How To Use Ripped In A Sentence

If the stylist is still alive and well today, it’s only because Ms. Houston hadn’t also tripped over the long train on that gown, but I’d venture a guess that his or her days of working for Whitney are Oh-Oh-Ooooh-Oh-ver. Whitney Houston wardrobe malfunction: Yikes, she really didn't need that... | EW.com
Tornadoes ripped into the southern United States yesterday.
I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.
They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
They left behind a huge pile of ripped bin bags overflowing with pizza boxes and cans. The Sun

During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.
I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
About a year ago, we took everything out of the rooms, stripped out the floor, put in new 1-inch pavers through the whole area, and then brought in the new pasteurizer and re-piped the entire system.
He always wiped the dirt or snow off, tucked his ripped shirt-tail in, or went yuk-yuk-yuk as he rubbed his reddening ass-cheeks, and the hate hardly ever showed. Blaze
The pace things were going meant that liquidity demands would have outstripped liquidity resources. Times, Sunday Times
In his hurry to leave the room, he tripped over a chair.
Millions of consumer electronics devices - mobile phones, PDAs, PVRs, and DVD platers - are already running on stripped-down embedded versions of Linux.
Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
If you place the access outside, be sure it is insulated and weatherstripped against both the elements and intrusion by insects or small animals.
Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
Verity, in her high heels and straight skirt, tripped over the blocks Ben had thrown out of his playpen.
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
He is alone with his terrors gripped by feelings of desperation and living at the limits.
Then several wardresses came in, stripped me, put me into prison clothes and took me to another cell. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
He gripped her shoulders and made her face him, his concern turning to worry.
Dey allowed de patterollers to snoop around an 'whup de slaves, mother said dey stripped some of de slaves naked an' whupped 'em. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
In most cases, each song is given melodic depth by MacKaye's baritone guitar and Farina's stripped-kit drumming.
The child tripped lightly like a bird.
But the detailed financial information that will be dripped out in coming weeks means they are also going to have to spend some time explaining the past. Times, Sunday Times
He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
He gripped the edge of the nearest inspection plate and ripped a quarter of it away.
I rose from my seat and tripped over the legs of the make-out slurper beside me. Stupid Cupid
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
Shops were ripped open and their contents strewn through the dusty streets. Times, Sunday Times
The recent diminution on the international scene of these three nations means less illustrious sides are no longer gripped with a fear factor when facing what have tended to be considered behemoths of the game.
Even as he watched, a droplet of water dripped heavily down from a stalactite far overhead, landing in the pond with fat, lazy ripples.
Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
The nail ripped a hole in my jacket.
He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
In December, experts warned that many retirees who do look to take their business elsewhere are being ripped off by unscrupulous brokers. Times, Sunday Times
The story gripped the global media. Times, Sunday Times
She quickly ripped the paper free and thrust it into my hands.
The dragon roared and forced its claws in and ripped its hole wider in an attempt to force its way into the town.
They wolf-whistled at me, and I was so embarrassed I tripped up.
This left the US-funded base to be stripped bare by locals.
Mike and Buddy take a cash advance and go into town to get ripped.
He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
The mountain slopes that had been stripped were covered in bush and vines.
A shock of raven-black hair gripped his scalp tightly and fell down past his shoulders.
A terrorist bomb ripped through the town's packed shopping centre.
Has a sudden outbreak of politesse gripped the Internet?
A feeding frenzy ensued - within minutes the unfortunate man was stripped of his clothes.
She gripped a fancy mat which covered an ornate table by her side, and dragged a begilded vase on to the floor without even noticing it. The Box with Broken Seals
My fatuous school blazer was stripped from my shoulders and replaced with a leather waistcoat. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
Dressed again in wadmal, leather gloves, leather apron, and wooden shoes, beard and mane full of the soot that blackened his skin, the dwarf gripped a piece with tongs and banged it into shape. Operation Luna
There’s also a type known as stem lettuce, or celtuce; it’s especially popular in Asia for its prominent and crisp stalk, which is stripped of its small leaves, peeled, sliced, and cooked. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Recent reported cheetah deaths suggest that some of the cats had their stomachs ripped open by hidden branches.
Compton kept her balance, bobbling only once in the extremely loose, off-camber right-hander that tripped up a number of riders. Katie Compton wins day 2 of the Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival
Most Hollywood films, particularly science fiction films, are these days a mass of overfamiliar and uncredited cliches that have been ripped off and merged together, usually not very intelligently.
