Tear inelegantly

Usage examples of rip.

I ripped away my shirt and poured undiluted acriflavine solution into the cavernous wounds.

As the humans whipped around the outer edges of the dancing whirlpool, the afanc swam in quick lunges and ripped them free in its jaws.

The agonizing pain would soon be ripping through her womb as her body fought to conceive.

Ripping off his cloak, Alec gathered the hem of it in one hand and tossed the other end at the upthrust corner, hoping to catch it with the hood.

And how can he in good conscience just rip off, swallow, digest and expel as his what an alumnus with a streaked orange face and removable hair has clearly seen first herself?

But as they left the beautifully landscaped road that had carried them from the airport to the city and turned off into the urban residential district he saw that the splendor was, unsurprisingly, a fraud of the usual Alvarado kind: the avenues had been paved, all right, but they were reverting to nature again, cracking and upheaving as the swelling roots of the bombacho trees and the candelero palms that had been planted down the central dividers ripped them apart.

The massive amphibian whipped its head back and forth in an instinctual frenzy to rip and tear.

Asara kissed her hard, harder, and Kaiku felt a pain inside her, as if some organ in her breast were about to rip free, her heart about to tear from its aortal mooring.

He nearly ripped the door to the armory off its hinges, took a deep breath and stepped onto the top of the armory stairs.

As soon as the daily newspapers are done with, he rips them up in geometric squares and stores them in the cellar privy so that they all can wipe their arses with I them.

It was all I could do to tear my eyes off Asteria, who sat panting on the ground, ripping at the shreds of the long robe entangling her neck and legs.

Then came an awful ripping sound, as of a body being torn asunder, and he felt the ground quiver beneath him again.

The former would try to rip the fabric asunder, the latter to patch it.

Hunter smashed him across the head with his atlatl, ripping his cheek open.

He could feel the baleen ripping the skin on his back as the tongue covered him, pressing the seawater out around him as it would strain krill, then crushing him until the last of the air exploded from his body and he blacked out.