How To Use Tearing down In A Sentence
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A group of 20 teenagers went on a Halloween rampage in Hockley, smashing windows, tearing down fences and hurling abuse at homeowners.
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As a result, we keep following the cycle of tearing down the old to build new structures of cooperation that carry the rivalrous seeds of its own destruction.
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'Depends on what you call a lark,' said Hazell; 'it's not much of a lark tearing down midstream like this in a fog.
The Grand Babylon Hotel
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Video footage apparently shows him tearing down displays and hurling phones and keyboards around and setting off a fire extinguisher.
The Sun
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What could be better than, instead of tearing down its one remaining - and in aesthetic terms, extremely attractive - gasometer, to keep it, and supplement its worth by bringing other fine examples from across the UK to join it?
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The postwar vogue for tearing down buildings virtually destroyed the city's architecture.
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A certified sailing instructor, Tritch can teach almost anything nautical, from splicing rope and knot-tying to tearing down heads and tuning up engines.
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Tables stretched down each wall where bots of all sizes and shapes sat, were bolted, or trundled back and forth assembling cleaning and tearing down other bots.
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Thousands of demonstrators ransacked the embassy compound, tearing down the large US seal on the front of the chancellery building and setting fire to vehicles.
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He referred to the little swivel guns, which Adam Stephen commanded, his gunners tearing down some of the palisades to give them a field of fire.
George Washington’s First War
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From material selection, writing point of view, style and genre of four-pronged approach, seeking to journalism in the use of "tearing down walls" art tactics.
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All that tearing down Don had been doing, ripping out cabinets, extra studs, lath and plaster, the house was writhing with the pain of it like having its teeth pulled, and now this, whatever he was doing, this new sound, the house was in _pain_.
Homebody
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Tearing down her opponent then turning around in the same sentence and saying "see he's not electable" is ridiculous.
NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity'
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Tearing down these trade restraints and pushing for more unity among some thirty-five countries is not easy.
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ALMOST A TRAGEDY which had only its upper board left; a pedestrianizing English youth came tearing down the path, was seized with an impulse to look over the precipice, and without an instant's thought he threw his weight upon that crazy board.
A Tramp Abroad
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But after six years of living in what they call a rural haven, they saw a bulldozer begin tearing down nearby forests to make way for new homes.
You Are How You Live
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To Rinder, modern art's grandest project has been tearing down boundaries -- between "primitivism" and Western art in Picasso, between high culture and low in pop art, and so on.
THIS MAN WILL DECIDE WHAT ART IS
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Remic sets out the agenda of the SFFE as, from his perspective at least, a reaction to the “constant whining and moaning and tearing down”, “the constant poison and vitriol which, I think, has been invading and escalating for a long time”, said naysaying being born of the fact that “it's much easier to destroy than create”.
Ethics and Enthusiasm
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So, I say; thank you for defending those who were unable to defend themselves and for tearing down a government which brutalized women, children, and anyone who did not believe as they did.
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The fact that thousands of illiterates 'graduate' from high-school and gain admission to college yearly is grounds for tearing down the edifice and starting over from scratch.
It's spreading.
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They're tearing down these old houses to build a new office block.
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Between tearing down walls and digging up floors I was always wrecked.
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The postwar vogue for tearing down buildings virtually destroyed the city's architecture.
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You can just hear, through the crash, the shriek of a third and fourth shell as they come tearing down the vault of heaven -- _crash -- crash_.
Letters from France
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These expressions are objectionable, inasmuch as they hint that in a mature organism, with metabolism rather stable, tearing down, or katabolism, could go on faster than building up, or anabolism, or that one of two phases of the same process might go on faster than the other.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
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By the way, should "tearing down the viaduct" really be described as part of "McGinn's preferred option" -- replacing the current viaduct is agreed upon by virtually everyone (or was there a retrofit option in this poll?).
PubliQuestion: Few Voters Support McGinn’s Surface/Transit Option « PubliCola
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But it involved tearing down people's houses and often destroying their means of making, preparing and storing food.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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Video footage apparently shows him tearing down displays and hurling phones and keyboards around and setting off a fire extinguisher.
The Sun
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I would not be tearing down the mountain bike park swathed in padding like a football player.
Margie Goldsmith: Grouse Grind And Other Adventures In B.C.
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They're tearing down these old houses to build a new office block.
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It isn't going to take a fighter, it's going to take someone that will get house and senators elected in Nov. Obama seems better equipt at that. 3 weeks ago both Obama and Hillary polled better than McCain, now McCain is in the lead, this is tearing down both candidates.
Poll: Hillary Up By 18 Points In Pennsylvania Primary
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'This then was the noise I heard,' I said; 'the rumbling was the falling of the earth; the shriek was the tearing down of trees.'
Aylwin
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From material selection, writing point of view, style and genre of four-pronged approach, seeking to journalism in the use of "tearing down walls" art tactics.
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Reggaeton is the Latin bashment / dancehall hybrid that's been tearing down South and Central America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Miami and Los Angeles since the mid 90s.
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The storms around Cartland were particularly vicious, creating huge sandstorms in the desert around them and tearing down unprotected and poorly built houses.
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Workers are tearing down the huge KTP Shoe Factory in the Longgang outside Shenzhen.
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It is they who are tearing down sustainable economies, delicate environments and age-old social systems in the name of a one-size-fits-all corporate beanfeast.
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Next, an actual house came tearing down, white, wood framed, securely fastened to a flatbed truck.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Ere she had closed the door on me and herself, the corridor was already filled with day-pupils, tearing down their cloaks, bonnets, and cabas from the wooden pegs on which they were suspended; the shrill voice of a maitresse was heard at intervals vainly endeavouring to enforce some sort of order; vainly, I say: discipline there was none in these rough ranks, and yet this was considered one of the best-conducted schools in Brussels.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte