Rip, but not Van Winkle

Usage examples of torn.

Bulkezu had torn it from her cloak, that day the Quman had captured her.

The blade had caught the surface of the skin and torn it back raggedly, but not deeply.

They were much darker and wore torn robes and ragged pointy felt caps over cropped hair.

He staggers, gasping for air so that he can call out to her, but Adica is lost to him, torn away into the whirlwind.

The cataclysm will happen again when that which was torn asunder returns to its original place.

The table lay upended, torn pages of a prayer book strewn along the floor in among broken fragments of a smashed chair.

They picked their way over mounds of bricks, slipping, staggering, hands scraped raw and clothing torn as they reached the spot where the alley opened onto the avenue.

Had it only been seven or eight days since she had left Verna, torn away by her kinfolk?

If he had been torn to pieces by the griffin, then it had not taken place here, and if he had slaughtered the griffin, a field of gore would have marked their struggle.

There is an old sorcerer still alive there who lived in the days of the great cataclysm when his people and their land were torn from Earth.

Her arm is torn from his grasp but as she is hauled away, she thrusts a bundle into his arms.

The land inhabited by the Ashioi will return to the roots from which it was torn free.

I am amazed that she could be torn from such a high seat and thrown like a common wanderer onto such a path as this one.

One had a torn ear and the other limped, but he knew them, and they knew him.

The cry erupted, torn from the listening multitude, for certainly a mass of people now pressed into the chamber and crowded the broad hall beyond.