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
The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state. Planet Sun
After all, the Bible expressly says that what God has joined no man should put asunder and that anyone who divorces except for reasons of unfaithfulness is committing adultery. Religious leaders agree on abortion in health care reform debate
It is an issue that threatens to tear asunder the world-wide Anglican Communion and it may even cause a split in the Church of Ireland, both North and South.
His cousin the pandour died in Vienna, and, as Trenck believed that he had left him a fortune of some millions, he tore his tender ties asunder, and hastened to Vienna to receive this rich inheritance, which, to his astonishment, he found to consist not in millions, but in law processes. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
It [sic] steatites for instance I have specimens of every degree of induration from the hardness of soap to the most compact polished jasper and they illustrate the fact of jaspers being indurated steatites, so clearly and fully that I cannot find in my heart to keep them asunder. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Parts torn asunder, whether nerves, or cartilages, or epiphyses, or parts separated at symphyses, cannot possibly be restored to their former state; but callus is quickly formed in most cases, yet the use of the limb is preserved. Instruments Of Reduction
He knew that on the highest floor a devil would tear the fiber asunder, that it would then go to the scutcher, and have the dust and dirt blown away, then that carding machines would lay all the fibers parallel, that drawing machines would group them into slender ribbons, and a roving machine twist them into a soft cord, and then that a mule or a throstle would spin the roving into yarn, and the yarn would go to the weaving-rooms, where a thousand wonderful machines would turn them into miles and miles of calico; the machines doing all the hard work, while women and girls adjusted and supplied them with the material. The Measure of a Man
If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder.
Thus was launched the great Dot War that is tearing the nation asunder. Times, Sunday Times
Their lives were torn asunder by the tragedy.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
A curtain had fallen . My holy of holies asunder and new gods had to be installed.
It some such fashion the periodic strokes of the smaller ether waves accumulate, till the atoms on which their timed impulses impinge are jerked asunder, and what we call chemical decomposition ensues. Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
Such are the tectonic forces trying to rip this place asunder, it seems almost a case of have a look while it's still here. Times, Sunday Times
At the same moment a motion is set up which pulls the divided pairs asunder, making the interval of sarcode to grow constantly greater between them. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
Ladon, Pheres, Demodocus; his gleaming sword shears off Strymonius 'hand as it rises to his throat; he strikes Thoas on the face with a stone, and drives the bones asunder in a shattered mass of blood and brains. The Aeneid of Virgil
Nor can there be a question of its being arragonite, because this mineral might indeed fall asunder "of itself," but in that case the newly-formed powder ought to be crystalline. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
All told, the cradle of civilization has been tearing asunder for some 30 million years.
There is nothing, nothing in the world, which will tear us asunder!
Elizabeth's Forland, after her majestie's name, and sailing more northerly alongst that coast, he descried another forland with a great gut, baye, or passage, divided as it were two maine lands or continents asunder. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
There have been no single straws - more a gross of wire bound bales weighing down and breaking asunder a once optimistic and enthusiastic camel's back.
And as he looked he seemed to see back through the past to a time when neither white man nor Indian was in the land, and ever he saw the same Stewart River, winter upon winter, breasted with ice, and spring upon spring bursting that ice asunder and running free. Chapter VIII
It gave a sharp kling-klang like a suddenly struck cymbal -- and lo! ... the marble floor yawned asunder, and the banquet-table with all its costly fruits and flowers vanished underground with the swiftness of lightning! Ardath
You'd almost describe the addition of the danceable element and becalmed melody-heavy tracks near the end as their polishing themselves up were it not for that such elements are rent asunder by the sheer bloody minded power of the fuzztone assault of Windett's guitar against the rhythm section's churning Kraut-disco inventiveness. The Line Of Best Fit
We all need to honor Senator Kennedy by using our utterances and actions to mend an America which some would rather see rend asunder. center left Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
The Princess Bride starts off as a story a grandfather reads to his sick grandson. The story is about the love between a princess and a farm boy, how these two are torn asunder, and then reunited.
It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a chess-board. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater.
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He set to work and made a good job of it, with a pledget of lint and strips of plaister, and meanwhile I speculated as to why, in all these bottles and jars and gallipots, neither nature nor art could contrive to store a drug magistral for the blow that had riven my heart asunder. The Yeoman Adventurer
He was big enough to combine what others put asunder. Christianity Today
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.
The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
And upon tearing her world asunder in a moment, the forces leave her to go be insane somewhere else, and she doesn't even know what the fuck. points out how there is this 'interstice' between what we consider real-life and what is urban mythology. Anime Nano!
The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory.
During this interesting period, which might be called their chrysalid state, they are twisted and turned, sometimes sawn asunder, parts lopped off here and applied elsewhere, and all those radical changes made which would utterly destroy anything possessed of protean possibilities inferior to those of the common Western frame house. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
The least rent or puncture might, if not immediately checked and repaired, split the whole garment asunder and expose its wearer in all his human vulnerability.
