Example Sentences

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It didn’t matter that he’d barely slept the night before or that the bushy Joshua trees and pinyon pines were shredding his skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2022

They were shredding out into the desert with their faces set for the coast.

From The Green Flag by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

He did not even note that a fog-sodden breeze had begun to puff spasmodically from the east and that the mists were shredding overhead.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman