At first I didn’t want to take off my clothes, but I saw them kick a man to the floor and rip his shirt and pants. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I can imagine how ripped apart you must have felt and still sometimes feel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

How is it fair that my mom can hover over me, while someone else has his just ripped away from him? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Frantically he thought of tourniquets and could even hear the rip of cloth he should have been tearing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all very confusing to Clevinger, who began vibrating in terror as the colonel surged to his feet like a gigantic belch and threatened to rip his stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Osha found some loaves of burned bread that were still edible, and even a cold roast fowl that she ripped in half. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bear ripped through them as if they were cobwebs. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He only lights his cigarette and, two seconds later, a bullet rips through the front of his skull and he crumples in a heap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“His eyes are the color of burning coals, and his fangs are bigger and sharper than a javalina’s tusks. But his claws are just as dangerous. He can rip out your heart with them.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I tossed my camera onto the bed and ripped the nearest picture off. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She felt as if her insides had been ripped out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches for my pocket and despite me pushing at her hands, rips it out. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“After that,” said Jinny, “is Jak, who you already met, with the ripped pants, as usual.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, James and Dicey started patching up the holes in the porch screens, where the screens had pulled out of the wood or just ripped. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rips out the page, gives the note to a messenger. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The drapes ripped free of the canopy overhead and tumbled down, half on the rushes and half on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She leapt back a step and sliced open Cain’s arm with the broken end of the staff, ripping through muscle and sinew. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All he wore was a pair of ripped trousers, and his bare feet gripped tentatively at the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of another rip as Boobie opened yet another letter from the University of Nebraska. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit began to rip over the track, cutting into Myrtlewood’s lead even as she flew through fractions faster than any ever run at the Detroit Fair Grounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's going to grab me, rip into me, but I don't even care. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe about eight months ago when I contracted B. cepacia and they ripped my name off the transplant list. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Keeping the wall to his back, he slid toward the window and ripped down the curtain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The giant would lash out violently when threatened, and those huge hands were strong enough to rip a man apart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I struggle against the legionnaires, but all I succeed in doing is ripping my dress so that it’s barely decent. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He reeled away, unsteady on his feet, and Grey Wind snapped at his arm, teeth ripping at his sleeve and tearing loose a scrap of cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Uncle Ali rose from his seat and ripped them apart. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if all the berries, all die pits had exploded in the center of him, ripped and tore at him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprinted for the exit, but heard a ripping sound and realized the skeleton warrior had taken a chunk out of my sleeve. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Once it had to be ripped open and two dollars taken out to pay the druggist the time Francie ran a rusty nail into her knee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, she reached up to her head, and there was a ripping sound. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He ripped off a chunk of black bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, she asked a question or two, but she basically just let me rip. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped the pages out of the book. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I pick it up, the bag rips and the clothes fall out. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were nights trying to sleep in a freezing tent, with 30-mile-per-hour winds ripping at the sides. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Moss quickly surveyed the room, then began ripping the poster-board displays off the wall. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jam went to the studio and looked at the canvas that was still lying on the floor, ripped and empty. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They were thin and long, with an attachment at the end that made them resemble plumbing parts someone had ripped out of an industrial pump. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I took the used one, flung it deep into the brush, and ripped the wrapper off the new one. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now you ain’t never heard a man scream until you hear one with a knife ripping into his balls. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind ripped Gaea’s form into nothingness, scattering the sand into the blue sky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Croy’s arms appeared, then his head, his jumpsuit ripping on jagged spurs of metal as he wriggled. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Fangs that had ripped out and eaten Verin and Xavier’s internal organs; fangs that had feasted on their brains. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Grace could see her mentally ripping out the carpet in their living room, adding a second wing, or quite possibly abandoning Grace’s father and her to live in this house instead. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s worthless. Look,” he said, and, lifting the engine cover with one paw, he extended a claw on the other hand and ripped right through it like a can opener. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The one I hope he doesn’t discover and rip from my throat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wave to the security guard, who peers at me suspiciously as I rip the balloon off the vase, struggling to catch my breath, my lungs protesting all this running. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As hard as it is to pinpoint a dot inside a ripped segment of a map, it only becomes harder when the dot is moving. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Both of her knees had the skin ripped right off them, and the flesh underneath was scarlet and raw. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Inside and out, Westley’s world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had squirreled it away in all kinds of hiding places at the Institute, where other people couldn’t find it and rip it off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken galleys were ripping apart, the bridge breaking apart. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A bony boy in a ripped and bloody shirt had hold of the halter of his horse and was insisting that the General move to the rear. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking the words felt like ripping a bandage off—or getting my chest waxed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Janina and I ripped up pieces of moss and piled it near our supplies. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Have you found a way to rip the backbone out of your name?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hands and feet were melting into the water, my soul was being ripped from my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If there wasn’t a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go’n make it! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I put a hand to my own mask, wishing I could rip it off, even for a minute. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They broke down one of the tent poles and ripped apart the canvas, using it to bind the pole to Con’s leg. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never expe­rienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tore her blouse open, just ripped it, and put his face against her chest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not scream, not even when the wolf that had been his brother tore him apart, ripping open his throat and spilling his guts onto the rock floor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I rip and cut and puzzle her back together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then the pants rip, and Lally falls in the dust. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rips the bull hook from my hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The steel fell from his fingers as the wolf knocked him off his feet, and they rolled in the grass, the wolf snarling and ripping at him, the prince shrieking in pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Upper Rhoyne was full of snags and sawyers, any one of which could rip out the Shy Maid's hull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The last I saw him, Johnny was tearing down the road toward the square, raising up little clouds of dust as he ripped along. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Volta knew this was a battle of wills, and the only thing that kept him from intervening, and ripping that dagger away from Goddard, was knowing who would blink first. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Cedric straightened up, his arms full of inky quills, parchment, and books, his ripped bag dangling off one shoulder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I brought it down with two hands as hard as I could and heard it rip through the net. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her hem caught on a loose nail in the splintered wooden bench and ripped as she fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When it went through the palm fronds the storm hadn’t ripped away, it made a flapping noise. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was bright blue, and she gritted her teeth as a strong gust of wind ripped into her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were at the edge of the deck when the creature rushed him, grabbed the torch, and ripped it from his hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wore tights woven in an intentionally chaotic pattern with purposeful rips. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It’s been ripped out, ripped open, and lies dead on the dining room table like a patient that didn’t survive the operation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He ripped away the tin, and a little girl flew at him with a hammer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As we watched, the guy in armor stabbed the dummy through its belly and ripped upward. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had ripped the king from groin to nipple with its tusks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I saw her fold backward as the automatic fire ripped her nearly apart. