The phrase "a single rip" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe one instance of tearing or damage, often in the context of fabric or material.
Example: "After the first use, I noticed a single rip in the jacket that I had just bought."
Alternatives: "one tear" or "a lone rip".
I sat at the kitchen table and made a single rip in the collar.
Fishl the tzaddik who might have been an idiot once said, A single rip is harder to bear than a hundred rips.
When the surf was high and the riptides were strong, we'd sometimes rescue nearly 100 swimmers a day from a single rip current.
The second shock, revealed when the younger sister tears open the dead woman's shift "in a single rip until the corpse was revealed naked on the bed," is a tattooed line that thickens, "rounding itself out from a tail into the body of a snake, silver green in color".
This proteolytic mechanism is of broad relevance for cell-cell communication, illustrating how distinct signaling pathways can be integrated into a single RIP module.
It spaces you out too much to be practical for anything other than sitting on the couch for four hours and makes it so you can't do more than a single bong rip before turning in for the night.
The musicians named themselves Homemade Sister after a line from the film Baby Doll and released their first single—"Rip the Wreck"/"Merry"—on Safety Net Records in 1990.
After Felipe López led off with a single, Ryan Zimmerman ripped a sharp grounder up the middle.
A few hours after the polls closed, a single explosion ripped through a bus stop in a busy shopping district.
A single torpedo ripped through the Gairsoppa's hull and exploded, causing the forward mast to topple and the antenna to snap, cutting off the ship from the world.
Case in point: Last month, a single attack ripped through the Web, infecting more than half a million sites including those of the Department of Homeland Security, the United Nations and the British Government.
