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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tear in half" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the action of tearing something in two pieces. For example: "He tore the sheet of paper in half".
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"I felt like my muscles were going to tear in half," he said.
"It feels like I'm running barefoot, like my hamstrings are going to tear in half," he says.
Dickens tended to use rough blue paper, not unlike the blue paper used on Warren's Blacking pots, which he'd tear in half, writing quickly and firmly on one side only, sometimes using the reverse for corrections and additions.
Rinse the figs under cool running water and tear in half.
The tendon came cleanly off the elbow, and the muscle didn't tear in half.
Before Giambi began wearing custom-made orthotics, he said, his foot felt as if it "was going to tear in half" when he swung.
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My heart is torn in half.
It nearly tore in half before it exploding into flames.
"I saw bodies that were torn in half," she said.
"My life was tearing in half," she says.
People still alive who were torn in half.
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