Sentence examples for being torn from one from inspiring English sources
The butchery seems a literal representation of the more abstract condition of being torn from one culture and transplanted into another.
Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah published his fifth book, Admiring Silence, which portrayed the despair of being torn from one's roots.
For immigrants this means that even the slightest misstep such as a low-level arrest can have devastating consequences, including being torn from one's family through deportation.
The children were torn from one another; some were placed with relatives or guardians and some were left on their own.
The Muslim group is now trying to either subdivide their property to exclude the graves, or pay off their remaining mortgage (under $200,000) to prevent their loved ones from being torn from their final resting places.
One giant oak was torn from its roots in a graveyard, crushing tombstones beneath it.
One Patriot's home in the Lower Ninth Ward is crushed by a barge that was torn from its moorings.
The 1975 camp tell me the process that is just beginning is part of that engagement with the fans – or engaging as closely as one can when one risks being torn limb from limb.
Most calyces from this specimen are torn, but one clearly shows 2 lobes, another in bud has the calyx showing only a single small median tear (or slit).
Paul used to collect what are known as plate blocks, which are the four attached corner stamps, torn from one corner of a sheet of stamps — the upper left, or right corners, or any of the four corners, which include the margin, or border of the sheet, on which information about the stamp is printed.
