The blow missed its aim, but Bob felt the long, sharp spikes tearing the flesh of his thigh.
With short, quick jabs of his hoe, he wastearing away at the tough tarweed.
One day I got a note from Sasa French that took me up to Malifa at a tearing run.
I was turning this over in my mind when a squall of rain came tearing along, the sky all black with it, and the roof hammering like a boiler factory.
The old seaman caught and shook her like a dog, tearing away the whistle she put to her lips and dashing it on the floor.
It is performed partly in the open air, partly in the cells, and consists of untwisting old cables, and then tearing them into loose hemp, which is used for caulking the seams of ships.
A moment after, a horse with a lady on his back came tearing down at a mad speed right on him.
Friday was appointed for the final match over the long Victoria course, and it turned out a very coarse time, the wind coming in tearing squalls and the rain in sheets.
Often, while a hurricane is tearing and raging through Cook's Strait, calm weather will be found to prevail without disturbance in Blind Bay.
In contrast to the tearing pipe-up at Torquay, variable breezes, flaws, catspaws, and calms prevailed in Start Bay when the Royal Dart matches were decided.
A Street of All Nations showed the onward march, all the way from the women of Washington casting their "recall" ballots to the women of China unbinding their feet, and Turkish ladies tearing their veils into tatters.
We have been madly tearing around New York, and telephoning all over the adjacent territory in a wild endeavor to find you and get this into your hands.
Into this inclosure," answered Miton tearing his hands by seizing the thorns of the hedge.
This he proceeded to do; tearing it into an infinite number of little pieces, sending some into the river, others into the air, and burying the rest in holes in the ground.
All the same, there's a tremendous thrill in tearingthrough this glorious September weather.
She vowed, tearing in savage emphasis the patchwork counterpane, that nothing should induce her to suffer like this a second time.
Each gorge and gulch was transformed into a tumultuous watercourse that descended the hillsides, tearing down giant trees and scattering its drift and debris along the plain.
Couldn't you find any paper in the schoolhouse without tearing a leaf out of my memorandum book, Melissa?
The same horse that carried him to the Lanyans' was near at hand, and he vaulted into the saddle, and went tearing down the carriage drive.
The turnpike, beyond the bridge, was hidden three feet from sight, and tearing through the underbrush on either side of the public way was an ever-widening torrent.
Twenty minutes later I was in my sitting room, the door locked for fear of intrusion, and tearing open one after another with the hunger of curiosity.
It may be believed I lost no time in tearing open the paper that encircled the missives.
Of course, we could not see from that distance what damage was done, but heard afterwards from prisoners that this shell played havoc in the Yankee fort, killing and wounding men right and left, and tearing up things generally.
On reaching Jarratt's Station, it was found that a body of Yankee cavalry had come up from Suffolk and destroyed the railroad, tearing up the track and burning the bridge over Stony Creek, several miles further on.
He stuck tightly to his saddle, now and then casting apprehensive glances back at the horses that were tearing along in his wake.
Wild as the winter nowtearing the forest, Till the last leaf o' the summer is flown; Such is the tempest has shaken my bosom, Till my last hope and last comfort is gone.
The tyrant Death, with grim control, May seize my fleeting breath; But tearing Peggy from my soul Must be a stronger death.
The troops engaged in tearing down the breastwork instinctively loosed their hold, and flew to their arms, as they threw their eyes upward to the spot whence these blinding lights and deafening noises came.
He thrust in the tearing torments with a ferocious delight, not a little enhanced by the physical convulsive movements of his victim at every new insertion.
But this time I wept and roared like a wicked child, tearing up the turf with my nails and grinding my face in the earth.
A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone.
His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
Then he was gripping warm flesh, tearingit like a wild beast, and his assailant with a cry slackened his hold.
An earthquake seemed to be tearing at the roots of the hills.
There is seen an Acteon surprising Diana in the bath, the stag's antlers growing on his forehead and the hounds tearing him.
He never has the misfortune, in his games or sports, of soiling or tearing his clothes, for he has almost none to soil or tear.
There are no slaveholders here to rend my heart by snatching them from my arms, or blast a mother's dearest hopes by tearing them from her bosom.
It feeds on the fallen fruit of this tree by tearing off the husk, fibre by fibre; and it always begins at that end where the three eye-like depressions are situated.
He adds, "from the great proportion of the males, they are constantly fighting and tearingeach other on the spawning-beds.
Down here all the little threads of its being had united in a full tide of life still subject to the influences of its normal course, but wearing and tearing along beyond any power to stop till its appointed course was run.
For a moment her grasp came near tearing a piece out of Rankin's arm.
It proved to be from Madge, and tearing it open hastily, he read it.
Sit down and write an ode instead of tearing up and down like that.
She very well knew that if she kept quiet and asked her brother nothing about his reason for tearing up and down the room, his wrath would fall upon her head.
On entering the salon she found Gania pacing up and down at frantic speed, pale with rage and almosttearing his hair.
The officer, tearing himself from the prince's grasp, pushed him so violently backwards that he staggered a few steps and then subsided into a chair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tearing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
