Sentence examples for torn open from inspiring English sources

"torn open" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize the idea of force or violence being used to open something. For example, "The gardener's shed had been torn open, and all of the tools were scattered across the lawn."

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Some were torn open.

A bomb has torn open the side of a house.

In December, this shroud was torn open in a northeaster.

As she looked back, she saw her mother shot down, her chest torn open by bullets.

At least one car had been torn open and was jammed on top of another.

"The casualties were usually missing limbs or were torn open and bleeding," he said.

His eye was torn open and the optical nerve laid bare.

Pictures from inside the trains showed the cars torn open and carriages crushed.

The abused adolescent boy in The Dark whose life is torn open for us.

The conflict has torn open ethnic divisions and been characterised by human rights violations.

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Gordon carried it inside and placed it on his table, this grand and mysterious, half-deflated, torn-open thing.

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