How To Use Ripping In A Sentence

In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
No one ever accused us of being over-rehearsed," Stephen Stills says at one point, shortly before he's shown tripping over a footlight on the stage and playing flat on his back while he rolls from side to side trying to get himself back up. Evan Handler: Find the Cost of Freedom (of Speech)
Avoiding tripping over the lines on deck, you then have to quant your boat through the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

Innovations in touchless technology have made it possible to install an automatic flusher without ripping out existing fixtures.
In a slow, lackluster way she began stripping the spell off the books. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
Spittle and blood spattered his lips, dripping in my mouth. Brush of Darkness
Stripping off her leather breeches and boots, and her tunic, Isabella slid into the sudsy, herbal scented water of the tub, submersing her body up to her chin.
Sasaki huddled against the hot grains of sand, gritting her teeth, curled up in a ball and hugging her shoulders as if to keep herself from ripping apart.
Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
Without warning my foothold broke and I slid downward ripping a gash in the plastic that held the containers of water together.
Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating.
Skim the fat from pan juices, and reduce the drippings by boiling them down to a delicious sauce.
The sludge from the bottom of the swamp that the dredge hauls up dripping and oozing at least has substance: you can dry it out, look at it through a microscope, describe it, or flush it down the toilet.
Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister
These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them. Work Camp 934 L
His is a gripping peregrination and one rich with detail and informed insights. Times, Sunday Times
Most visibly, it has transformed the British day out - you can't visit even the most two-bit town these days without tripping over its spangly new heritage centre or interactive museum.
Water was dripping onto the floor.
I stayed there for three days, until the snow began to melt, dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof.
She's tripping because you left her high and dry.
There is a splendid tale of the latter, his pen dripping in irony and vitriol, composing a letter to the United board congratulating them on their ground improvements in the aftermath of his own promises to build a new stadium.
This may include modifying the environment by moving objects such as electrical cords or furniture to reduce tripping and falling.
Another online tool landed last week that is just as gripping: one that shows the gender pay gap in your occupation. Times, Sunday Times
In this case, air stripping precedes a conventional biological process, while carbon adsorption is used as a final polishing step.
Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.
This gripping prequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic of the same name is just as exciting as its predecessor. The Sun
He pictured it as a liquid fiery ball, constantly dripping flames into no particular direction due to lack of gravity.
Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
With worldwide demand for nuclear skills far outstripping supply, that niche should become steadily more valuable. Times, Sunday Times
Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs.
And Scotland has a habit of tripping up from time to time - unfortunately
Lai let her hand rest on his chest and almost out of reflex he let his hand rest on hers, gripping it lightly as he shifted and settled more relaxedly in her grasp.
We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.
After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming.
I'd just spent fifteen minutes stripping all the meat left over on the chicken carcass I'd roasted for our dinner yesterday in preparation for a top-crust chicken and mushroom pie for today and my hands were dripping with grease and gunge.
Turn the rod a quarter turn every ten minutes for an hour to avoid any dripping.
I took an enormous step backward, too fast, and I stumbled, my hands crablike behind me, gripping tufts of spring grass. The Bird House
The emission hung dripping over the river like mist and in the forest like ground fog.
Still, even as he ran to the car, dripping sweat and bleeding from the gash in his forehead, with the river already up to the wheel wells, he realized that the choices he had just made said something about who he was. Publication of 3rd place string of 10
Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island. Storm Strikes Central Japan
Water is dripping from the roof.
After irradiation, the stratum corneum was removed from the pigskin by stripping with adhesive tape.
the constant sound of dripping irritated him
Quickly stripping down to my underwear and bra, I dashed towards my closet.
My white bikini was brown and dripping. Times, Sunday Times
Gits Drummer Steve Moriarity Comments On Mia Zapata Killer's Reinstated Prison Sentence Butt Powder: Sitek should stop ripping off the early 4AD catalo ... The Tripwire
Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She came to the party dripping with gold .
He looked even worse than before, only this time he had beads of sweat dripping down his sallow skin and his nostrils were flared in his over-large nose.
Failure to check the street or driveway for dripping antifreeze, which is poison for pets, is the cause of another common holiday pet problem. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Her voice is good if not emotionally gripping and her songs have an attractive quality but an edgy stimulant is sadly lacking.
What will be different in this test-fire is the mesh pattern produced when the bullet passes through the window screen before ripping through the Harley jacket and buzz-sawing a swath through the chest of Mr. Jell-O, as he calls his ordnance-gelatin test dummies. Predator
With all the travel rorts and credit card misuses by politicians and high officials that have been exposed in recent times, this further instance of ripping off the taxpayer was sure to ignite public opinion.
The room was completely silent other than the sound of dripping water from a corner of the room.
