rip up

VERB
  1. tear into shreds
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How To Use rip up In A Sentence

  • On top of all that he's willing to try completely new things and rip up the script.
  • We had to rip up wooden floors, as well as floors that had carpet or other covering.
  • A trip up the Thames from Southend-On-Sea to the Houses of Parliament provides him with many fine opportunities to indulge in his own idiosyncratic brand of taradiddles and horseplay.
  • It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all. Chapter 13
  • However, I did read somewhere that you can rip up the dead grass, with a metal rake, and reseed.
  • The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician.
  • At dawn there is time for one last trip up the elevator.
  • It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all. Chapter 13
  • The county council refused to say whether it would agree to rip up the ticket. Archive 2008-12-01
  • If we wrote I think he would rip up the letter.
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