Sentence examples for could not tear from inspiring English sources

well, I simply could not tear myself away.

"I hated it, but I could not tear my ears away".

— They were supposed to be getting ready for practice Saturday afternoon, but the Connecticut women's basketball players could not tear themselves away from the television.

Or, to be precise, the boy in this case, Ash (Domhnall Gleeson), could not tear himself away from his phone's access to online social networks and what academics probably call the opportunity for self-mediation.

But it seemed that the crowd of more than 100, who filtered into a separate anteroom for the movie, could not tear their eyes away from the swinging '60s set in the main space.

Because it was a terrible thing for a man who believed in humanity and the humanist idea of Judaism to see [the direction Israel was taking], but he believed he could not tear himself away from that identification [with Israel].

We couldn't tear ourselves from the windows.

I simply couldn't tear myself away from it".

This is razor-sharp writing, magnetically performed - I couldn't tear my eyes away from it.

"You couldn't tear me away from here, not even for the holiday.

He is mesmerising and monstrous and I couldn't tear my eyes off him.