The story was gripping and it kept me on the edge of my seat. The Sun
The result is a gripping examination of generational change and a moving tribute to heroism. Times, Sunday Times
He has forced himself into the position by gripping the bat right at the bottom of the handle.
The series was gripping and well-acted. The Sun
An egg had been thrown at their front door, the yolk dripping down the glass panel. Times, Sunday Times
A small hand reached from behind him, ripping his belly open, spilling out his guts.
Some of them had their hands dripping with glue as they pasted old papers onto clay sculptures.
Stripping asbestos insulation off boilers and from fire barriers, decommissioning chemicals and munitions factories, making damaged nuclear reactors safe, and clearing landmines are examples.
Carefully stripping away centuries of paint, the scientists uncovered a valuable old wall painting.
I bit my lip as I noticed that his hair was wet but not dripping, as if he'd just shaken the water droplets out.
At the extreme, tax advantages gave rise to downright asset stripping.
Chelsea gave a choke of laughter, almost tripping in the process.
The pipe is dripping .
I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself.
Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
By the time I ran outside he had spread his wings and soared into the sky gripping the pigeon with his talons.
Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food. Down and Out in Paris and London
Justin grinned, staring out into space, his hands still gripping tightly onto the handles of the controls.
Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature. The Times Literary Supplement
It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much. Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words
From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
Jillian and Graham sat on either side of a silver-plated candelabrum, its twin red candles dripping wax onto the paper tablecloth, empty coffee cups in front of them.
They are squeezed and pasteurized and, if they are not bound for frozen concentrate, are kept in aseptic storage, which involves stripping the juice of oxygen in a process called "deaeration," and kept in million-gallon tanks for up to a year. ABC News: Top Stories
Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.
Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway, his heart tripping frantically, his breathing too fast to be comfortable.
It is ripping down the cultural and linguistic barriers which have divided us. THE AGE OF CONSENT
Those ten minutes translated into distance as half a mile of wading through six inch deep troughs of muddy water, half a mile of sliding and tripping over loose rocks and embedded stones.
She had spotted him sitting in one corner, dark except for the candle on the table, which was dripping hot wax onto the rough, wooden table.
Some were histrionic tragic performances dripping with sensibility. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
From somewhere -- he couldn't tell where -- came the minute plink of dripping water. GRACE
Lucrezia now appears to be less the bride of Bartolomeo than the bride of Christ – the red of her dress matching the blood dripping from the base of the cross. Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
In addition, there are portable tripping devices that can be placed on the track to automatically stop trains by engaging their emergency breaks.
Penalties Back to top Period Team Time Player Type Level 1st period TOR 4: 34 Ian White high-sticking minor NJ 7: 17 Mike Mottau interference minor 2nd period TOR 5: 37 Nikolai Kulemin hooking minor 3rd period NJ: 55 Colin White tripping minor TOR 1: 11 Nikolai Kulemin holding stick minor TOR 4: 58 Matt Stajan holding minor NJ 8: 32 Bryce Salvador hooking minor NJ 10: 40 Mike Mottau tripping minor USATODAY.com
With the state industrial sector largely idle, many citizens reportedly rely on state asset stripping, hoarding, trading and personal farm plots to survive.
That horror films are mainstream in cinema is now a given, and whatever cul-de-sac horror literature finds itself in is the one its publishers put it in by swaddling it all in shiny black covers, adorned with skulls and snakes and rats and typefaces dripping blood … GR5: The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom « In The Gloaming Podcasts
Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes (Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there) -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity? Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
I have noted that many individuals appear to take particular delight in ripping apart errors in journal articles. The Volokh Conspiracy » God Forbid That Some For-Profit Business Should Benefit While You Help People
We have recently installed push button taps to stop dripping and wastage, and now they are looking at introducing water hogs for the toilet cistern to save on water.
Lauren relates her story in a simple time sequence and gives telling details which make the narration gripping.
A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
But some of the silk eveningwear was fit for the most glamorous of parties, apron bibs floating across the chest then twisting into straps over the shoulders and asymmetrically across the back before dripping into a train.
Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso. The Bachelor: Grace Dent's TV OD
Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
She flipped it over and quickly started ripping it open.
Both horse and rider were dripping with sweat within five minutes.
Perhaps they should have considered ripping off a tallish Scotsman. Peter Robinson's 2011 music roundup
Elsewhere he emerges limp and dripping from a lake, the opposite of a triumphant James Bond coming to shore. Meet the best new artists in Britain
I was unwillingly compelled to take pleasure in the first hour and a half of the descent from the top of the Lukmanier towards Disentis, but this is only a ripping over of the brimfulness of Italy on to the Swiss side. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
To be clear, women, regardless of race, are outstripping men in college enrollment and graduation.
