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Example sentences for "rips"

Lexicographically close words:
rippled; ripples; rippling; ripplings; ripply; ript; rique; riqueza; rire; ris
  1. The king whirls on me and rips out: "None o' your business!

  2. About an hour or two ago it would a been a little different, but now it made me feel bad and disappointed, The king rips out and says: "What!

  3. Just here the channel was straight and clear of rocks, and though the rips were heavy the man had a few minutes' respite, with little to do but hold his course.

  4. Such light and unobstructed rips as he had gone through had merely sufficed to make him regard lightly the menace confronting him.

  5. Twists and rips and scratches and stains bear silent witness of your agitation, your activity, your merry-making.

  6. He rips you from the fire - - He casts you on the anvil - - holds you tight.

  7. But instead, I am in pain, an incessant, terrible neuralgic pain, which forces me up from my bed at night and rips the pen out of my hand a hundred times during the day!

  8. A cracked mirror lay on an old straw mattress, the contents of which were airing themselves through wide rips and rents.

  9. The Modoc rips and tears around outdoors most of the time, and consequently is as hard as a pineknot and as brown as an Indian.

  10. The tide-rips that boil and roar around the naked Barren Islands subject ships to graver danger than the fiercest storms on this wild and stormy coast.

  11. There are fearful tide-rips at the entrance and again about halfway up the inlet, where they appeared "frightful" to Cook and his men.

  12. In these days The Rips furnish good cod and haddock fishing for the entire year, with hake abundant at all times on the mud about them.

  13. Here are very heavy rips on the ebb tide.

  14. Mentioned elsewhere as a herring ground, these lie outside the Bulkhead Rips 8 or 9 miles SE.

  15. For if the top face is too keen it rips rather than cuts the brass, giving it a patchy, mottled appearance.

  16. To the one on the left he feeds heavy blocks of cedar, reaching over with his left hand to remove the rough shingles it rips off.

  17. Sometimes there are tiny rips in the seams of stockings.

  18. The stitching made by it rips very easily; and the ends must be fastened carefully when one stops.

  19. Twice they sighted the lonely light on Cape St. John, and twice they were driven back to flounder in the big combers and rips of Burdwood Bank, hove-to under scanty canvas.

  20. I cal'late the rips o' the Pacific drift and the Patagonia current ain't agoin' to bother us much in there .

  21. The tides cause very nasty tide-rips in the narrow channels between the islands of the Central group; but inside, the sea is fairly good, and the reefs offer plenty of anchorage for small craft.

  22. The sea is much more dangerous here than in the New Hebrides, being open everywhere; and the strong currents cause heavy tide rips at the points of the jagged coasts.

  23. No beam of light above Save when a flash rips up the clouds.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.