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian announced, as if he’d killed a lion with his bare hands rather than ripping up a stuffed panda pillow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He ripped a fistful of leaves off a scraggly tree we were walking by. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The left leg of her jeans was ripped from the knee to her calf, and her knee was skinned underneath. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She stripped the girl of the drenched, ripped clothing, setting it aside, then rubbed her dry with rough cloth, and wrapped her in soft wool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I write Bully and hand it to Finch, who rips it into a hundred pieces and throws it on the heap. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He reached down and helped Thomas to his feet—he was so strong it felt like he could rip Thomas’s arm off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The restless dogs charged at anyone close by, grabbed children’s arms and legs, bit their stomachs, ripped flesh, and drew significant blood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His son had been a babe as well, yet they had ripped him from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Giant scars sliced through one spot, as if an oversize claw had ripped the earth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her leg was ripped one way, and her arm twisted under her at the bottom of the steps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My oxygen mask had been ripped off in the blast. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only the teacher and the boys; also missing were the furniture and fixtures, and there were long winding gashes puckering the walls where someone had ripped out the wiring. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me the right price for this. No ripping me off.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Obviously I had forfeited my place in heaven forever, and I was as gutless as the doll I had ripped to pieces ages ago. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped at the shutters, but the old Plymouth, one of its front tires fenderless and exposed as if it were a stock car, was rambling to life. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impact ripped off the right side of the car. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I picked a daisy and began ripping off the petals. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel him waiting for something, anything, and I could feel my heart ripping open and I realized there was no point lying about this. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In under one hundred milliseconds, the massive combustion pressure burst the container, and the resulting explosion ripped the airlock door to shreds. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ximena took it and ripped it up into lots of little pieces. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Every time Boss told him he had to fight, he just grabbed these thin cloth gloves with the fingers ripped away and went to the middle of camp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Anya brandished the other horseshoe in her hand, planting her feet in the dirt, certain the monster of a man was moments away from literally ripping her head off her shoulders. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They assumed, no doubt, that a Muslim woman, presumably submissive and shy with her English, would allow her hijab to be ripped from her head without retaliation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I’ve ever worn anything this expensive. I’m scared to rip it.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Something in him shrank from violence, from contention, from the silent shrieking tensions that can rip at a house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I made for the back porch, but he tackled me and we fell through the screen door, ripping it off its hinges. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings stand empty, row after row of them, the windows broken, the doors gone—probably burned for firewood—and when I poke my head inside, even the floors have been ripped out and salvaged. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The shoe was ripped like it was made out of paper! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cow opens her meaty wet lips, curls her sandpaper tongue around the bunched clover like a fat rope, and rips the mouthful of tender leaves from its crown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The vet told us that Mango was born with a deep rip in the lining of one lung and that it couldn’t be fixed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He took his time reading it, and I resisted the urge to rip it from him as I scrutinized his face for a clue as to what was inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Zephyr says, “Don’t rip ’em up, Fry. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I write Maybe, which he immediately rips up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ivory towers, now beet red as they reflected the burning rip in the sky, stood tall and angry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A girl comes by, wearing a ripped plaid vest and a white tank top, and jean cutoffs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His hands, by themselves, like two men working together, began to rip the pages from the book. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling on the floor, marking, with ripped bits of a Post-it, patches on the baseboard that needed to be retouched with paint. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like you’ve finally won the lottery of peace and quiet and then you rip that winning ticket to shreds and dump a bucket of angry, screaming monkeys on your head. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s for Brown Ben Plumm. When next I see his ugly ' face I will open him from throat to groin and rip out his black heart.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He went for the hayloft, but a pitchfork ripped away from its spot on the wall and flew at Håkon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I turned onto my side and ripped the rubber band out, quickly combing through the plaits with my fingers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her shirt had been ripped down the front. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He holds the book to my face and rips out pages. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His shoes were still floating around in his living room at home; his socks had been ripped off in his ride through the flood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped down the silver silk flag from the tree and took off. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was a sliver of the Orlando Sentinel, half straight edges and half ripped. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get a little mad that Mama would rip off the label from her bottle and leave it in the bed for Charlie to find. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Hazel fled, and suddenly she was ripped out of the past. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And there was the forest, and the Bottle Tree, and the fight, and the burning rip. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Of course he had plenty to say about this, and about college kids who didn’t care about other people’s things, and everybody trying to rip him off all the time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon ripped open the bill, snorted in disgust, and flipped over the postcard. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Today she rips her garden gloves from her hands, whips them at the kitchen island, and screams like she can’t stand the very sight of them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Trees ripped at her dress and hair; stones sliced her feet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thinking it would help me fit in, I tried to rip out a shoot of my own. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one time the benches had been covered with cushions and he could see the ties at the corner where they’d ripped away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Never drive through the covered bridge by Hannibal’s Rest at night. You hear the witch scream right before she rips you to shreds and leaves your car empty by the side of the road.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I have just ripped the last of the suspension notice into its tiniest parts, and I stuff the confetti into my sweatshirt pockets. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A shriek of rage ripped from her throat, and Celaena ran over to the pocket. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile and a bolt of pain ripped through my lips. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped open one of the packages and dangled a pair of bangles in front of you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rex was wearing shorts and a monogrammed shirt, ripped at the shoulder, showing tanned skin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Much of her hair had been ripped out, and her bloody scalp shown through where it was missing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then he places the knife flat between my skin and the bandages and rips the cloth. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I would rip through an essay assignment in a matter of minutes, and Mom would be so proud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she whined to the policeman, verifying Milkman’s and Guitar’s lie that they had ripped off the sack as a joke on an old lady, she had to look up at him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was asleep instantly, ripping out monster snores. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

An ugly yellow scrap from a ripped bodice was still tied to the handle of the front door, which was open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who guarded them liked to rip the tops of the women’s garments so their breasts were exposed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a storm- wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Even here, fifteen miles away, like an earthquake sent to rip the world in two." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little printer in front of him is spewing out orders faster than he can rip them off, much less produce the meals. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a while sawing at the cloth with the clumsy shell, and she ended up ripping the cushions quite a lot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The skin was green and purple and gray where it had ripped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story moves forward in a series of painful unravelings—the school is scandalized; a family fractures; a gay relationship is revealed; a deep friendship between two boys rips apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, it was when he ripped the bottom sheet off that Cabot found what looked like a diary of some sort stuffed under the mattress. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I expected her to open it right away, because normally Twig ripped her presents apart—but she set it aside and turned toward me completely, so she was sitting cross-legged on my bed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then I dropped the backpack and tried to rip it open with two hands. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

