tear off

VERB
  1. remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully
    The passing bus tore off her side mirror
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How To Use tear off In A Sentence

  • If you tear off the rhetorical top-dressing from his article, you will find there is very little solid content.
  • Tear off this coupon and use it to get 25 p off your next jar of coffee.
  • Then the canister, which produced ghastly murder, chain-shot to bring down masts and spars, langrel to fire at masts and rigging, and the dismantling shot to tear off sails, were all made ready. No Defense, Complete
  • That's why I was suckered into entering one of those Readers' Digest prize draws - you know, the ones that tantalise you for months, getting you to fill in this and that, tear off this bit, post this bit back.
  • If you wish to attend would you please sign your name and tear off the slip below and return it to Mrs Ledger at the School office. SAMSON SUPERSLUG
  • As it is French, callico two widths will make it wide enough and you must tear off the belt before you tear the widths in two the ballance [sic] will make the body and the piece I have torn off will make the sleeves. Kimberly family papers,
  • Ten minutes into the production, four young lads tear around the performance space, plump themselves down to quietly watch the show for half an hour, and then tear off again - just as Decky and his friends do within the play.
  • We'll check in at our hotel, tear off our clothes... and put on our oldest, grottiest gardening outfits. Times, Sunday Times
  • tear off the stub above the broken line
  • He started to tear off his filthy shirt, exposing his hairy chest.
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