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How to use tear in a sentence

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As a landlord you can refuse to return their deposit if they have caused damage beyond normal wear and tear.
Because car carpets are expensive, it makes sense to protect them from damage or regular wear and tear.
Not only will it absorb the impact of feet and noise, it will reduce wear and tear on the rug and make vacuuming easier.
Then, after a while, the storm troopers advanced without warning and threw tear gas canisters into the sitting crowd.
The guidelines focus on requirements for flammability, tear strength, abrasion resistance, washability, scrubbability, and stain resistance.
Yes, and hopefully they tear down that ridiculous park of his. Bags I the first go with the bulldozer!
Indonesian police fired warning shots, tear gas and water cannon to try and disperse the crowd.
Street battles developed with police using water cannon and tear gas against the demonstrators.
Police had to use water cannon and tear gas to break up a crowd of some 200 young people who hurled fireworks and other missiles at them.
Over 80 police and soldiers used truncheons, tear gas and a water cannon on protestors, including women and children.
When police moved against the crowd they gave only two minutes warning before using water cannon and tear gas.
Doctors suspect chronic back pain is caused by a combination of normal wear and tear on the joints of the back and poor muscle control.
Most guarantees expressly exclude faults which are the result of misuse by the consumer, accidental damage or normal wear and tear.
Aiden looked as well, watching as a single tear fell and rippled out in wavelets to her fingers.
To minimize staining and wear and tear, Carmichael chooses cottons with a tight weave and a pattern.
Sources said police used hundreds of tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and opened fire to quell the strikers, leaving seven people dead.
She grabbed the note from Sarah's hand, being careful not to tear it, and dashed out the front door.
Although your body can fix itself on the fly, damage accumulates if the rate of wear and tear is greater than the rate of repair.
He missed the last couple of matches due to a slight tear in his abductor muscle.
A single bird can totally destroy a jet engine or tear a hole in an aircraft's fuselage or windscreen.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The transparent bombyx is as delicate as a cobweb, and if you tear it No, you must not refuse.
Frantically Arcot warned them away, lest the air blast from their props tear the glider from the magnet.
When I tear the red crown from the staff I wave this one and shout for my bambino.
The long fingers pulled at the clerical collar as if they might tear it away.
When our brethren departed, we could not tear our aged roots out of the soil.
He took off his hat, and showed her where the brim had a jagged tear half an inch deep.
So be it, but I tell you that I will tear your city stone from stone, and anoint its ruins with your blood.
There's a big tear in my shoulder, an' I'm afeared I've made my last cruise.
When the hare is caught the carcass should be given to the young hounds to tear in pieces.
It does not seem to be their genius to do more than Fishwomen, to scratch and tear one or two to pieces in a cattish fury.
The child should first take a half-pound of chipped beef and tear it into small pieces, removing all strings and fat.
If I had a boy whose hair wouldnt part in the middle, I should bedew that hair with a parents tear, and then giv up the boy.
She no longer wept, though he could see a tear still at the end of one of her lashes, agleam in the dark.
Some of these, what of the wear and tear of freshets and of being stranded long summers on sand-bars, were seasoned and dry and without branches.
It ain't in me to argufy wi' 'ee, and, maybe, tear both our hearts.
All the laws of honour, of faith, and of patriotism, tear us asunder.
Joe, on Captain Cameron's orders, throws overboard public sector wage slaves and the helpless, but with a mutinous fist and a tear in his eye.
Mrs. Boyd basted the tear on a piece of cloth and began her work.
He began to tear the fur of his cloak and toss it over the battlements.
This, with the wear and tear of clothing and calking tools, made my regular expenses about six dollars per week.
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