No sooner the rains began, traffic crawled, trees fell, power tripped and Bangaloreans waded home with a sense of déjà vu.
Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the words were easier than I'd expected, but one of them tripped me up, so I only got 9 right out of 10.
Using its front legs the giant water bug gripped the turtle inserting its syringe-like rostrum into the prey's neck in order to feed.
I spun to my left, sword gripped in my right hand horizontally, pointed to my right at neck level. Hero for Hire « A Fly in Amber
It was partially stripped and disassembled, basically thousands of parts in boxes and no directions!
Terry stripped down to her bra and pants and tried on the dress.
They discover some pirate treasure at the bottom of the ocean, while looking ripped, tanned and clad in the skimpiest of skimpy clothes.
A market trader has told how he faces going out of business after overnight raiders stripped his van of £10,000 worth of goods.
He has no problem with council handiwork such as the O'Connell Street plaza being ripped up, if necessary.
All of her jeans were torn and ripped at the knees and hem, and were patched in many places as well.
She was hot and sweat dripped into her eyes.
I finished work today, go to pick the car up and lo and behold some scruffy twoccers have smashed the window, nicked the stereo which is no good because I kept the face with me and completely ripped all the ignition out.
A similar ‘group hysteria,’ he adds, gripped hundreds of birders in California, who for days mistakenly took a skylark for a Smith's longspur.
Yasu ripped it open and pulled out the biggest black sword you have ever seen!
The parquet in the salon is arranged in an escalier pattern, gleaned rather than ripped off from a medieval painting. Times, Sunday Times
What that meant was that no more of the existing metal deck roof would be stripped off each day than could be re-covered that day.
The blast yesterday ripped through crowds of pilgrims and vendors of food and religious paraphernalia. Times, Sunday Times
The original interior has been stripped back to its bare shell and the exposed structure sandblasted.
As a healthier alternative to refined white sugar, I chose granulated cane juice, which has not been stripped of all its nutrients.
The fast-acting toxin can be sprayed into a victim's face or dripped into food or water. The Sun
They simply ripped them limb from limb in the second half with a ferociously determined and hungry display which left Cork begging for mercy.
I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
Yet the thought of being emotionally vulnerable had him gripped with fear. Times, Sunday Times
This is country style with a grace and lightness that makes a welcome change from the usual heavy stripped pine.
The hard math problem tripped up most of the students.
He tripped lightly into a bus.
When the garment is ripped apart (facings, hem, everything) and the thread bits discarded, SEW THE GARMENT TOGETHER AGAIN -- just for practice! Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
The Fishwife herself, who gave me the young plants, says that her own crop failed – the tomatoes caught blight from the potatoes in her allotment and had to be ripped up and thrown away. Archive 2009-09-01
Without her I wouldn't have the mental image of Dick Cheney decked out like Rambo with a belt fed machine gun in one hand, and bandoleers crossed over his ripped chest, standing in the city street in front of some WW2 tanks. Tired of pink men.
So close was it that the point ripped a gash in the jutting edge of his linen cyclas. The White Company
The room was stripped bare but there was no doubt that it was at one time a child's room.
I have gone along with your idea and gone onstage wearing same, to be stripped off by a colonel. Times, Sunday Times
Bodyboarder Boarder ripped apart in 'perfect spot' for shark attack DARK seas, whales and seals had created "perfect shark conditions" when a 21-year-old bodyboarder was bitten in half and instantly killed by a suspected great white at a West Australian surf break. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The dustbins containing my bird seed and nuts were blown over, a section of fencing was ripped out during the night.
Stripped of their tough skins with a vegetable peeler or paring knife, broccoli stems make a delicious, slightly crunchy addition to any broccoli dish.
As a result gas fires are being ripped out and more economical wood-burning stoves are being installed in their place. Times, Sunday Times
The pair were making their way down another staircase when the explosion ripped through the building.
Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
They argued that the law was unconstitutional as it stripped them of their intellectual property rights without compensation. Times, Sunday Times
A massive explosion ripped through the building.
I gripped slender pillars where the floor looked frail. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
When my nightstands started showing their age, I ripped pages out of an old atlas and refaced the drawers with maps. A Dollar Here, a Dollar There. But So What?
Stripped of any political content, today's conflicts in Northern Ireland are now what many wrongly assumed them to be during the Troubles: base, atavistic, sectarian clashes.
