2. Wash and pull the herb leaves from their stems, tearing larger leaves into rough ribbons.
Ms. Yang peeled the celery-like strings off the vine stems, tore off the soft leaves and snapped the hollow stems into several pieces.
You'll try to be stoical and still it won't stem the tears.
"Anthony Ryan, you're in," she told him, as he closed his eyes and tried to stem his tears.
Wolfsburg, inspired by Kevin De Bruyne, won 3-1 and in the post-match press conference, wearing the yellow Borussia baseball cap for the last time, Klopp fought, often in vain, to stem the tears.
Quoting past Labour party theoreticians, intellectualising justifications for betrayal in the language of an A-level sociology paper, and speaking left while voting right will not wash off the blood of the murdered Iraqis or stem the tears of a single parent forced off benefits or help explain to the unemployed person how they can live on £65-a-week jobseeker's allowance.
Just as I am clenching my teeth to stem the tears, I turn to find that the two other women at our lunch table - Eliza, de la Renta's step-daughter, and Alexandra, the head of publicity - have become wet and crumpled versions of their former selves.
Ohurougu could not stem the tears as she stood on top of the podium alongside Montsho and Russia's Antonina Krivoshapka.
We were frantically trying to open up a cereal bar in an effort to stem the tears.
With the leaves, tear out any particularly tough bits of stem, and tear each leaf in half lengthwise; the fibrous structure of the leaves makes them easy to tear.
