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torn
[ tawrn, tohrn ]
torn
/ tɔːn /
verb
- the past participle of tear 1
- that's torn it slang.an unexpected event or circumstance has upset one's plans
adjective
- split or cut
- divided or undecided, as in preference
he was torn between staying and leaving
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- un·torn adjective
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Example Sentences
It's about the delicate fabric of the universe and how our fragile insides crumble when that fabric is torn.
But the picture is torn in half by the geographic separation of the friezes.
But in 2002, the Park family was torn apart when he was arrested for illegal trading and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Female video game developers like Zoe Quinn have been torn apart and harassed for fabricated scandals.
The Oscar winning actress has been torn to shreds by the media and public for her altered face.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.
Next morning that glorious garrison quitted the shot-torn plain they had hallowed by their deeds.
There was a scuffle, and Black Sheep was torn off the body by Harry and some colleagues, and cuffed home tingling but exultant.
His neck was torn open, bitten right through to the windpipe, the blood still dripping from it into a dark pool on the carpet.
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