Sentence examples for small rips from inspiring English sources

Any small rips or holes can be patched with extra pastry.

There are remarkable evocations of the uncanniness, even the wonder, of fighting: "When the ringing of the first shots subsided, we heard bullets, sounds like small rips in the air, reports of rifles from somewhere we couldn't see.

Mr. Percy writes: At the age of 17, Kevin Powers enlisted in the Army and eventually served as a machine-gunner in Iraq, where the sky is "vast and catacombed with clouds," where soldiers stay awake on fear and amphetamines and Tabasco sauce daubed into their eyes, where rifles bristle from rooftops and bullets sound like "small rips in the air".

At the age of 17, Kevin Powers enlisted in the Army and eventually served as a machine-gunner in Iraq, where the sky is "vast and catacombed with clouds," where soldiers stay awake on fear and amphetamines and Tabasco sauce daubed into their eyes, where rifles bristle from rooftops and bullets sound like "small rips in the air".

The kites, which are brought over from Pakistan, ordered on the Internet or bought at neighborhood stores, cost $2 to $3 each (a kite that gets cut is usually gone for good; a winning kite often sustains small rips and tears).

In contrast, when indenting the nuclear envelope region, a second rip was observed, which was composed of several small rips, suggesting that the different nuclear membranes were penetrated by the AFM probe.

It had survived the wave and the ensuing monsoons with only one small rip.

– I fell into a small rip in the space-time continuum.

Of someone whose last name is obscured by a small rip, an administrator wrote, "Attitude not bad, but Sarah is slow and dreamy".

Mr. Kingsbury recalled a patron who had a terrible reaction because she saw, through a small rip in a duvet, some fibers that she mistook for down.

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