A porch extended from the kitchen to a trellised walk dripping wisteria in the spring.
And you don’t see that much difference between men’s and women’s uniforms in fencing where it would be stupid, *stupid* to leave the body unprotected or the rest of martial arts that don’t hinge on gripping the opponent’s clothes like karate or taekwondo. THE SEXUALIZATION OF FEMALE OLYMPIADS » Sociological Images
He said the party would rally against the stripping of national assets for the enrichment of a handful of private individuals.
Child 44 is a remarkable debut novel - inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Book summary
Retailers have attributed weakened sales in part to inflation outstripping pay. Times, Sunday Times
Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan. Mary Anerley
Uplift of this magnitude could have occurred during Hercynian times with the stripping of considerable amounts of Carboniferous overburden.
As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes.
My voice was dripping with sarcasm, however he didn't seem to notice.
A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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The adequate preparation is often achieved by ripping the land when the soil has good moisture, followed by chisel ploughing and the use of a fine harrow for fine seed preparation.
This is a sentence that, in my dotage, is far less likely to pass my lips and fingertips than it once was, back when I was positively dripping with vim and vigour.
Water is dripping from the faucet
When the men with ripping muscles and lean frames slapped their arms and thighs in gusto and let out a Viking war cry, the entire place reverberated with the loud sharp blows.
Thorough caulking and weatherstripping will control most of these air leaks.
The hiss turned into a scream, this one more like a ship's keel ripping apart under pressure than a triumphant blood-chilling cry like before.
Brush the potatoes with a little melted butter or dripping.
Back at the Hub, the Thursday night rehearsal breaks for coffee and everyone swarms towards the teacups neatly stacked at the back of the hall amid the dripping brollies and discarded coats.
The spring water was dripping from 10 pairs of stalactites, each over 100 metres in length.
She clung on like a leech, her fingers tightly gripping his shoulders, and Ben could clearly hear her heart beating as well as his own.
Gripping a hand rail, she waited for the door of the air lock to open.
The pan drippings gave gravies and soups a deliciously rich background of flavor.
I dislike the acts who hang on to the curtains, dripping sweat and beg you to applaud their efforts.
I quickly scrabbled off the floor and ran to the bathroom; stripping off my clothes in a hurry.
Stripping out exceptionals and adjusting for onerous lease contracts, profits fell.
He might have been an ebony statue, larger than life, his hands gripping the arms of the chair.
Ripping is done in narrow bands or planting furrows at a regular interval from each other in dry season.
Adjustable pliers open to various widths, and the gripping surface of the jaw is grooved for a stronger hold.
It's amazing the impact a cracked light switch, dripping tap, or dirty grouting can have on the unforgiving eye.
Confused, I eased myself from the water and walked round the pool edge, flabby and dripping.
She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.
The trees not only survive, but thrive through the process, which involves stripping off the bark and removing the cork layer beneath.
This gripping prequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic of the same name is just as exciting as its predecessor. The Sun
The chips, fried in dripping, were better than the cemented fish they accompanied. Times, Sunday Times
That door was flung back, and in the square of dripping darkness stood Creed Bonbright, his face death white, his eyes wide and fixed, the rain gemming his uncovered yellow hair. Judith of the Cumberlands
He frowned, turning to her, the spatula in his hands dripping small amounts of pancake batter.
The rest of the book is filled with such anecdotes turning what could have been quite a dry subject into something real and gripping.
Caulking and weather - stripping can save another 1,700 pounds per year.
Was she near that garage, or was the contact just tripping out on the drugs?
The Consumer Federation claims banks are ripping you off by not passing along savings on interest rates.
I felt my heart leap in my chest as my eyes sought out a dripping wet sylph sitting in a corner.
Stripped to a pair of cotton trousers, with a dripping cutlass in one hand and a Colt's revolver in the other, an adventurer at the head of a bunch of dogs as desperate as himself fought his way across the reeking decks of a Chinese junk, to close in single combat with a gigantic one-eyed pirate who stood by the helm with a ring of dead men about him and a great two-handed sword upheaved .... The Cruise of the Jasper B.
Is he dripping with charm, style and panache as well?
You seem to do quite well already, but if feeling overwhelmed is tripping you up, maybe some of these notions will help! Accomplishing Something
Significantly, the plan includes stripping out the closed life fund business as part of a plan to drive down costs and enhance value for shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
There is, of course, a limit to how gripping a narration of running up a stairway can be, and this over-descriptive style palls after a while.
