I tore that," objected Dot, who certainly had bad luck with her clothes.
With wild whoops the children tore round to the front of the house and fell upon Father and Mother Blossom just getting out of the car.
They scrambled under the line fence, and Dot only tore one of the ruffles off her frock.
Meg ripped the string off her parcel with a single motion and pulled off the paper in such a hurry that she tore it in two.
While the others watched, Doctor Maynard tore off long white strips of cloth and selected two wooden splints.
I don't know how I knew, but I did know a hunk of it was coming straight for me, and I dove off into the weeds just as it struck and tore up the ground behind me.
We toredown the old shanty, and put up the new house in short order.
There was a gentle smile upon his lips then as he took the manuscript of his sermon and tore it up into very small pieces before consigning it to the waste-paper basket.
But as time went on he was obliged to realise the truth, and he wrote reproachful letters, but only tore them up again, to write others in his old, simple, confiding strain.
He snatched the brief from his father's hand, tore it open, and as the leaves fluttered in his trembling hand he sank back in a chair, looking like one who had received some deadly blow.
But, with a quick flash of anger, shetore it away.
She tore my handkerchief and her own into bandages, produced needle and thread from her little travelling reticule, and sewed them together.
He tore it open angrily; but, glancing at the first lines, exclaimed, "What do I see?
She tore it open, and, glancing through the contents, uttered a cry of joy that rang through the château, and reached the ears even of the countess and her son in the library.
A bottle of Miss Saidie's raspberry vinegar was hidden in one corner, and he tore the paper label from the cork and drank like a man who perishes from thirst.
It was several mornings after this that Fletcher, coming into the dining-room where Maria sat at a late breakfast, handed her a telegram, and stood waiting while she tore it open.
I met him as I drove up the road and he had the impudence to keep his ox-cart standing plumb still while I tore through the briers.
A storm, bearing battle overhead, tore the night to pieces.
Nesta knocking at the door a third time and calling, tore the mother two ways: to have her girl on her breast or snap their union in a word with an edge.
They were received at the verge of the crowd outside the theatre-doors by Skepsey, who wriggled, tore and clove a way for them, where all were obedient, but the numbers lumped and clogged.
I tore up my shirt into bandages and tied them around his leg, and then so they would not come off and also to keep his feet warm I took my socks and pulled them on his feet.
The ghoul had risen and was slinking for cover when the crack of a rifle tore a gap in the stillness.
When he had lit a candle and set it amongst the music papers upon the table, he tore off his dripping clothes.
Why, they tore down some of the iron guards round the trees, if you call that barricades.
It had been partly cut in one place, but in crossing hetore his thigh on a barb.
Lieutenant Leprohon went to the hospital, having been severely gassed when he tore off his mask to guide the batteries up the shelled road, winning the admiration of all the men by his courage and energy.
She did not want to leave him, but fear tore at her heart; the herd was on them again, though the halt had been so brief.
I will take you to her," Justin promised, as he tore the blankets and slicker from behind the saddle.
And now while he suffered intense misery he determined to plunge into still more intense, and strove for greater emotion than that which already tore him.
The ladies wrang their fingers white, The maidens tore their hair.
The Wrig made ready to howl with offended pride, but we soothed her, and she tore her yellow curls with her chubby hands.
While my friends arranged his injured feelings, I made for my room, toreoff my clothes, and got into pyjamas.
We passed some desolate Armenian villages and tore along to the upper heights.
The 40-pounders toreup the water, going very close to but always missing the barges, and the shock from a Windy Lizzie hitting the water was always much greater to my sandbags on the roof, than when hitting the earth beneath us.
I omitted to record that a shell tore down the house at the front of this, and one wrecked the base of the column office.
It tore down bivouacs, carried off tents and valises, pulled up picketing pegs, and rolled even heavy pots hundreds of yards off, where they were buried in the sand and many lost.
Ardmore seized a long envelope which the man extended, tore it open, and read: Thomas Ardmore, Esq.
The colonel cast the wicker basket from him with a force that nearly tore him from his saddle.
Then she bent toward the prisoner, tore the bandage from his eyes, and with more difficulty freed him of the gag.
Artistically and athletically the cheer leaders tore about, doing their various prepared stunts, rehearsed especially for this occasion.
He could no more have tore himself away at that moment than he could have embraced the barge-man swearing blue murder at his feet.
He tore his coat from me, and so down the stair like a madman; and I heard his horse clatter down the street, while I prayed for a soul in agony, and that she might not think I betrayed her.
Campo-Basso handed the parchment to Charles, and he tore it to shreds.
I cannot speak with certainty on that point, for I was quickly thrown away from him by the avenging mob that rushed upon us and tore the fellow limb from limb.
But her weight always tore them away finally, and then she had to grasp the next one.
Gusts of the mad tornado tore off great masses of the dark clouds and, eddying them about, whirled the vapor out of them, away down the sides of the mountain.
The now dying youth tore open his mail and showed his father the onyx which his mother had bound on his arm as directed.
Yes, I saw his silhouette as he tore by," Freddy said through clenched teeth.
The bullet tore on out through the side of the cabin.
Then he tore his eyes off the two men going down by parachute and fastened them on the Jap cruiser's seaplane skimming along the surface of the water.
His guns hammered and pounded out nickel-jacketed destruction, and a hail of doom tore into the other Devastator like red hot pokers slashing into snow.
Dave tore his gaze from the plane ahead and stared hard in the direction of the English youth's pointed finger.
My lips pressed the paper ere I tore it into fragments, and scattered them outside the bars.
The audience were delighted with this, but their joy reached its height when someone shouted: 'You might speak better of the men who tore down the placard on Wednesday.
At about eight o'clock large numbers of Metropolitan police sallied out of their barracks and tore down the last batch of placards.
Time after time he tore up a page of bombast or erased ridiculous flamboyancies.
It hooted irritably, furiously, as the car tore through the village.
She tore out of the cupboard a teapot, a cup and a saucer, a loaf on a plate and a jar of dripping.
Tortured, mutilated by the jagged cloud that held her, the moon struggled and toreher way, she lifted and freed herself high and struck the marshes white.
Then her heart dragged and tore at her, as if it fought against her will to die.
Her voice sounded abrupt and brutal, as it tore its way from her tense throat.
This looked as though he meant to stop and fight it out--the Grizzly evidently thought so, for he gave a snort of rage and tore down the mountain full at his enemy.
I think of the manner we toredown the tepee one night, for the Men had taken the eating inside to keep it from us.
Then with a sudden impulse he tore it to shreds and flung it into the fireplace.
When the footman was gone she suddenly toreoff the upper part of her dress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
