Sentence examples for case ripped from from inspiring English sources

This is not a case ripped from the headlines.

In a case that seems ripped from the pages of the satirical newspaper The Onion, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Mr. Morton for securities fraud on Thursday, claiming he swindled more than $6 million from investors by promising them "piles of money," along with spiritual happiness.

Audiences, however, presumably noticed that the writing of Mr. Duff and his colleagues was reasonably sophisticated, and that the murder cases, even when ripped from especially lurid Los Angeles headlines, were thoughtfully constructed and made sense, up to a point.

In at least one case, a tank was ripped from the ground and floated a mile.

New showrunner Warren Leight said of the incident's inspiration for this episode, "In this case, I don't believe we ripped from the headlines.

The plot was ripped from the headlines of an appalling real case.

The episode "Scorched Earth," ripped from the headlines of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, was taut, restrained and well acted, in the best "SVU" tradition.

In other words, they were filling their iPods mainly with free music -- possibly ripped from their own CD collections, but in many cases amassed through illegal downloads from file-sharing networks.

Ripped from the headlines?

"Houses were ripped from their stumps.

Phone wires ripped from her kitchen wall.