, was one block away from getting ripped up by a tornado roaring like a freight train.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
  • For starters, the absurd rule that sends a half-point to each side if a player is too injured to compete should be the last thing ripped up and thrown in the trash before everyone says goodbye to Bethpage Black.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Yet again though, Bosnia ripped up the script, converting all four of their spot-kicks as Pio Esposito and Bryan Cristante missed the target for Italy.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026

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