The death of a regicide was a sort of gala to these belles; while the lead was melting over the furnace, the iron pinchers heating in the fire, and the horses disposed for tearing asunder the four quarters of the victim of the laws, some of them amused themselves with an innocent game at cards, in sight of all these terrible preparations, from which a man of ordinary feeling would avert his looks with horror. Paris as It Was and as It Is
And our name shall be a cannon-shot, before which your Lodge, in the pleasantness whereof ye take pastime, shall be blown into ruins; and we will be as a wedge to split asunder the King's Oak into billets to heat a brown baker's oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
The Covenanters now became reckless and wild, for again torn asunder by the "cess" controversy (a dispute arose as to whether it was lawful to pay the tax or "cess" raised for an unlawful object, the carrying on of a Government persecuting the true Kirk) they were but The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Some canonists argued on the pope's authority as ‘vicar of Christ,’ because the pope, being something more than a man, can put asunder a marriage!
The doublet was rent asunder by imperial decree, as when a lapidist melts the mastic that holds in deception adamant and glass, while real diamond stands all fire short of the hydro-oxygen flame. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
To the Romantic sensibility such a [dualist] universe could not be endured, and the central enterprise common to many post-Kantian German philosophers and poets, as well as to Coleridge and Wordsworth, was to join together the ‘subject 'and ‘object' that modern intellection had put asunder, and thus to revivify a dead nature, restore its concreteness, significance, and human values, and re-domiciliate man in a world which had become alien to him. Byron and Romantic Occidentalism
The house was ripped asunder by the explosion.
Item, that the fleete shal keep together, and not separate themselues asunder, as much as by winde and weather may be done or permitted, and that the Captaines, Pilots and masters shall speedily come aboord the Admiral, when and as often as he shall seeme to haue iust cause to assemble them for counsaile or consultation to be had concerning the affaires of the fleete and voyage. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The stone was rent asunder / apart.
Martyr, she would have preferred to be torn asunder with one jerk, rather than submit to the thumbkin. The Getting of Wisdom
The oratorio's text accordingly contained references to "breaking bonds asunder" and "casting away yokes," recalling the early Christian belief that the Messiah's reign would bring liberty (Hebrew deror or debt cancellation) and release (Greek aphesis) from debt bondage. Slugger O'Toole
And when, describing the family-dividing sea-storm, he says "our helpful ship was splitted in the midst", the massive walls of Bunny Christie's set are rent asunder. The Comedy of Errors, Olivier, London | Theatre review
All the harrowing cruelties and separations which attend the rending asunder of families and the sale of slaves, were enacted under the eyes of the youthful philanthropist, and in a burning article he denounced the inter-State slave-trade as piracy, and piracy of an aggravated and cruel kind, inasmuch as those born and educated in civilized and Christianized society have more sensibility to feel the evils thus inflicted than imbruted savages. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
So the King bade them retire a bowshot from the horse; whereupon quoth its owner, “O King, see thou; I am about to mount my horse and charge upon thy host and scatter them right and left and split their hearts asunder.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
(Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta) -- by rending asunder the one mountain these two rocks are said to have formed, although now they are eighteen miles apart. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)
These "Gates" are a high rocky conical elevation attached to a plain jutting into the bottom on one side of the river precisely opposite to the bluff rocky termination of a plain of considerable height, on the other side, but three or four hundred yards asunder; which gives to them the appearance of formidable gates, and they were thus named by Lewis and Clark. Life in the Rocky Mountains
Many of the white people in those provinces take little or no care of negro marriages; and when negroes marry after their own way, some make so little account of those marriages that with views of outward interest they often part men from their wives by selling them far asunder, which is common when estates are sold by executors at vendue. IV. 1757, 1758
Thus the world is now a Witness to the fate Rev. Moonhas fallen to as being "cut asunder" instead of the destiny he was to have risen to as being given "rulership" over "all things" written of in Luke and Matthew. The "Snare" of Judging Rev. Moon; and the Last Judgement
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf
Yet, in fact, the election was to bring a prolonged phase of division and torment that tore the Conservatives asunder.
Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
The intention is to link both fragments digitally, restoring through technology what time has put asunder. The Times Literary Supplement
Let the Unionists expose themselves and rend one another asunder.
The three vessels were not more than half a cable's length asunder; that is, we were about that distance from the ship, and the lugger was a very little farther from us. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale
The Daily Mail obviously like to think that whichever latest befoulment to their world is the worst thing ever, proof that the country is going to the dogs and evidence that Britain is not only broken, but split asunder, never to be fixed. TEAMtalk Football News
Not all at once, but in short rips and tears, until you both were finally torn asunder. On Location
This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture.
Your conscience, conviction, integrity, and loyalties were torn asunder.
The influences of Webster and Calhoun, conflicting, rent asunder the American States, and the doctrine of each is the law and the oracle speaking from the Holy of Holies for his own State and all consociated with it: a faith preached and proclaimed by each at the cannon's mouth and consecrated by rivers of blood. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
In recent months, lifelong friendships have been torn asunder.
