The word "torn" is perfectly fine to use in written English
It can be used as an adjective, to describe something that has been ripped or separated into two or more pieces. For example: "The shirt was badly torn after the accident."
It had torn around round the island for about 36 hours, and given it a real thrashing, flattening vegetation, whipping off a few roofs and generally causing trouble.
Enthusiastic Wii Sports usage has seen televisions destroyed by flying remotes and a variety of injuries, including fractured limbs, dislocated knee caps, torn knee ligaments and facial injuries.
In Shia Islam, the hidden imam is predicted to reappear in Mecca and herald a new dawn of justice after the world has been torn asunder by violence and oppression.
The economy is on the brink of default and loyalties are torn between Europe and Russia.
He had inherited a kingdom torn by ideologically opposed groups, beset by unemployment, corruption, insecurity and terrorism, yet basking in a second oil boom.
Israeli analysts were torn over the impact the Fifa corruption scandal might have on an eventual vote, with some predicting that delegates might want to avoid further controversy in an already fraught congress.
Many of the school's children have a poor home life, torn apart by alcoholic fathers and a lack of regular income.
Anthony Marra's debut novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth) is set in war-torn Chechnya.
"The circumstance that torn-up current medical certificates – also pertaining to the day of the act – were found, supports, after preliminary examination, the assumption that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and his professional circles".
As legal experts warned that the airline's parent company, Lufthansa, could face compensation claims for hundreds of millions of dollars, Düsseldorf prosecutors said they had found the torn-up doctor's note covering the day of the disaster – Tuesday 24 March.
The complexity of criminal networks The networks that bring people from war-torn nations to the African shores of the Mediterranean and then on to boats are not just necessarily criminal.
