A wrench sailed toward him, glanced off his arm, and ripped at his muscles.
Her topworks were smashed out of all shape, and her decks were ripped and rent in all directions, but her hull was still sound, and a few days' work at her engines would make them serviceable.
The steel-walled casemates were cracked and rippedopen as though they had been built of common deal, and every man on deck within twenty yards of the explosion dropped dead or insensible.
Then the enemy bethought themselves of it, and Laguerre returned to the other end of the breastwork with a hole in his hat and his vest neatly ripped down the back.
Long 45-90 bullets struck the breast-work with sharp splintering sounds, or ripped overhead, humming shrilly.
But the chain remained tangled, and amid all kinds of mocking advice we drifted down upon and fouled the Ghost, whose bowsprit poked square through our mainsail and ripped a hole in it as big as a barn door.
The Reindeer's bowsprit, like a monstrous hand, reached over and ripped out the junk's chunky mast and towering sail.
The other feather-beds and pillows were ripped up, disemboweled and emptied by some of the other rioters.
Pillows were wrenched from under invalids to be ripped up and thrown into the street.
After that it didn't take her long to discover that the lining had been ripped open and resewn with every indication of careless haste.
She nodded impatiently: "Oh, of course--with the lining half rippedout and the necklace missing.
We poured out the last of the water in a pannikin and kept it for Rajah, and I ripped open a couple of envelopes and set to work on them with a stub of pencil, while Captain Riggs took my knife and began to whittle a piece of board.
It seemed to me that the bottom plates were being ripped out of her and she was settling on her side with a succession of thumps which I took to be her last effort to keep afloat.
The name painted on the two smashed boats had been ripped from their sterns, and everything that would float was locked securely in cabins or made fast.
The ground was trodden; purple-leaf vines hung dead and brown, ripped out by trunks and tusks.
Paul noticed a heap of torn cloth, all that remained of Earth-made shorts and jackets and overalls, ripped for bandages.
The first ripped open the roof of the Town Hall and set fire to it.
Speed and the wind of speed, the air rushing by like a water-race as he ripped through it, the streaming past him of trees and hedges, the humming and throbbing of his engines, were ecstasy to Jimmy.
Laths, lumber, and bunches of shingles were ripped loose and went into the sea.
The spitter must have ripped all her rotten canvas off her spars as she rolled and there had been no brace to hold her on her beam-ends when she went over.
Then he ripped out a good, hearty, deep-water oath.
And by the way those backstays are ripped out, and seeing how that mast is wabbling, this schooner is liable to be about as badly mixed up as the people are on board of her.
All these had been ripped open and disembowelled, after which their flesh, cut into thin slices, and spread out on the tops of the empty water-casks that surrounded the raft, was in process of being cured by drying in the sun.
Beside him was a tall, stoop-shouldered man, with matted beard, wearing the coat of a British Grenadier, but with all insignia of rank ripped from it.
Tom and I stood alone, his face blackened by powder, his shirt ripped into rags; the other three were above, pistols in hand.
Bareheaded, my face streaked with blood and dirt, my coat rags, my shirt ripped to the waist.
Then urged by some unseen power the flag-staff ripped its way through the water, throwing the spray in silvery cascades.
The floor had been violently ripped up, and unknown to the driver and the constable on the box the suspect had got clean away.
The trader's anger ripped out in a crackle of obscene oaths.
With her hunting-knife the girlripped the canvas from the side of the top.
He ripped up his goggles, brushed both eyes with his hand, and peered at the air above and about him.
For a brief instant, as sharp grief and bitter despair ripped through Dawson like a two-edged knife, he almost lost the grip he had on himself.
A ragged, ill-timed volley ripped out from somewhere near the conflagration and was answered instantly by one that was close-ripped like the fire of heavy ordnance.
A chorus of bugles burst out from the British camp, and a volley rippedthrough the blackness.
The orders ripped out, like the crack of a drover's whip.
Of course all dust should be carefully brushed off and all folds ripped and loosened before putting the hat into the liquid.
The seams should be ripped and the piece set in then, if the seams are pressed well, the patch will scarcely be noticeable.
After fitting, the lining is ripped apart and the outside cut by it.
Ripped tucks and bands can be sewed in a few minutes on the machine.
Garments that are ripped should have all cut threads pulled out and be free from dust.
A volcano of fire followed him, a fountain of earth that ripped and tore and stretched itself in a writhing, tortured line across the land as the white ship passed.
But her hands, in the convulsions of death, still rippedand tore, and the black whom she held was a ghastly thing when the she was finally dead.
He saw him tossed about like a mere child, and casually torn apart, ripped limb from limb by the mighty hands of Manape.
His mighty shoulders heaved and twisted and the uprights were ripped apart.
The boy lay just as he had fallen and died, with his jacket torn and scorched, his shoulder-blade smashed and burst away from his body and all the left side of his body ripped and rent.
The captain got one panel ripped too soon and the others not soon enough.
They slashed down on us like a knife; simply ripped the after gas-chambers like gutting herrings, crumpled up the engines and screw.
And about four o'clock in the afternoon upon a wide and rocky plain within sight of snow-crested cliffs, the Vaterland ripped and grounded.
The Asiatics swept by them and above them, ripped their bladders, set them alight, picked off their dimly seen men in diving clothes, who struggled against fire and tear with fire extinguishers and silk ribbons in the inner netting.
Valbroso ripped out an oath and stamped furiously up the winding stair, followed by Conan and the captain.
Tarascus wheeled, but even before he could recognize his attacker, Conan's poniardripped into him.
Blood and entrails spilled over his hand and someone screamed as he ripped murderously upward.
And like a thunderbolt they smote the struggling ranks of the Nemedians--smote them, split them apart, ripped them asunder and dashed the remnants headlong down the slopes.
Conan ripped a heavy ax from the rail and wheeled cat-like to meet the rush of the sailors.
Suddenly Conan's long left arm shot out and ripped the mask from the man's head, disclosing the pallid features.
With a curse the king hewed right and left with his broadsword, thrust and ripped with his dagger.
Lieutenant Webster devoted his second storm of fire at the stern guns, and the stanchions and bulwarks about them were ripped up, and the guns themselves dismounted.
The man came sheepishly out with my saddle, cut and ripped and gutted till it wasn't worth a sou.
He, tearing the lantern out of the feeble hands, and rattling it down on a table, ripped open the letter and devoured its contents.
The Colonel, meanwhile, having reloaded, brought down another dragoon with one shot, and ripped open a sack with another.
They ripped the animal open, removed the viscera, detached the heart, liver and kidneys, and delivered them into Ed's hands.
Letting herself drop to the other side, she caught the stranger's head in her arms and eased the fall, as the dress ripped and gave way.
They have ripped up the floors and the walls and dug all around the hut to see if he didn't bury some money as well.
Bill Cowan and his friends stared at this diminutive Frenchman, open-mouthed, as he poured forth a veritable torrent of unintelligible words, plentifully mixed with sacres, which he ripped out like snarls.
He turned and fled, but not before the great knife had caught him on its point as it swung down and ripped a deep gash the full length of his naked back.
And the reports had said that great, red-dripping holes had been ripped in their thin little bodies by those awful "dum-dum" bullets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ripped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agonized; clawed; crucified; harrowed; lacerated; racked; ragged; tortured; wrung