Maybe ‘le garcon’ could get round to helping to “fix the dodgy starter sparkly, change the torch batteries and to seeing to whatever neeeds seeing to stop the fuses tripping in the fusebox” instead of boring you silly with his never ending monologues about his interminable poker games? Words of wisdom
LSD didn't mean tripping so much, it was more a universal motto; Love, Sex, Drugs; A Way Of Life.
My number one film of the year would be Greengrass' gripping, devastating docu-thriller United 93.
Tessa was drenched completely; Clarissa exclaimed in horror at her sopping dark locks and little pinafore that was dripping on the floor.
Abasio found Bear with his nose in a bucket set beneath a dripping crevice in the moss-grown wall. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Frothing and foaming and using words dripping with bile and hatred.
Dripping gold chains, chunky gold rings, badly fitting tracky bottoms, tattoos allover her. Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Slice onion, separate into rings and saute in drippings; remove from pan and set aside ... Venison Liver and Onions!!!
If you are holding a pen, are you gripping it for dear life with your fingers clenched around it so that the knuckles show? Healthy By Nature
A special news program exposed underhanded auto repair shops that are ripping off senior citizens.
He turned his face resignedly back to the path, just in time to avoid tripping over a protuberant root.
We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.
Let's hope the film is just as gripping as the real-life story. The Sun
Ari wasn't quick enough to leap out of the way and the man grabbed him by his shirt, ripping it and pulling Ari towards himself.
And the outspoken expert took the bait - selecting the couple to perform an encore before stripping off to join them. The Sun
He looked up at her, tongue lolling out, ice cream covering his muzzle, sweat dripping from his fur in several places.
The Consumer Federation claims banks are ripping you off by not passing along savings on interest rates.
She moved off with her book to a window; shut herself out from the room, and into the storm, with a heavy fall of curtains; and Nelly's voice rippled through a tripping, Venetian barcarole. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
And he does this all while staggering about the stage tripping over things in gaily-stockinged feet (yes, I have a soft spot for gawky boys in colorful socks), fussing with the mix, swapping instruments on the fly, and -- in the grand tradition of Bowie and Byrne -- dancing like an utter spaz. The short answer is, go.
These phrases, and the condescension dripping from the article generally, can easily be removed without losing anything. The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law
Almost before Lee knew it, Hector, the third rider, was out, there was a pat on Lee's shoulder, and he was climbing the rails to lower himself onto a saddle bronc, smoothing a new pigskin glove over his right hand and gripping the braided handle of the hornless saddle. The Body Ricardo
And sometimes turkeys will give you a really rich looking dripping.
For example, it supports APE and CUE decoding, audio CD ripping, and the wizard was added.
Even when the setting is warm and inviting the appeal of stripping away comfort and luxury seems dubious.
Then we begin stripping the altar and the entire chancel while the choir and the congregation chant Psalm 22 antiphonally.
Dripping with potential but too young to realize the extent of possibilities that lie before us, life can easily seem overwhelming, paralyzing us with fear.
Imagine paying a little money for a clean towel and a piece of soap, entering the men's or women's half of the establishment and stripping absolutely starkers for a scrub down, sauna and soak with the neighbours.
It sheared past in a scream of iron, stripping away a section of the starboard rail and crushing the wooden gangway to matchwood. RUSHING TO PARADISE
My knees were bruised from tripping, and my arms and legs had scratches from tree branches that reached as far as they could to grab travelers.
If they'd fix one leaky tap that's been dripping for at least 9 years next to the church we'd probably save on a load of water expenses!
I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
Wrapped in a towel, dripping water onto the sea-grass, I traipse to the kitchen and switch on the kettle. CHAMELEON
Melt the beef dripping or lard in the hot tray, then add the parsnips and season with salt and pepper. Times, Sunday Times
Melvin's words, sweet as they are, are dripping with twelve-step rhetoric.
Unless there are safeguards in the Bill, there will be asset stripping and property rip-offs on a grand scale.
It was like a vice gripping my arm but, luckily, it stopped just short of my heart. Times, Sunday Times
Check this with the warden before you start plugging things in - tripping the leccy is not a good way to make friends!
It is better to be methodical in your approach: always finish stripping before filling any holes. Times, Sunday Times
Adrianne spat, venom dripping from her words.
The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it.
And weatherstripping can be used to seal gaps around windows and exterior doors.
I mean, one can have, of course, partial undress as well as complete nudity and stripping would include both.
Elsewhere removal of tripping hazards, installing grab bars and living on a single floor all help.
Right now I'm reading Good Night, Gorilla, a gripping tale about the adventures of an absent-minded zookeeper.
The point, he says, is to empower people by stripping away the secrets of those in power. Times, Sunday Times
The story of every convert to Judaism is a gripping tale of spiritual discovery.
We had erred in stripping her of her position in such an abrupt manner. Christianity Today

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