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vb. (past participle of tear away English)
Usage examples of "torn away".
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 shotgun flechettes had come within a hair of taking his left arm off and had torn away the transceiver on his hip, but close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.
Wind and rain, rot and termites, and the power of neglect had stripped fully a third of the boards from the flanks of this building, as though it were a fallen behemoth from the ribs of which carrion eaters had torn away the meat.
No other mother was as willing as Tamai to sacrifice her child for the good of the people, but one baby was torn away.
It kept three dogs for some time completely at bay, and having at length seized one of them with its claws, and torn away a large piece of flesh from its thigh, they all immediately retreated.
In places the stone facing of the building was torn away, exposing the iron construction beneath.
By means of the spell woven by the human sorcerers and their allies, our land was torn away from Earth.
Then there was a swift stamp of feet, and men were dragging us apart, grasping my lord firmly, who stood white and panting with fury, still clutching my neckcloth which had been torn away from my throat in the struggle.
Ruined houses with shell holes in their roofs and half the walls torn away stared at her, silent and dark.
Half a dozen times, as he changed hands on the rungs, his grip loosened and he was almost torn away: half a dozen times his teeth bared in the agony of effort, the great hands clamped tight and he impossibly retained his grip.
She cried out with terror and clung to the velvet, but she felt her fingers ruthlessly torn away.
All the protruding sensors and most of the radar-absorbing overlay were gone, too, torn away in a criss-cross pattern that looked as if a thousand spine leopards had tried to claw it to death.