Sentence examples for become torn from inspiring English sources

I started 2015 by writing The Syria I Miss- an article in which I described how a once peaceful country has now become torn apart by a civil war of proxy.

At the morula stage the developing embryo is very sensitive to shaking and the cells may become torn off from the surface, resulting in the death of the embryo.

Never let it become torn, soiled or damaged.

Do not allow your dog to continue playing with these toys if they become torn, or have ay holes in them.

Make sure your design from newsprint doesn't become torn or damaged by the tape that temporarily holds it onto the wall.

The fanciful menagerie is given substance by the beauty of Sanders's descriptions: we see "water fight itself down the drain"; curtains curl "like the toes of waves"; teeth become "torn bits of paper" capable of "thinning the dark".

Similar symptoms also arise when the retina becomes torn or detached, causing brief flashing lights to be seen.

The issue flared into the open in 2009 when the investment bank became torn by a bitter disagreement between its co-chiefs, Winters and Black.

Equipped with hand-written notes, Martin O'Neill came prepared to yesterday's press conference but they were inconsequential when matters became torn between his heart and head.

When Begbie returns to Edinburgh, following the death of his estranged son, he becomes torn between his new identity and his violent past.

Marshall returned to westerns with The Savage (1952), which starred Charlton Heston as a white settler who is raised by Native Americans and becomes torn between the two cultures when a war breaks out.