Sentence examples for hit rip from inspiring English sources

As much in love with disco and soul as the Velvet Underground, Orange Juice were richer, wittier and more daring than any of their imitators: their records – whether the chaotic, life-affirming rush of 1980's Blueboy, their sparkling hit Rip It Up or 1984's gorgeous ballad A Sad Lament – are still as fresh as new paint.

Compilation album ubiquity might have left some remembering Orange Juice for the gooey bass of their 1983 hit Rip It Up, after the band had signed to Polydor, but time spent with their earlier output is highly rewarding, if just for the witty, ruminative lyrics.

He reached base three times Monday, with two walks and a base hit ripped to right.

The hit ripped away the port outer driveshaft and the ship took a 13-degree list and lost power, communications, and steering.

Matt Schaub lost a small chunk of his ear after a brutal hit ripped off his helmet but still threw four touchdown passes against a confused Denver defense, but the Texans had to hold off a Peyton Manning comeback for a 31-25 victoverover the Broncos.

Nunez did get the hit, ripping a triple to center field that scored Vernon Wells from second base with the tying run off Joe Nathan, the Rangers closer who blew his fifth save against the Yankees, including one big one in the 2009 playoffs.

Red Sox shortstop Marco Scutaro, who tied a career high with four hits, ripped a double off the Green Monster to leadoff the bottom of the ninth, and scored the tying run on a sacrifice fly by Dustin Pedroia.

The estate of Spirit's guitarist Randy Wolfe, also known as Randy California, had sued for recognition and a share of the proceeds on the grounds the 1971 mega-hit ripped off Taurus, an instrumental composed in 1967.

A year later another storm hit and ripped the boat right off the bottom.

Then he hit her, ripped her clothes and insulted her in front of their two young sons.

His party energy minster joined in with more energetic language about how "hard-pressed consumers" (victims) being hit and ripped off (harm).