Sentence examples for terms rip from inspiring English sources

There is a dash of the Dubliner Oscar Wilde in Žižek, a man who couldn't hear a pious English sentiment without feeling an irresistible itch to reverse its terms, rip it inside out or stand it on its head.

NOAA encourages exclusive use of the correct term – rip currents.

Whenever I hear the term "rips" or "ripper," I immediately think of Lemmy.

At the top of Mr. Minder's list of such deals is the one a decade ago that brought about his personal fight against what he terms rip-off merchants.

To add to one thing he said, I had never heard the term "rip someone's face off" until I started working at Goldman Sachs.

I am certainly one of the biggest critics of the offset market as it is currently constituted, having coined the term rip-offsets.

It is nationalism that tore Yugoslavia apart, and it will be nationalism, albeit masked in economic terms, that may rip apart the euro zone and the enlarged EU.

"It is nationalism that tore Yugoslavia apart, and it will be nationalism, albeit masked in economic terms, that may rip apart the euro zone and the enlarged EU," the Slovenian poet and cultural critic Aleš Debeljak told me in an interview in August 2013 in Vienna, where he was on a Bosch fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences.

Instead Mr. Ritter, a Democrat who said this month that he would not seek a second term this fall, ripped into three initiatives on the November ballot that he called "backward-thinking," including two that would make Tabor even more strict.

Back in early July, comedian Jimmy Fallon tripped on a rug in his kitchen, caught his wedding ring on the counter as he fell, and suffered a gruesome injury called a "ring avulsion"– basically, a medical term for ripping your finger off.

He and his partner Sarah are currently redesigning their home to reflect what he calls society's greater gender fluidity – a term Clarkson would rip him to shreds for uttering.