torn

IPA: tˈɔrn

Examples of "torn" in Sentences

“Borg!” she howled, a word torn from her innermost self.
It was the work of an instant only to glance at the label torn from the picture-case.
It also contained a label torn from a pizza box, and made reference to various pizza toppings.
She was aware of Bashir watching her, eyes wide, his expression torn between protest at her treatment of a superior and reluctant agreement.
It was a little white packet, and had been opened and the label torn across, but you could read what was on it plain enough -- 'Arsenic -- Poison,' and the name of the chemist in London.
Mechanically he ran the rope under the sleeve of his life-jacket; a mighty jerk seemed likely to pull him in halves as the smack sheered; then a heavy, dragging pain came -- he was being torn, torn, _torn_.
Having stood before each of the fifty-nine canvases displayed on the third floor, this viewer at the elevator door had an impulse to run back in again, as at some lovelorn parting, and make the encounter yield a final word torn from the depths of what Henry James might have termed “the so beautifully unsaid.”