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The phrase "are torn off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has been ripped or detached from a larger object or surface.
Example: "The pages of the book are torn off, making it difficult to read."
Alternatives: "have been ripped off" or "are removed."
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"They faked the fact that they are torn off.
While the surface is fracturing, the force remains constant, and small filaments of polymer are torn off.
The snow skink needs warm, sunny weather to become active, so the honey-bush's petals are torn off only in such weather.
As the strains of Purcell are replaced by the patriotic swell of Parry's "Jerusalem", the Elizabethan robes are torn off to reveal an England football strip, with blood splatters forming the cross of St George.
In terms of the plot, the most important crime in the novel's present time is the rape of Lisbeth by her state-appointed guardian, Nils Bjurman, but, while we're told that her clothes are torn off and that something is then rammed up her anus, we don't hear much more.
Any industry where unsold inventory is destroyed by the seller and refunded by the producer, as happens with books where the covers are torn off and returned (if you're lucky) for reimbursement, is solidly and fundamentally broken.
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Part of the note was torn off.
His right ear was torn off.
Roofs were torn off houses.
The ivy had been torn off.
Her bra had also been torn off.
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