Sentence examples for torn corner from inspiring English sources

But if it's got a torn corner — or it's signed, or if maybe instead of being inside a basketball it's behind a backboard — he thinks, It wasn't there before, but he can't get over there.

War diaries meticulously record the day-to-day goings-on of each of the hundreds of battalions that filled a torn corner of northern Europe.

The label in question is a torn corner of an Express Mail receipt from a package of human growth hormone and needles sent to McNamee in Houston, but supposedly intended for Clemens.

Held down by weights on a low wooden table inside a Brooklyn loft, the large mural had suffered numerous wounds: bleeding ink, buckled paper, a torn corner and light brown staining.

As she points to a torn corner on the backing paper of a framed daguerreotype, Ledamoisel illustrates this plainly: "I decided not to do a reintegration there.

They both grabbed for the plate of flatbreads... and tore corners at the discus-sized breads.

To show the texture and purpose of the blotter paper tabs we tore corners off and poked tabs out, scattering them across the floor alongside other props that reminded us of burnout (a charging cable) and escapism (junk food).

Paul used to collect what are known as plate blocks, which are the four attached corner stamps, torn from one corner of a sheet of stamps — the upper left, or right corners, or any of the four corners, which include the margin, or border of the sheet, on which information about the stamp is printed.

HONG KONG ― The world's most powerful storm this year battered this skyscraper-studded metropolis on Sunday, collapsing bamboo scaffolding, tearing the corner off a building and slamming the waterfront with nearly 13-foot surges. .

Within an hour, a group of black aldermen marched into the administrative offices of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, removing a painting (and tearing a corner in the process), then marching into the school president's office and threatened to burn the painting.

In the picture, sepia, torn at one corner, Alona was smiling, but Ike, wherever they were, looked sombre.