Sentence examples for this is torn from inspiring English sources

Like many Bibles, it has a flounce, or valance, of leather protecting its edges, and this is torn and crumbling, while its boards are cracked, and small wonder.

This was tear gas.

"This was tearing us apart," he says.

This is tears become...streams become… an installation by Turner-Prize winning artist Douglas Gordon that features ten nights of performances by renowned pianist Hélène Grimaud.

It is about time, they say, that this scruffy slum is torn down.

In capitalism, this source of authority is torn in two.

The family is torn by this loss".

It is torn, tugged this way and that, involved in conflicts and choices.

"This fight is tearing this town apart".

"You definitely see that this adoption is tearing this couple apart," Jaeger told HuffPost TV via phone.

[Laughs.] But you definitely see that this adoption is tearing this couple apart and in the second-to-last episode this week, things really come to a head.