One of the striking things that stand out with gymnasts are their amazing arms and shoulders ... even the guy who finished 30th at Nationals was ripped with each and every nuance of the deltoids, triceps and biceps shredded.
An election that was initially greeted with general disinterest has since been transformed into one that has gripped the nation, due in no small part to the jolt of energy provided by the unexpected, and game changing, emergence of Nick Clegg and the 'Cleggmania' he inspired. UK Election: Candidates Make Final Push For Votes
He was stripped of his official posts as he increasingly championed democratic reform. Times, Sunday Times
Then he tripped over his own feet and fell flat on his face.
The entire community has been gripped by fear.
On my first attempt – the one I ripped out on May 31 – I centered the decreases, and purled the vital stitch on the wrong side. Jean's Knitting
I've just parcelled my first bit of ripped up junkmail back in its prepaid envelope and sent it back from whence it came.
One person bellowed as he gripped the metal tube in his meaty hands.
I mean, the trees are stripped of their leaves and branches, but also the storm surge has had the most devastating result.
He caught hold of the neck of the offending garment and ripped it clean to the hem.
Keep your efforts consistent and try to stay focused on your goal of becoming the number-one contender in the fight to get ripped.
The country became gripped by the new awareness that major changes had to be made in manufacturing. The Global Marketplace
I suspect that paint is being stripped in Wanganui.
This terraced house is undergoing refurbishment, retaining period features such as open fireplaces and stripped wooden floors. Times, Sunday Times
It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
The clip is inserted in the magazine well and an internal spring loaded follower pushes fresh cartridges up within the clip as they are stripped off by the bolt.
The paint coating the frame was peeling and a small flake was ripped off by a breeze and was carried away.
A smile that could have been ripped from the Cheshire cats face spread across Hilary's smug phizog.
I've ripped my trousers - can you stitch them up for me?
The walls have been stripped bare.
Stripped of its own genetic instructions, the recipient egg cell is a tiny biological machine awaiting orders.
On the final whistle he had already ripped the captain's armband from his shirt.
Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
And my, is he big, not so much tall as he is ripped.
The workmen were stripped to the waist .
She threw herself on her bed and ripped her shoes off, pulling her black pants on over her jeans and trying to button her black blouse with one hand.
Watchkeepers were shocked to find lifebelts knotted and thrown into the water, cables ripped out of scanners and damage to their roof when they arrived at their base yesterday morning.
Students we spoke to agreed the campus is gripped by an extreme drinking culture fuelled by cheap booze at Northern prices. The Sun
Sold some books and was ripped off by the unpleasant second-hand bookseller.
Along the way the potholes got filled, the cobbles were nicely asphalted, the hoardings were stripped of their multi-layered messages, and the chill damp was replaced with warmth and light.
The explosion ripped through the steel hull of Cole on the port side amidships with a deafening roar.
They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo. Chapter XXVII. The Sunday Wash-Up-On Shore-A Set-To-A Grandee-“Sail Ho!”-A Fandango
Perhaps you are gripped by anxiety before giving a talk.
Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity! Darkness and Dawn
Not since Clay was stripped of his world title for conscientiously objecting to serving in Vietnam has a sportsman suffered as grave an injustice as this cricketer.
Every morning each bed had to be stripped and remade with freshly ironed linen.
Briefly, the moonlight was obscured by a cloud and an unreasonable fear gripped me as I realised I could not see the statues.
Doug reached out and gripped his ear, like an old style schoolmarm. SNOWJOB
He lost so much fat that he was able to transform his flabby body into a shredded physique complete with ripped abs!
Or, perhaps, the bard received inspiration by drinking magic water from the fountain called Hippocrene, or the skaldic mead which dripped from the moon. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
In the final findings for bidders to use in preparation for the lease sale, published November 9th, Division of Oil and Gas officials say the U-S State Department has notified Alaska of the title dispute, and that potential bidders should? be prepared for [...] (HTML is stripped out and links are not linked.) MP3Board.com
As he did so the big man quickly grabbed his arms and the woman stripped his armour breastplate away, and he was frogmarched towards a small crag.
Through him ripped: Yes, the enemy did have an emergency force hidden in a building near the square, and somebody in this room used a minicom to bring them. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
Any athletes who tested positive could be stripped of any medals or disqualified from competition. Times, Sunday Times
Officials charge these loggers then set forest fires and stripped trees of their bark in order to get the death certificates required to cut them down.