No steel was permitted within the sacred confines of Vaes Dothrak, beneath the shadow of the Mother of Mountains; she had to rip the heart apart with teeth and nails. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What pea brains, eating his ripped flesh as indifferently as they would bits of fish! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One hand on the reins, the other clutching the tub, I stepped backward and ducked as he jabbed forward with the spear, but not quick enough to avoid it ripping through my shoulder. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her hand stung where the skin had been scraped, and there was blood trickling down her ripped pajama leg from her knee. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He ripped out the paper, folded it, and passed it and the pencil over to her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m so charged I want to rip down the walls with my bare hands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He rips off his baseball uniform to reveal a very Tiny purple polo shirt and chino shorts. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we borrowed a car and drove to the North Shore of Oahu, where we sat on a ribbon of soft beach and watched surfers rip across enormous waves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That boy could be ripping it to pieces for all I know. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He started to rip out the page, then realized he couldn’t leave his grandfather such an obvious clue. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her hands flew across the materials - ripping, weaving, tying, braiding. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She wanted to comfort him, but what was she supposed to say to someone who’d had his magic ripped away from him? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He ripped it off and crawled along the listing deck until die water was only neck deep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe she should rip them all out, starting with this one. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Sphinx ripped through them, but it bought us just enough time. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

One sleeve was ripped off, and the other was so stretched out it was hanging down to my knees. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shopping bags were torn, and the weeds and twigs stuck out of rips in the brown paper. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have to close my eyes a minute, as the image rips through me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Harry sat down on his bed and grabbed Errol’s package, ripped off the brown paper, and discovered a present wrapped in gold, and his first ever birthday card. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She ripped off the top sheet, folded it, folded it again, and then carefully ripped the paper along the first fold, and then along the second fold. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I panic and try to rip them out of my skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“These pages look like they were torn out carefully, not ripped apart. So I think whoever did this was after what was on those pages.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lifting it from the detritus, she ripped aside its wrappings, revealing leather covers, edges stained with age, clasps that locked all its secrets inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He wasn't trying to rip Martin off, mind you. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An hour later violent gusts started blowing down from the desert, and the wind and tidal rips conspired to carry him out to sea. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I considered my ripped shorts a badge of honor; I was like one of the boys. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She plopped down on one of the beds and ripped open a mini-Snickers. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The man ripped off his apron and bundled it under her hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I ripped the model off the pedestal and hurled it at the first dracaena. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ron was already ripping the paper off his own presents. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The small woman parried and ripped off another strip of cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian ripped it open, and his stomach twisted at the long line of names. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It ripped out of me and I screamed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She yanked at it until I heard the fabric rip, but I was already running. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her dress had been ripped in two; she held it up with a clenched fist and walked as if every step were agony. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Since the election launched a wave of women having their scarves ripped off in public, some people in the community actually suggested hijabis shed the scarf, to be less obvious targets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I had a terrible vision then of Mrs. DiAngelo angrily ripping up the butterfly bush and the flowers I’d planted and heaving them all over the fence. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He ripped up a shoot growing out of the rotting trunk and started peeling away its bark to get at the green pith inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to feel Anastasia’s weight on us, to feel teeth in my shoulder or hands ripping at my leg. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her last words were lost in the empty air of the gym; Miles had shot across the bottom of the bleachers and ripped her microphone’s power cord from its extension. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Tyrion heard her tunic rip as she fought to free herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The perpendicular carbon fibers should have prevented the rip from growing. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silk ripped straight through, and sulfur and hydrogen leaped to meet each other in a catastrophe of flame. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they pull me away from him, I feel the pocket ripped from my sleeve, see the deep violet pill fall to the ground, watch Cinna’s last gift get crunched under a guard’s boot. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Change must take place. It is important. To remain as you are would lead to isolation. You would be doomed to a lonely existence, ripped apart from those you love.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She ripped off the rest of her clothes wildly, threw herself into bedj and cried herself back to sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Inside the airplane are rows and rows of seats covered in ripped, fraying blue fabric. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No, you’re right. I shouldn’t have done that. When I saw the instructions, on how to kill boo-hags, I just...got scared and ripped them out.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He read some of it and tore the pages out, then ripped ’em into pieces that fluttered to the floor. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a blast of shot ripped through the bottom of the can, blowing the lid off and strewing the contents all over the old dog. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Give it to your ma," he said, ripping me beneath the heart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sawed and ripped at the tough belly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous burst of wind and winter ripped through the heavens. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dri’s life vest was ripped at the shoulders, but it had stayed on her, at her waist. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Johnny told me how you ripped up an old dress of yours and made kitchen curtains out of it. He said it made the kitchen look fine, like the inside of a Gypsy wagon.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes me want to shove my hand into my chest and rip my own heart out. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He watches Luna rip open the packet and dump the candy out onto his papers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pencil tips whisper against paper all around me, a gentle contrast to the coarse rip of my book bag’s zipper, the obnoxious clacking of its buckles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Someone ripped one of the new red vinyl seats; she agreed that instead of using tape, they should replace it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lets go of Daniel to avoid being ripped apart. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“What happens when they turn out my pockets? What happens when they rip my stockings? What happens when they scatter my salt in the dirt?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The great monolith tilted and began to sink, grinding down through ancient layers of rock, ripping through them as though they were paper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I leaned over the armrest, trying to make sense of the pastel colors and crisscrossing lines on the flimsy, ripped paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The rat's barbs had ripped her Kevlar as if it were tissue paper. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I meet her eyes, brazen as a sailor fresh into port, she opens her mouth, as if to rip into me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She ripped free of his grasp and clawed at his ears, his nose, his cheeks, scratching and slapping. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He rips the bag and hands it to me. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

By this time, a number of police officers had arrived, and they joined firemen and citizen-volunteers in ripping down fences and sheds. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the boat evened up with the end of the dock I jumped off and hooked a line around a cleat, but the wood was rotted and the cleat bolts ripped out of the dock. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Rafik ripped open a packet of crackers he had in his pocket and tossed them to three brown ducks who paddled up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ball ripped through his chestnut-colored hair, cut the skin, penetrated the skull, and because of the angle of Lincoln’s head at the moment of impact, made a diagonal tunnel through Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You just focus on you,” Robin said, ripping off an edge of crust from her sandwich and popping it into her mouth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were flat and cold but her fingernails were tearing at the upholstery of the chair, ripping and fraying the silk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls dropped their work, hauled out paper bags of lunch, ripped the bags open to form a tablecloth, spread out their onion-garnished sandwiches and started to eat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day in Arabic class she grew so irritated with the dull text, she ripped a whole page out of her book. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t wait to rip their—” But before the Keeper could finish, Thomas was on his feet and across the corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

