asunder

How To Use asunder In A Sentence

• And if you -- if my good angel will but be mine again I will cry 'apage' -- I tear her toils asunder. Margery — Volume 05
• Liquids, whether waters or oils, which possess a great and intense acridity, act like heat in tearing asunder bodies and burning them after some time; yet to the touch they are not hot at first. The New Organon
• This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture.
• One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. from "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk. Sunday culture.
• Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet.
• Children whose parents are split asunder by adultery have their assumptions about trust, fidelity and commitment greatly damaged.
• Smith and Bryant could not overcome their opponents' vivid word images of immigrant families split asunder.
• It is the destruction of the Al Qaeda network and terrorist organizations with global reach, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the taking asunder -- that, sir, maybe that, asunder, that is not quite as good as eviscerate -- but it has to do with taking down this illegitimate government of the Taliban that provides harbor to Al Qaeda. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2001
• But it is not the way for a man and a woman, in propinquity, to maintain a definite, unwavering distance asunder. CHAPTER XXVII
• Where was solid water beneath it, is now air, and for the first time it feels the grip of gravity, and down it falls, at the same time being torn asunder from the lagging bottom of the wave and flung forward. Excerpt From Cruise of the Snark: Surfing in Hawaii