Sentence examples for managed to rip from inspiring English sources

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After ironing the girl's shirt that day — he managed to rip a hole in it, and the girl had to borrow a teacher's sweater — Mr. Santana stopped to chat with the neighbors gathered outside.

I thought, if someone managed to rip the door open out of my grasp, and there's 15 people, 20 people pulling on the sliding door, I'm not gonna be able to hold it.

Kelly quipped that the charges were "a case of the equipment manager leading the National League in steals," adding that "by padding invoices, misappropriating player uniforms and stealing autographed memorabilia, Samuels managed to rip off the Mets organization of more than $2 million".

What a time to be alive: on Monday, while performing on stage in Stockholm's Gröna Lund theme park, Lenny Kravitz managed to rip the crotch of his leather trousers when he crouched down, revealing his penis to the crowd and, later, multiple YouTube viewers.

Just contrast his approach with that of another famous white rapper, Eminem: on the Marshall Mathers LP, he managed to rip into the hypocrisy of white power structures without explicitly telling the world he was doing so – where he was a coiled, unapologetic ball of rage, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are a far less rock'n'roll prospect.

Placing the adhesive tape on the graphite, they managed to rip off thin flakes of carbon.

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You probably know iFixit as the folks that somehow manage to rip apart nearly every new popular device within hours of its release.

Three scrawny men push another, older man around; in the end, they manage to rip something out of his hand.

Three scrawny men push another, older man around; in the end they manage to rip something out of his hand.

And better, in a world where cell providers are still managing to rip-off users with their text message bundles or $0.15 rate per-text, group texting is absolutely free.

Not only have they managed to completely rip off everything from the body design to the user interface (presumably poorly), but they've also stuffed it all into a package just 8.5mm thick!

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