All he could see of his forearm was ripped shirt and ragged torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I struggle to rip open the paper, but my body is weak. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Branches and thorns ripped and tore at his clothes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ben ripped the paper off the package, then lifted the cover off the box. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear looked up and growled briefly, before ripping the seal open with one claw. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the rip cord of Snowden’s parachute and covered his body with the white nylon sheets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He gripped my coat so tight seams ripped. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The big guy made it across in three swings, which was a good thing since, just as he landed, the last iron bar ripped free under his weight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Taran thrust at one of the livid warriors; a sword point ripped his arm and sent the small knife hurtling into the bracken. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I press a button, ripped from a coat, over the wound to divert direct pressure. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The waste turns to raw ammonia, which blinds you and almost literally rips your nose off your face. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only after I threatened to rip out the stitches in the side of my head did they finally tell me what Miles had done. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He seemed not to notice or care about the rip at the knee or under the arm, the tie-tied shoe, the leaves in Milkman’s hair, or the dirt all over the suit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped at the meat with his teeth, cracked the ribs to suck out the marrow from the bones, and shrugged at the mention of Jon Snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He listened, not moving, and heard the ripping again, but behind him this time, and closer to shore, and ahead of him—one after another. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

For him she planned sugar in his motor, scissors to his tie, burned suits, slashed shoes, ripped socks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I ripped it open, I would also be ripping open my life. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had one of his legs stretched out front of him, and there was a big rip outta the skin by his knee. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The doll’s head was shattered, and the sand that had filled her body spilled onto the floor from a rip across her back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart thumped like it was going to rip right out of my chest “You don’t understand. R.C. doesn’t just talk. He’s dangerous.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And Pa likes you a powerful lot, sir, but if he thinks you kidnapped me he’s gonna come ripping out after us like his hair’s afire. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He fumbled at his sword belt, his hands clumsy in their fur-and-leather gloves, and finally succeeded in ripping his longsword from its scabbard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I can’t lie now and say my eyes didn’t scan it for any rips. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had stormed out of the room then, ripping the radio out of the socket, abruptly stopping Angel’s dance. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been a way for me to heal from my father’s untimely death, while this simply ripped apart the scar tissue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The bandages are forever sticking and have to be ripped away and when he comes home she washes the sores with warm water and soap, covers them with ointment and wraps them in clean bandages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I would not have it ripped apart on my account.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Screw body-slamming my heart, this girl ripped her own out mad long ago. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at her watch, scribbled on a notepad, then ripped off the paper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d only just hit the ground when there was a blinding flash and a sound like the earth ripping open and a shock wave of searing hot wind that knocked the air from my lungs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But in that one sentence, Dorian made his mistake, and he knew that his father had found his new weak spot: the overwhelming terror that Celaena would be ripped from him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was on a bombing run over North Vietnam when his plane was ripped open by antiaircraft fire. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the man who fired the gun gets off no more than a warning shot, because the mob rips the shotgun from him and pulls him down into a melee of angry hands. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I ripped it off so hard, the chain’s clasp snapped. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Kids ripped open their boxes, checked the contents, tossed them behind their chair, then attacked another. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At Shea Stadium, the crowd tore onto the field, ripping up home plate, pulling up fat clods of turf and raising them high over their heads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gangs already owned the territory—real estate was, in essence, their core business—and they were suitably menacing to keep customers from even thinking about ripping them off. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The sound ripped out of the speakers and shredded every nerve in my body. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We have to go,” I begged as I ripped off my mask and gasped for air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Like a rabid beast bent on ripping my throat out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The rocks around the opening were rough and cracked; and a ripped piece of red fabric lay torn on one of the sharp stones. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, her drawing pad was ripped to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The machine guns and tanks begin ripping up the next block, or the block after that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The cloth of his doublet appears ripped, a gleam of metal underneath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Trees enveloped the great buildings, their roots slowly ripping apart the soft limestone walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her scouring cry still echoed—Go!—and then she was gone, ripped back into the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All those families, ripped apart and hounded through the forest, just because of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The hardness of the camp, the coldness of the dark night, the death of Dapir, all slam through me like a barrel bomb, ripping my heart to pieces. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kazi brought a piece of one of your paintings, just a folded square of canvas ripped from its frame, the paint chipped. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even with his pants ripped at the knee, and his hands scratched up, smelling like sour metal. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He takes one long step forward, leans down, and tries to rip the necklace from her throat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Buttercup ripped her clothes into patches and ties, and they worked at the wound, caking the blood with mud from the floor of the Fire Swamp, then bandaging and rebandaging over it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s his turn again, Ford rips open his presents, tossing newspaper and foil everywhere. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Investment research has had to have huge amounts of cost ripped out of it, so a lot of firms are using shift work in Bangalore to do bread-and- butter company analysis.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mama held my hand while Doc MacRee cleaned my leg where the tree had ripped it up, and I cried. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No one will know'.” “God will know,” she said, taking her eyes off the ring to glare at me as if I had personally ripped the ring off God’s finger. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He rips one of my skirts and tries to untie my waist-sash. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It ripped off every groundsel leaf, leaving the limbs bare. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tendai could rip through the cloth and yell for help—except that he didn’t see people or buildings through the hole. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It draws me in—a secret that she wants ripped off for good. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her voice is ragged, the ripped chords of an Eat’n Park hostess back home. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It shattered, splitting from the fuselage with a loud rip. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He peers at the shipping label for a moment and then rips it in half, wadding it and tossing it into the trash. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He’s still wearing that awesome burgundy blazer, but it’s ripped on one side, splattered with...blood. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He watched the boy reach back and rip loose the final wooden board. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He ripped its innards out and stooped to lap blood straight from the bowl of the torn carcass, his crazed eyes peeping over the rim, glittering with rage and hate and mad fulfillment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sharp, ripping pain as though he is being pulled apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grip had slipped and I’d begun to slide when the spike finally ripped from me and fell away, smashing into the trailer with a tremendous crash. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Uncle had simply ripped the magic off them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sigurd grunted, and then his axe came out of the tree’s trunk with a wet rip. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I ripped off half my sandwich in one bite. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Moss saw the rip, she called the girls into the kitchen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The rips in the map told me that she had not intended this as a clue— Margo was too precise and assured with her clues to muddy the waters. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I clutch the trim on my tunic so hard, it gives a little protest rip. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He removed a paper packet from the box, ripped open the edge, and shook out the see-through patch. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally nailed her down on it, she sat at the kitchen table, pulled out an old envelope, ripped it open, and unfolded it to give her more space. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think he sees about as much as Santa Claus,” I said, opening my journal back up, ripping out my last entry and crumpling it in a ball. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If the picture, or the camera, froze the county, what if messing with one of them did stuff to the county, too? What if we tore the picture, and that ripped the county in half?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is stained and ripped in places, thinned from use. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mark had ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of his shirt to wrap around his nose and mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She felt as though she were in a state of partial decay, and with each gust of frigid, stinging wind, she wondered when her skin would rip from her bones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up, but his claws ripped my forearm, and a swipe of his paw almost knocked out my molars. