Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. From LearnThat.org. [Faith Baldwin, Source: Harvest of Hope, April, 1962.]
torn between love and hate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
“Borg!” she howled, a word torn from her innermost self. From Wordnik.com. [VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL] Reference
It was the work of an instant only to glance at the label torn from the picture-case. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Passenger : a novel] Reference
A term torn page comes from the idea of a torn page in a book. From Wordnik.com. [SqlXml Blogs] Reference
It also contained a label torn from a pizza box, and made reference to various pizza toppings. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
(Felicity Lott in torn nylons and safety pins, maybe.). From Wordnik.com. [Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it] Reference
To circumcise an infant, the foreskin must be torn from the glans. From Wordnik.com. [Just a Bit Off the Top] Reference
It had been torn from the line, a section of which was dragging to it. From Wordnik.com. [The "King Of The Greeks"] Reference
It can consist of a child's drawing or scenery torn from a country magazine. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of T.C. Chiu] Reference
Dissent was a word torn from the dictionary from September 12, 2001 until February. From Wordnik.com. [Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper] Reference
A limping figure, a girl in torn sweats, hands in her pockets, eyes cast to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Great blotches marked the places where imperial insignia had been torn from the buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship] Reference
When Giambi is playing in torn and tattered pinstripes, Steinbrenner is usually on the phone. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Best-of-seven only true test in postseason] Reference
Dressed in torn and muddy jeans that can no longer be washed, he will approach my house, and ask me. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Apocalyptic Marketability Skills] Reference
Apparently the last shreds of freedom have finally been torn from the fingers of Illinois residents. From Wordnik.com. [ZUMBOMANIA, PART II: David E.] Reference
As they passed the table they saw on it a missionary-box with its bottom label torn off, open and empty. From Wordnik.com. [The Phoenix and the Carpet] Reference
We looked like poor Mexicans, dirty, and in torn clothing, my hair down my back and a reboso on my head. From Wordnik.com. [Murder in Mexico: an English family during the Revolution] Reference
And how sad because it might just be one of the strongest things we've ever written, torn from the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Closet] Reference
I set it in the middle of the pictures advertising strip clubs torn from the back page of the local free weekly. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: M is for Mouse] Reference
Like the one written on a half sheet of paper torn from a spiral notebook that reads Mama, I love you sooooo much!. From Wordnik.com. [Write On Wednesday-Love Letters] Reference
They had lain torn in my writing-case, till their covers were all lost, and there is now no correct dating of them. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The strong lion dies of want at last, and the whelps, torn from the mother, are scattered, and the race becomes extinct. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The hit resulted in torn knee ligaments for the 70-year-old coach, yet he continued to observe the remainder of practice. From Wordnik.com. [Around the Big12 Conference] Reference
Like the seed sown in autumn, She symbolically descends into the underworld, torn from the breast of Her mourning mother. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Henes: Harvesting Mother Earth's Gifts of Life] Reference
They were bone-tipped and feather shafted, and the feathers, torn from the breasts of humming-birds, iridesced like jewels. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
Later, when Cliff's artificial body is deactivated and his organic brain torn out and stomped flat, he's surprised not to be dead. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Then it was that Mrs. McFee's righteous hand descended, and accompanying it in its descent was a black mask torn from a startled woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Scorn of Women] Reference
The Chinese might not like seeing innocent students killed, but they hate the idea of their country once again torn to shreds even more. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » War for War’s Sake] Reference
There were only a few extra leaves on the ground that had been torn from the surrounding trees by last night's windy autumnal rain storm. From Wordnik.com. [All we need is Blog?] Reference
The hand that has signed the union should be cut off; and the tongue that has pronounced the Latin creed deserves to be torn from the root. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Now, Clady's is only partially torn, which is why some folks are saying the injury will only last 3-4 months. From Wordnik.com. [SBNation.com - All Posts] Reference
Ndukwe is still uncertain, dealing with the soreness of having a body part torn, which is apparently how they roll in the NFL. From Wordnik.com. [Cincy Jungle] Reference
And will a contented conscience compensate for fallen hopes -- a slandered name torn affections & all the miseries of civilized life?. From Wordnik.com. [Mathilda] Reference
These lines appear another place -- scrawled on a shipping tag torn from a compressed-air container, and pinned to the ground with a knife. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
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