Example Sentences

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The crust was soft and tearable, the za’atar herbaceous and not overly salty.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

They were printed not on tearable paper, but on a semi-transparent fabric of silken flexibility, interwoven with silk.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The third is to have a habit made of tearable material; and this, I believe, is the only solution of the question, unless ladies decide definitely to adopt a man's dress.

From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham

They were printed not on tearable paper, but on a semi-transparent fabric of silken, flexibility, interwoven with silk.

From When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)