Sentence examples for being torn up for from inspiring English sources

Around the nation, residential streets are being torn up for new fiber-optic cables.

Britain's largest Hindu organisation is calling on supporters to write to Hollywood distributor Warner Bros to protest against a French-made comedy that depicts images of the deity Shiva being torn up for laughs.

But it is a cosmopolitan Texas, a boom (and bust) town of oil, finance and commerce where Hummers crowd pickups on jammed freeways being torn up for more freeways.

The oil and aerospace industries are ailing, and the Mojave Desert to the north of the city, where the stealth bomber was tested and the space shuttle still lands, is now being torn up for residential communities by developers like Eli Broad, the tycoon from the west side who is a close supporter of Mayor Riordan and was instrumental in bringing the Democrats to town this summer.

Four children are being forced to move from their homes as development is being torn up for a highway.

After being torn up for many years, Nice is now the proud owner for a wonderful new tram line.

"My body can only be torn up for so many years, and then what am I going to do — drive a truck?" he mused that afternoon.

After my 70-minute runs at a 7-minute-per-mile pace, I'd be torn up for the rest of the day.

In the last several years, almost every part of New York City's financial district has been torn up for rebuilding, rewiring and repaving.

But laying the loops requires diverting traffic to tear up the road -- and all the wiring must be relaid if the road is torn up for other reasons.

Underneath the square he placed empty white bookshelves, which, until the area was torn up for renovations this summer, were visible through a plexiglass window in the ground.