Sentence examples for can rip up from inspiring English sources

"Do you think he can rip up the [deal]?" he said.

Well, you can rip up those fine, fevered promises and stick them in the bin.

The winger is apparently in Paris working on his fitness in the hope that he can rip up his agreement with Hull next month and move elsewhere, maybe back to France or even South America, as a free agent.

Farther on, the dirt road led past pine plantations, their loblolly and slash pines growing in rows; Mayer told me how wild hogs can rip up many acres of newly planted pine seedlings in a night, eating only the cambium-rich taproot and leaving the rest.

So Mr. Bush offered Mr. Putin two choices in Crawford: We can keep the ABM treaty around for a limited period, but you have to allow us an unprecedented degree of missile testing and assured deployment later; or we can rip up ABM now, and reach a handshake agreement on how to reduce nuclear weapons and manage testing.

A judge has declined to rule on whether Rangers can rip up its season-ticket deal with Ticketus, which it has emerged was worth more than £30m.

Dear Yanks, How many people have you heard of who got "ashtrayed" (breaking an ashtray over somebody's head) or "canned" (ripping up a can of lager and rubbing it over somebody's face a hundred times until their face looks like a crossword)?

At the same time, you can never rip up your roots entirely.

You've just made a fully legitimate deposit; at this point, you can actually rip up the check.

Namely, how can he rip up all the current network-sharing deals with his rivals and rearrange them without it either costing a fortune or disrupting customers?

He noted that, while China "can literally rip up and relocate an entire town," plans for a floating swimming-pool barge in city waters were delayed for years because of red tape.