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that he ripped the sheet from his writing pad, crumpled it, and threw it into the sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a chance to rip off the corporations, which we all thought was a funny idea. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rip in the screen had been there for weeks. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I ripped out the notebook paper and stuffed the procedure in my pajama pocket, and felt a giddy thrill rising inside me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The other had hit his right leg, and the muscle was ripped away. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I go back to ripping the suspension notice into tinier and tinier pieces. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I ripped off the pages of the desk calendar I’d been using, and I took down the map, too, which I’d had up there ever since I saw that it contained Agloe. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She yelped as the blade sliced across her thigh, clothing and flesh ripping. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t being ripped apart down there, which we often joked about, and was the secret fear of quite a few girls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, my shorts ripped when I fell and my butt was showing, but I knew not to cry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As I think back to that moment, it seems like we ripped them off in unison, an affirmation of our solidarity and victory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even when Ana put her hand on the collar of Ash’s gown and ripped it from her, Ash did not feel her stepsister’s nails against her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid then, slow and painful, ripping out my hair so that a clump of me stayed pinned to the tree—nesting material for low-flying buzzards. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I ripped the story out of the paper, folded it into my pocket, and ran back to the taxi. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message was perfectly clear: Come out, whoever you are, so I can rip you to shreds! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great crash of thunder almost overhead, and a tearing noise, as though the sky had been ripped open. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They just happened to pass through a town the day before a tornado came through and ripped the town to shreds. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gotten a dud of a daughter who ripped her way out in the world and had done nothing but disappoint her ever since. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The vine ripped out of the earth, but slowed him enough so that he was able to stop himself. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I look down at the book again, and then I hear paper ripping. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped a page out of a magazine, then squeezed my fingers inside the blue plastic holes of an old pair of school scissors. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“And that’s not the worst of it—oh no,” says August, ripping his tie loose and clawing at his shirt collar. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As I tug off the ribbon and rip at the paper, I’m suddenly six years old at Christmas. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ahead, there were more thick bushes, and he thought he ought not to go through them, in case of getting the string ripped on a branch. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I heard the ripping of the paper as Miss Winthrop opened the envelopes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it ripped her whole heart out, she could not have stood it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rip open my backpack and say, To make them more like these! Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I ripped into an alley down the block to reconstruct myself and to shake off the aftershocks of Hank. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Another gale had ripped away the rigging of die Bountiful Harvest, forcing Salla to have her taken under tow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, I rip a piece of paper out of my math notebook. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I was barely able to touch the floor with my toes, Weylin ripped my clothes off and began to beat me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We starve ourselves so we can fit into the perfect pair of jeans, we pollute our bodies with drugs to increase our muscles so we’ll look ripped without a shirt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And so, to keep Trashman from ripping out another wall, Kuda had been moved to a tiny room at the center of the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I scoot back under the fence, too fast this time, and rip the back of my shirt. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front’s been ripped out and glassed over, the lawn is paving stone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sliced the tip of his spear down Jason’s chest, ripping his purple shirt into a vest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tyson ripped a metal lamppost out of the ground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cruz was standing at the edge of the room, where the side of the house had been ripped away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He lay the bag of flies between them, and before he could take a sip of his own tea, Grandpop ripped right into the story. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled the bun off my sandwich and started ripping it into bite-size pieces. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

No, if they tried to take her from him, he’d rip the world apart with his bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He lets the others fall to the ground and then starts taping, ripping off the masking tape with his teeth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I had noticed that Lula’s taste in literature had been tending away from the good old ripping yarns and toward the sticky romantic stuff. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Do not make me rip out your fur, old man,” snarled Petunia. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She turned her eyes directly on me, exposed her talons, and ripped through my dream. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t rip the dress, Helen,” Lorraine kept saying. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama ripped two strips from the hem of her tunic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment, ripping the crust in my hand open to pick the soft white bread out of the crunchy part. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Gaily ripped off the second board just as Newt reached him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If you do, it will rip you apart. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I ripped the last sheet from the pad and ran to find the manager again. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped the poster out of Mike’s hands and rushed away. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She looked me over, from the twigs in my hair, to my ripped skirt, to my bloody knee. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was stiff and awkward, in a moment I should say he had been ripping. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their sneakers were all nearly new, although their T-shirts and jeans were ripped and grungy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He ripped it out, balled it up, tossed it on the floor. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a boldness in not editing for consistency, in not ripping out either the one page or the other. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Almost literally ripped from his mother’s arms and dumped in more austere surroundings at such a tender age, this scarred him mentally for life, although no unkindness was intended. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I cut the cape, then ripped it in two, and laid it under the wheel in the mud, then piled brush for the wheels to catch. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to rip open the seam with my teeth, but the tiny stitches that Mother had sewed would not yield. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrashing and growling at the net, trying to rip free, Summer was only ensnaring himself worse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They ripped up her clothes and shoes and broke her combs, grinding them underfoot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped down one of the triangle legs, and I heard cloth tearing. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was ripped, and various axes and cudgels dangled off his many belts and sashes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The alcohol burns my bruised lips, rips a path down my throat, and explodes in my stomach. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was actually touched, but not so much that I was above setting my magic phone onto her desk and ripping off her BlackBerry’s new password. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It hung crookedly, almost like someone had tried to rip it down, only to have someone else come along and halfheartedly string it back up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If I do a stupid magic trick with him at the talent show, it will just remind everybody about why I was disqualified and why I had my blue ribbon ripped away. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The Uncle flicked his hand, and Seven felt as if her skin were being ripped from her body. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And that was when he first heard the water ripping near him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He put a hand on his sword as he ripped back the blankets and dragged her out of bed by the elbow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Split watermelons, ripped sacks of cornmeal, cucumbers gone soft or moldy in places. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Hel rips it free, rending the flesh of my neck as the metal releases. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He showed up, saw his couch had been taken, and started ripping out people's plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The list of the slain was topped by the High Septon, ripped apart as he squealed to his gods for mercy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nita cried out, but Nailer’s father held his knife to her neck and she held still as Blue Eyes ripped the gold off, leaving bloody streaks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or the time I got caught in a rip and she and Dad had to drag me out of the ocean in front of a whole beach of surftards. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The others died, sharp steel points ripping through their chests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even though screen doors had been ripped off or warped, even though some RVs knelt on whatever tires had been slashed, there were still signs of life all around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I jerked around to the fry cook, who was ripping off his apron. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rosie wraps her trunk around some turnip greens and rips them from the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every last one of those who’d stayed behind and fought was covered in Griever sludge and human blood, their clothes ripped to shreds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mom opens the wrapping paper with a clean rip. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Chuck!” he screamed; his voice felt like acid ripping through his throat. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I handed him my yellow rip cord, yelled “Airborne, Jumpmaster!” and turned my body to face the open door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

