How to Use teardown in a Sentence

teardown

1 of 2 noun
  • At one point, they were marked for teardown.
    — Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In practice, many new-build projects are, in fact, teardowns.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Here’s why a teardown should be an option of last resort.
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Step 9 of the teardown shows soft glue pulling away as the base is lifted off the site.
    — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Any form of teardown, though, is likely not an option.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • Namath believes the teardown can't come fast enough.
    — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • This is not the first time that building disputes have led to demands for a teardown.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
  • Other would-be buyers viewed the modest old house as a teardown.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • As with prior teardowns, the site gave the phone a repair rating.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Bourgoin’s story wasn’t so much a house of cards as a total teardown.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • But the rise of teardowns isn’t just because of old-fashioned bathrooms.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That is a teardown done properly.
    — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Finally, two years too late, Hahn began a teardown of a bad club.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The three wood buildings that cater to the needs of boat owners and house some storefronts are also teardowns.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The teardown reveals more, though, and that’s the detail of the bigger battery.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Cook expects the teardown following the game to last about 15 days.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a school of thought that the Leafs should start the teardown this offseason, no matter what.
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • One player — much less an 18-year-old — cannot end a total teardown rebuild like this.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
  • This signals a complete teardown and rebuild.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • From there, her review turned into a flavor-by-flavor teardown.
    — Ryan Brennan march 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Mar. 2026
  • March, Seabees practiced setup and teardown.
    — Gidget Fuentes, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The debate is likely to persist, as the pace of teardowns and rebuilds shows no sign of abating.
    — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The offensive line has been up-and-down, but the Vikings don’t need a complete teardown in that area.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Reza said that the teardown-worthy condition of the property was one of the things that drew him.
    — Kavita Daswani, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The teardown revealed thermal paste and graphite tape but no active cooling and not even a heat spreader.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 July 2022
  • The teardown of the current facility could open up about 30 acres of land.
    — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • And the Astros have again risen after a teardown of their roster that broke Navarette's heart.
    — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Kelly faces his own issues starting Year 3 of a rebuild that has felt more like a teardown.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Popovich, who is 69 and probably will not be around to reap the rewards of a complete teardown, is one.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
  • The existing home was a teardown, but the lot and location were just what the couple was searching for.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025

tear down

2 of 2 verb
  • It has been closed and torn down a while.
    — Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The body of the plane tears down the middle.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The building was torn down last year.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • That center has now been torn down and the site cleared.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The people in the black shirts who put up and tear down the sets?
    — Quispe López, Them, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The craze had cooled off; many of the giants were torn down and tossed aside.
    — Conor Knighton, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The other cabins were torn down a long time ago.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of homes on either side of the road were torn down to make way for the road.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Many damaged homes will have to be torn down and rebuilt.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Watching a building get torn down might feel that way, too.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Mere days after that one went viral, it was torn down.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
  • Caruso said the ruins should be torn down.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the space will be torn down and redesigned.
    — Kerri Corrado, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Now that those tours have ended, the city plans to tear down the building.
    — Skyler Swisher, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2025
  • But it would be closed in the next year and torn down in 1917.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Now the East Wing has been largely torn down.
    — Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The 834-square-foot restaurant will not be torn down.
    — Jacob Wilt, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Today, most of the old windmills have been torn down or left to rust out on the prairie.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Don't do it while also tearing down a Black man, ok.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • White Stadium was torn down and the project is still on track.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Grief really unmasks you and can tear down your walls.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The former stage theater space is slated to be torn down.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Pochettino tore down depth charts.
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • New oil fields will be sought to extract from, new mines dug, forests torn down to sell timber.
    — Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025
  • At its most extreme, fans tear down goalposts and remove them from the field.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • How could [Nashville] be about to tear down this most sacred of places?
    — Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 29 May 2025
  • Right now, government is being torn down, rather than built up.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But over time, those houses were torn down and replaced with larger dwellings.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2023
  • Now, its full-size pickup truck is starting to tear down that legacy.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • He is disappointed it will be torn down.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025

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