Sentence examples for cover torn from inspiring English sources

No – spine knackered, cover torn, print terrible.

I soon missed the record and glared at the books: Golding's The Inheritors, its back cover torn; a flinty, bone-dry biography of Scott from the library of some posh school; and Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country.

Maureen envisioned a book cover torn down the middle, Danny's friends and family on one side, Abu-Jamal supporters on the other.

The colors are saturated, lurid, one might say; you might think it's a still from a movie, or a perhaps a cover torn off the latest JCrew catalog, but it is neither.

He emerged with a Bible, its cover torn away, and told her to take the book to where it might be safe.

Some people have had problems with regular vinyl mattress covers tearing or ripping.

Some people have complained about traditional vinyl mattress covers tearing and ripping and since the hardware store plastic is very tough it should last for a long time.

But as employees filed out of the service, dressed in black and wearing sunglasses to cover tear-stained eyes, many said they felt as if they had lost a cousin, even a sister or brother.

Its plastic cover is torn at the binding, revealing cardboard.

A magazine you thought you'd lost, with the cover all torn up and crumpled.

I found the crying child, 4-year-old Abdi, in a make-shift hut, covered in torn clothing.