Tryal of my own, That having sometimes distilled some Woods, as particularly Box, whilst our _Caput mortuum_ remain'd in the Retort, it continued black like Charcoal, though the Retort were Earthen, and kept red-hot in a vehement Fire; but as soon as ever it was brought out of the candent Vessel into the open Air, the burning Coals did hastily degenerate or fall asunder, without the Assistance of any new The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
One ever feels his twoness, –an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder 214-215. W. E. B. Du Bois, Carol Swain, and African-American Duality
This is a field where, largely on a consultant paediatrician's say-so, families can be split asunder or parents can be convicted of very serious crimes against their children.
You ask, what if I had slipped from those Marseilles roofs, and been dashed to pieces on the cruel cobbles, or torn asunder by those ensanguined terrorists?" cries he,, swigging champagne and waving a pudgy finger. Watershed
The kraal had been ripped asunder, and the ground within the rock cleft and by the cave entrance was littered with dead sheep.
The stone was rent asunder / apart.
Full many a shield and helmet/was there 'neath sword asunder rent. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder.
as wide asunder as pole from pole
In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater.
The key to Afghanistan's future thus lies not in forging an unholy alliance after breaking the back of the Taliban, but rather in first smashing asunder devastating assumptions beginning with the misconception that Afghans would ever choose to live under a regime of corrupt Westernized bureaucrats and religiously psychotic warlords who espouse belief systems anathema to thousands of years of Afghan tribal sensibilities. Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions
An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
She first made out these words, Love-wounded Proteus; and lamenting over these and such like loving words, which she made out though they were all torn asunder, or, she said wounded (the expression Love-wounded Proteus giving her that idea), she talked to these kind words, telling them she would lodge them in her bosom as in a bed, till their wounds were healed, and that she would kiss each several piece, to make amends. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
I will not have this regiment torn asunder by such cowardly prattle. Somewhere in the Province of Massachusetts Bay there is a loyal countryman in whose farmhouse we can tarry for a night.
His sword clave the stoutest armor asunder at a blow. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
The stone was rent asunder / apart.
An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
Religion, the force that can bind a family together against an uncertain world, can also rip it asunder.
The motivation for the wire taps is to protect the Constitution not tear it â€œasunderâ€. Think Progress » BREAKING: Bush Admits Authorizing Secret Domestic Spying Program
Smith and Bryant could not overcome their opponents' vivid word images of immigrant families split asunder.
These know not the figure syllepsis, by which one name is put for many, and many for one; as Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews says, "They were sawn asunder," [Heb 11: 37] when it is thought that one only, Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
And the air here was of a great thickness and abundancy, even as it might be the air of this our Age; or maybe more or maybe less; for who may compare two matters with a sure guessing, that do have an eternity to keep them asunder. The Night Land
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4.
Being there helped me realise that I was kinda rent asunder from the happy nest I had there. Pisces Moon.
Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet.
The Valar went about making a perfect, wonderful world but Melkor was always there ... scorching or freezing, upheaving flat lands, renting asunder the valleys, poisoning the waters, riling the oceans, etc. GOP Congressman Ferguson Retiring
Vows declaring two individuals permanently one in the sight of God, a bond no one may put asunder, are taken as mostly a quaint rhetoric or archaic poetry.
For we must clearly see that a division in the Church on this old controverted subject would be like sawing a living man asunder; for it would be tearing the living body of Christ asunder, that is, if the Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
In Poland, like a devil in possession, he tore asunder the body he inhabited; but it was long before any man dreamed that such disjected limbs could live again. The Crimes of England
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 being flung forward. Riding the South Sea Surf
One of his favourite haunts was the very end of the "coombe," which, -- sharply cutting down to the shore, -- seemed there to have split asunder with volcanic force, hurling itself apart to right and left in two great castellated rocks, which were piled up, fortress-like, to an altitude of about four hundred or more feet, and looked sheer down over the sea. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
When the carses were a morass, the narrow space between them and the Lennox hills afforded the chief, if not the only line of communication between the northern and southern parts of the island, nearly cut asunder by the Friths of Clyde and Forth.
She looked very charming and imposing in her evening dress, but when Betty ventured to admire it she was informed that it was "A rag, my dear -- a prehistoric _rag_!" and warned that at any moment the worn-out fabric might be expected to fly asunder, when "As you love me, fling yourself upon me, and _hurl_ me from the room! Betty Trevor
fetter" on the technological means of production, a fetter that is ready to be burst asunder. Warren Ellis
In this form it is carried into the radicle by vessels appropriated to that purpose; and in the mean time, the fermentation having caused the seed to burst, the cotyledons are rent asunder, the radicle strikes into the ground and becomes the root of the plant, and hence the fermented liquid is conveyed to the plumula, whose vessels have been previously distended by the heat of the fermentation. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Then the twain drew asunder and returned each to his own camp, where both related to their comrades what had befallen them in the duello; and at last the Frank said to his men, “Tomorrow shall decide the matter!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.

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