With each epithet, he rips the headpiece further. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I get each tidbit so small I can’t rip it in half again, I add it to the pile in my lap. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maryam died clawing at her own throat, trying to scrape or squeeze the shirin poison back out as it ripped her apart. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I took the axe and, with a wild scream that rose from my guts, I rushed forward, prepared to rip him down the middle with a single stroke. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had survived the unimaginable, as had three of their children, but the war ripped a hole in their hearts that would never heal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Are you going to stand by and let them rip me out and fold me up and fly me away? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What you can do is help me turn this room over. Come on, before I tell Cook you’re reading smut,” Penelope said, her tone calm even as she continued to rip the magazine pages. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Empire throws Scholar children into these wagons, some as young as two or three, ripped screaming from their parents. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like all the rest, she bore marks of the recent battle: There were grazes on her face and her robes were ripped. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What is this?” he demanded, fighting the urge to rip up the paper. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she ripped open her dress and thrust the horribly made-up breast into his face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ripping the paper off a gold wristwatch when Aunt Petunia came back from the telephone looking both angry and worried. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Anya stomped closer to the river, her words ripping out of her: “You broke the law too! Don’t you deserve to go to jail?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She leans over to pull a burrito out of the bag, rips off the foil, and shoves it into her mouth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I hope this story ends with you ripping her head off.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Remembering my work sewing uniforms, I bit at the seams that still held it on my jacket until I could rip it off. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scott ripped a hunk off a roll with his teeth and chewed thoughtfully. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He hurried over to her and ripped away the webs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of getting into the boat, Gram held up the letter to Cousin Eunice and ripped it into little pieces. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped off my skirt and petticoat and began flapping them like a demented bird in bloomers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He rips Aaron’s nose clean away from his face. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before I could do anything, I felt my sign ripped out of my hands from above. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The left wing went first—ripping away from the straps. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I rip through a wall of green into a small clearing and the sound repeats directly above me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bent the paper over the corner of their laminate countertop to rip it, but accidentally tore off the corner of Griswold’s photo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the way to make magic was to rip up my new thrift store clothes with a pair of scissors. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Thousands. Three thousand, four... aieeee... please ...” She ripped the spear out of him and drove it down two-handed through his lying throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When my shift finally ended, I ripped off my headset and visor and walked back to my hab-unit as quickly as I could. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a dented punching bag with sand spilling from its ripped side. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Finally she gets a good size hole in the tape and starts working it larger, until she can get her hand in and rip a whole flap off the top of the box. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I need it, Pita. It’s silk,” I explained, ripping it so I could pull out a single piece of thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instantly his followers scrambled into the bushes as their Chief ripped the tapestry into shreds, his mighty claws rending and tearing as he roared madly: “It’s a fake, a copy, worthless trash. Aaaaaarrgh!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The lead singer was ripped and ripe, the chicks had freaked, so it was no surprise there’d been a lot of tit-tight Brown Bag Ts coming through the gates that day. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His heart rattled against his ribs as he ripped open the door to the old closet and barreled up its narrow steps, on edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

You made friends only to have them ripped away one bright morning with no reason given. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Edward rips the sledgehammer handle from the Erudite man’s hands and swings again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She pantomined an investigation, ripping off the paper envelope and trying to bite off the end like our uncles did their cigars. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The tornado tore one more time at the shore on the opposite side of the lake— Brian could hear trees being ripped down— and then it was done, gone as rapidly as it had come. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I heard bonobo shrieks nearing, and before I knew it, the group had descended on us, drinking from the stream and ripping away their own mangoes from a nearby tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw Tom come up, whirling through smoke, saw a rip»in his coat, thought: no good to have a brother here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey ripped a daisy from the ground and popped the head off, but it only made her mother laugh again. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He rips off a hunk of meat and starts to chuckle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And now, with new Lady 'Stache Off’s triple beauty action™, you can moisturize and self-tan while you rip that unsightly hair from every pore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Try to hold the rip shut with my bloody fingers. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The dusty cover has been partially ripped away to reveal an old and obviously out-of-commission car. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Tag strolled over to the blockhouse, musing over the planks that had been ripped out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw its claws rip out an eye. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the cell door and ripped it off its hinges like it was made of wet clay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He used to like reading, but the bullies ripped his books to shreds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the dining room table, and he follows me, happily ripping his wrapper apart. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But then he turned and saw me and arched his eyebrow, that freaking eyebrow can I rip it off already. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It felt like his hair was about to be ripped right out of his head. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He rips a foot into the earth and slips back to a walk, hearing her voice call out, coming closer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mark feels as if his arm is about to be ripped from its socket, his muscles straining, screaming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe Bat Lady, but today, standing by my beloved father’s grave, missing him so much I wanted to rip my own heart out, I was oddly unmoved. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ignatius replied, ripping open his own shutters and looking out into the dark, cold alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her last words ripped out of her in a wail, plaintive and piercing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s ripped out the floors and window casings. All new and new painted.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No one ever understood!” the boy screamed over the horrible noise of the creature, crunching its way deeper into the Homestead, ripping the wall to pieces. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was burst after burst in the dirty air, yellow lightning shattering the ground, splintering rock, ripping limbs off the great trees and sending them twisting swirling dancing along the ground, along the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he ripped open the seat of his pants on the third try. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A guard ripped out his front teeth with pliers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He ripped the flower out of my hand. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He reached up with one hand and, with a deafening crack, effortlessly ripped a two-foot-thick branch from the trunk of the spruce. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then came another letter, this one to school officials from an irate fan who ripped into her for standing up too much during games and blocking his view. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed back into the house, into our bedroom, threw open the closet, yanked my black dress off its hanger, ripping the right sleeve, waking Jaimito with my piteous crying. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stands there for a moment before slowly and deliberately ripping in half. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the space around Werner tears in half, as though the last molecules of oxygen have been ripped out of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her left wing had a long rip that oozed blood. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I forgot that Mercedes ornaments do that—so they don’t get ripped off in car washes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We climbed higher still, and soon the roar of the burning rip in the sky filled my ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then she ripped open a drink-mix packet and poured in some red powder. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined tigers ripping the flesh off his bones and pythons strangling him slowly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I almost rip away from him, but I see the look on his face. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was blood already—he’d stumbled and ripped open the tender web of skin at the base of his thumb on a jagged splinter—and buckets of sweat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every wooden leg was broken, the upholstery ripped to shreds, hunks of stuffing strewn across the floor, along with the remains of the clock, flung from the wall and broken to almost unrecognizable bits. