tear away
Britishverb
noun
Example Sentences
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"All he did was tear away that fragile veil in advance, placing the reality outside the room plainly on the table," one Xiaohongshu post read after his death.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Historically, warrantless subpoenas under these laws were used as a narrow investigative tool for specific customs and regulatory violations, not as a weapon to tear away the privacy and protected speech of social media users.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026
“We tear away carpets and in almost each room we discover trap doors in the wooden floors, hiding places behind old paneling,” she writes in her preface.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
"That always seems to tear away a few onion layers," the actor says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2015
And I pretended I didn’t see her wipe a tear away from her eye as she passed me the plates.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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