His hands gripped pallidly upon the rail, and they were white with more than just the chill brine of the sea.
The child gripped its mother's arm.
She stripped nude to clean out the fridge and Chris decided to sit with a beer and watch.
The hippies ripped off the grocery store.
My son stripped my watch and couldn't assemble it.
She was left with a puncture wound to the buttock and ripped trousers.
A team stripped of core players were thrashed by the European champions who cruised into the quarter-finals with a game to spare. Times, Sunday Times
The entrance to Zito's flat, like his ceilings, is going to be ripped apart in favor of chic black and deep purple. USATODAY.com - Pitching the Zen of Zito
He stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch.
Instantly, one of the hydrogen atoms on the ethanol molecule is ripped off.
By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
She is dressed as a beggar maid, her bare shoulders and knees showing through her ripped attire, her gaze unflinching. Times, Sunday Times
I glared at him as he walked over to the counter and ripped a piece of paper off the roll.
As she lifted herself up from the computer console, walking towards her cabin in a dizzy, almost vertiginous way, she tripped on a sharp object.
As we approached the levelling-out stage she prepared to move forward, tripped and fell full length.
When the couple got up the next morning they found the scooter flung on their lawn, its ignition ripped out, its battery damaged, and the seat vandalised.
Riders were getting their raw and ripped skin attended to by the St John's volunteers and others were getting more serious injuries like broken bones assessed by doctors on the scene.
He tripped and fell on the final lap.
Sir Peter Viggers, MP for Gosport, was told he would be stripped of the Tory whip unless he agreed to retire.
This was true - Generation 1 had ripped open the resource, a small bag of the colorful candies, and gobbled them up.
But as we know, the pupil has now far outstripped the master.
She grabbed the top of the blanket I was hiding under and ripped it away.
At this point in time, almost all of us are aware that an ordinary individual can't expect to take a flight without being stripped to the toenail clippers.
I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands.
He slid down to sit on the floor, facing the fireplace, its hearth stripped of ashes and as lifeless and bare as the rest of the house.
I initially went with a 4 because it was Sorcha's situation, more than Sorcha herself, that ripped into me. 32. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
He lunged at the man and his sword rammed itself between the man's ribs, grated, then a French hand gripped Sharpe's blade, blood showed at his fingers, but the man held on, tugged, and another man clawed at Sharpe's face. Sharpe's Siege
His lace-necked trainbearer tripped behind in his slipstream. Times, Sunday Times
I tripped over the guy rope of the tent in the dark.
I'll have to sew a patch onto these jeans - they're ripped at the knee.
Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
Centred on the village of Clonee, the tornado overturned cars, ripped up poles and trees and damaged houses and gardens.
The first is that it will be harder for the Tories to portray Labour as a party gripped by extremism.
When the crowd is gripped by greed, the newcomers jump in and load up on stocks.
I tripped over a roller skate in my driveway and fell.
Fire exit doors to stairwells, for example, should unlock when a fire alarm is tripped.
But in the real world, you couldn’t really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete. Sarah Dessen
Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet.
Back in the sanctuary of my dimly-lit rooms I ran the bath, stripped off and sank into the water.
But in the real world, you couldn’t really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete. Sarah Dessen
He gripped his rifle and tied it to his back, unhitching his long bowie knife.
None of it has been blancoed, none of it is ripped or torn.
Last year, the Chinese Eximbank pledged $20bn in development funds for African infrastructure and trade financing over the next three years, funds that outstripped all western donor pledges combined.
He carried the can with him into the bathroom where he stripped off his clothes and turned on the shower.
Assets were being stripped out of Germany to feed the French and the British.
As his fingers gripped the knife and tugged, the blade sliced into his palm.
It has put forward no plans, however, to force timber companies to reforest the stripped areas and made no mention of the ongoing logging activities.
We've stripped wallpaper, painted, put up skirting boards, hung blinds, panelled ceilings and clad walls.
He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob.
Hoogie, whose new coiffed hairdo is a match for Thorpe's sweeping Eurotrash look, ripped the olive branch off his head after receiving his silver medal behind the Australian.
Six had minor gunshot wounds, the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm.
French philosopher Joseph de Maistre (an antirevolution contemporary of Edmund Burke) complained that the Enlightenment types had stripped government of the mystery needed to awe the governed. A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad

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