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Otherwise I wouldn’t hesitate to rip off the tracking monitor and make a run for it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Minli gasped as Dragon roared, the tiger’s claws ripping into his arm. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few times my books were accidentally ripped from my arms and pitched to the floor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped at the cord again and sat back for a quick breath, looking across the track to where Dandelion was waiting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of her arms had been struck, and one had nearly been ripped from the socket. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They push her against the car, ripping and tearing not just her clothes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For just then, a scream ripped through the stillness of the abbey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I stared at it for a few seconds before ripping open the plastic. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe that worked,” says Dylan as he rips open the envelope. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The shiny, shiny, ripped black shoe hit me right in my chest. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Where is everyone?" her sister wanted to know as she ripped the skin from a blood orange. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was the legendary sword of Gavin, the sword he had wielded in the fierce wars that had almost ripped apart the continent, the sword that had slain the Dark Lord Erawan. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Disgusted, the woman’s daughters threw the ripped sack on the floor in front of the twins. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If something had happened— I ripped off the covers, my blood like ice water in my veins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The slapping footsteps stopped and more laughter followed the sound of ripping cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The plane jolts forward, and my knees almost rip through the seat in front of me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A wind rips through the phone wires overhead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pick my way through trash—trees downed by storm and pieces of houses, sheds’ roofs ripped off. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mama had a conniption fit and ripped a sheet in two. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bullets ripping the legs right out from under a U.S. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Balekin’s expression is wild with fury, and he pulls against the bolt, as though he might rip his hand in half before he allowed this to happen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His ribs and leg felt as if they were being ripped from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“You’re not mending a rip in your father’s trousers. People are paying good money—” “I know how to sew,” I blurt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then ripped the half in half and twisted it into a paper worm. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He jumped to his feet and ran forwards as the picture of Martin was ripped away from the tapestry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You may not have much time. I’ll try to explain, calm them down. But you know how they are. Your father may rip this door from its hinges.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“It must have ripped open the kitchen tent,” said Hugo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were hurtling out to sea, the black water ripping them past the lighthouses and into the swift currents of the Callidian Strait. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had even worn it to her brother’s funeral, where it was ripped from her head by her more alert and slightly younger sister-in-law. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows and doors were gone, and as the house turned slowly in the water, Barry saw that one side had been ripped away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He feels too wholesome in this ripped jeans and T-shirt crowd, fears his hair was too recently washed and is too neatly combed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the anger rip through him, spark from his eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dell pulled an old piece of beef jerky out of the inside pocket of his jacket and ripped off a chunk with his coffee-stained teeth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She bent the paper over the corner of their laminate countertop to rip it, but accidentally tore off the corner of Griswold’s photo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My bedroom door ripped open and my mom staggered blind and breathless into the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My hands shook as I ripped open the bag and pulled out a seed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t just been gnawed on—it had been completely ripped in two. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“They’re better fresh,” he says, ripping a chunk of flesh from a shell and popping it into his mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She ripped through the sky like a meteor. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She handed him a scrap of paper which she had hastily ripped from a page of her film magazine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she doesn’t know that I flagrantly disregarded orders, ripped out my earpiece, and gave my bodyguards the slip? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I know they’re just looking for something to talk about, so I rip off my sunglasses, let them get a better look. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrust high into the jet stream, the mountain ripped a visible gash in the 120- knot hurricane, sending forth a plume of ice crystals that trailed to the east like a long silk scarf. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Falteringly I work my way farther, I move off over the ground like a crab and rip my hands sorely on the jagged splinters, as sharp as razor blades. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rip had appeared and was rapidly widening. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has some issues with people. It was abused or something. It’ll rip you to pieces. The Eagle put it there to keep us from walking around the lake to smoke.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They looked about them and saw that many of the pumpkins had been ripped from their vines and were lying, half eaten, on the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I still have my ripped Cinderella one from when I was a kid. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But the Count still could not rip his eyes away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The robes she wore had once been the lightest and finest of woolens, rich with embroidery, but now they were mud-caked and bloody and ripped. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it really captures the whole surviving-a-storm thing, you know? With the messy paper and the ripped corners, and you standing in your empty yard looking all tough and confident. It’s awesome.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted to rip out the page as a souvenir, but when he’d told this to one of his cousins, the cousin had laughed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not unusual, considering we ripped it out of the ground not so long ago. Give it some water from the canteen. Isn’t it a grand day for a drive?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Among the sounds of ripping flesh and popping sinew, her next words came over her shoulder, cold and final: “If I see it again, I’ll throw it in the fire with the logs.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fenchel sat all day on his table and he didn’t have anything to do, so he basted and ripped and sewed and ripped on the same piece of cloth over and over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Exhaling slowly, I rip everything I’m wearing off; the booties and the cap and the face mask and the scrubs and the gown. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The wardrobe doors stood open and the bedclothes had been ripped back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Cheers,” said Ron drowsily and, as he ripped off the paper, Harry got out of bed, opened his own trunk, and began rummaging in it for the Marauder’s Map, which he hid after every use. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s ripped and crumpled to the point where I don’t know if I’m looking at the to or the from. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Can’t believe they ripped up everything they got their ugly hands on,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She carefully rips the naked English guy out of my sketchbook, thankfully not noticing the drawing beneath it, and carries him with her over to the bed and sits down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Genie was in the kitchen, ripping a page out of his notebook for M.A.S.H. version #8, when Grandma plunked something in front of him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They ripped the backpack off him, searched it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t quit digging at his skin, making big scabs and then ripping off the scabs and scratching the open sores. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rip open my long-sleeved shirt and let it billow out behind me as thoughts zip through my head. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I pulled forward again, heard the shirt rip and felt his fingernails tearing the skin of my back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m keenly aware of the amount of skin showing through my ripped dress, and I try to draw the remnants of cloth together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She ripped it up into little pieces and dropped them into the wastepaper basket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprised, rather than rip him up, she ducked, and he swerved back at me, barely missed my eyes again, then wheeled up into a tree. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His fingers folded around it like spider legs as he attempted to rip it from Otto. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry looked over Hermione’s shoulder and saw an unrecognizable face lying on Bill’s pillow, so badly slashed and ripped that he looked grotesque. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“An estate sale in Nashville. Let ’er rip!” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She’d ripped right through it—the circular crest with a seagull soaring over water in front of a bridge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I write her a dozen letters that I rip up after finishing, and prepare a dozen post-balloons that I don't have the courage to send. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I began tearing at the hooks of my dress, ripping the stuff. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But one day I will have your tongue ripped out with hot pincers, and that will be hilarious. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I dug through the pile of things, found my old coat as well, and ripped out the seams. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved these people and am still in shock that they’ve been ripped from, our lives forever.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

When he said open up, I pictured him ripping open my chest and exposing all my organs, like a dead frog on a lab table. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One day when we were eating roast chicken, I ripped the thigh from the drumstick with my hands. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The thorns had torn a sizable rip in her, too. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rip off my gloves and grab some disinfectant wipes from a round bin by the door, scrubbing my hands down three times. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It bruised my face and ripped off a large portion of my hair from the side of my scalp. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a pencil and ripped a sheet of paper from my exercise book. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When he closed the door, I caught my skirt, and there was a loud ripping sound. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one motion she rips out the poster that had been inside her locker door for two years. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A maelstrom of sand and copper screws and plastic shards swirled around him, the debris of the ship-breaking business ripping at his skin as he ran barefoot down the beach to Pima’s shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate rips in the world. Let’s go bust some monster heads.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then, halfway down the next slope, a bright yellow plane rips overhead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Who ripped off the buttons to my new shirt?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was hit by a red van turning into the parking lot of the 7-Eleven he was ripping by at the time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We tore through ribbons of ripped shower curtains, the body lotion, the bleach, to the line of cash registers at the front of the store. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Still, there’s not much that can be done if a bullet rips right through the center of one. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Is it wrong for me to want to at least correct the misplaced apostrophe before I rip it off the wall and stuff it in my backpack? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Multicolored patches are sewn over spots where he ripped open, his stuffing pouring out when I squeezed too hard during the most painful of my treatments. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She ripped through her supply pouch and unwrapped a piece of godly food. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The men were leaping from chunk to chunk when the scream of Vemork’s sirens ripped through the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The serpent curled around, thinking it would snag the net with its tail and use its whole body to rip it asunder. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then came the winds, cold and raw, ripping through the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Violet wore the same dress each time and Alice was irritated by the thread running loose from her sleeve, as well as the coat lining ripped in at least three places she could see. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gino ripped a long shot that I dove for and caught in midair. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught an advancing blur moving in from the left, and the next thing I knew I was down on the ground, the dog ripping significant holes in the neck of my sweater. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The events were compound words that could never be ripped apart. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“So what are you saying? That we turn our family upside down because of gossip? What was the point of everything we went through if you just want to rip everything apart now?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The wind ripped a few strands of hair from her braid, and she tucked them behind her ears. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had ripped up about twenty pieces of paper trying to get it right. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Here in my bedroom, Vega, Markka and Darius gathered around and I ripped off the red-and-white wrapping paper, my heart thumping hard. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He rips the envelope from her coat, leaving the pin clinging steadfastly to its button. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His hand had bled a lot, his shirt was ripped and filthy, his hair was stiff with dust and sweat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It culminated in a fight between the two brothers that ripped them apart in a way that meant they would never be brought back together. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now that the hurricane had blown over, Becca’s dad had ripped the wood off the house and piled it up against the garage. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percyside. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She remembered the knives inside her, twisting and ripping. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A deep sadness rips through me, followed quickly by anger. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Blood pulsed from the rip in her arm. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been bom on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There I gave up my street clothes and was given a set of old army fatigues with the insignias ripped off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then with one hand Vidar will reach up and grasp the wolf's upper jaw and rip its mouth apart. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she ripped back the drapes, her breath caught in her throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In Santarem I met a woman who told me that the asphalt street in front of her home had just been ripped up by the municipal authorities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His shirt hangs ripped and streaked with browning blood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I ripped the envelope down the side and gave it a shake. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bike was ripped from my hands and passed into the crowd, instantly gone, and then the hands were back and voices were shrieking and the hands were on Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Go rip out the neighbor’s sprinkler heads. Kill the snakes.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I rip out every sketch I ever drew that reminds me of Jamie. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed tearing down the vines, grabbing at them with both hands and holding hard, as his hands slipped down, ripping off the leaves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally it loosened enough for me to slip my left hand up and out against my chest and rip the tape off. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like ripping a great bolt of silk, and the air fell in ragged ribbons away from her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I grab it, excited to deliver it to Aibileen, but when I open it, I see the middle section has been ripped out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This was the address I ripped off the box, so where's the building? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I cannot stand to let him rip him out of his shirt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Jordie refers to Pamela’s designer yoga pants as leggings, and she storms out, ripping one of the chains under construction right down the middle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the Mark I, these sparks packed the power of lightning bolts, ripping through the drift tubes and leaving behind what Pief Panofsky described as “spectacular stalagmites and stalactites of copper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I cap the marker and grab one corner of the calendar and rip it down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His pant leg is ripped by the teeth of a police dog, not as fierce as my Guapo back home, but scary-fierce anyway. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers ached to rip it off; it was an evil and black charm which would surely bring him death now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You stand next to the industrial-size box of Saran Wrap, ripping off pieces and passing them to her. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We went through a heavy canopy area, and the branches scratched my face and ripped at my hands. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sets it on the tabletop and rips the lid off, revealing a mess of fun-sized chocolates and heart-shaped lollipops and red-and-pink wrappers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A second later came another explosion of ripping wood: the front door. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Pain rips up my hand and I fall back, but just as quickly the pain is gone. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Aven,” he scolded, “do you have to make this place look like a tornado ripped through here?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I rip the armband off, revealing the ugly scar from the tracker. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He refused and was shot through the spine with a shell that ripped open his shirt front and dropped some of his guts onto the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not when there are throats to be ripped out...Delicious, delicious...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then she rolled up her inspection scroll so tight she ripped it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Each one of us sat at the center of a pile of ripped paper and empty boxes and gaily colored toys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“If you get a rip in your suit, you have to tape it shut right away or you’ll lose your pressure, and contaminated air could flow inside the suit.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He groped and ripped out his belt to beat the frightened horse to an awkward run over the stony, rutted wheel track. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid talked her husband into ripping up the forms they were supposed to submit to the authorities, reporting the twins’ arrival. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Luke tried to grab it and it ripped. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was unconscious again, and it was ripping me apart inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I felt like my heart was being ripped in two. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the middle of my room the next morning, I ripped open box after box of presents. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So there’s nothing you can do. You’re just going to let the city rip itself to shreds.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Beatty, his poker cards in one pink hand, walked with exaggerated slowness to the phone and ripped out the address when the report was finished. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enobaria looks to be about thirty and all I can remember about her is that, in hand-to-hand combat, she killed one tribute by ripping open his throat with her teeth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian ripped open the snaps of Snowden’s flak suit and heard himself scream wildly as Snowden’s insides slithered down to the floor in a soggy pile and just kept dripping out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He ripped off the compress, applied a fresh one, and told me to clamp it in place with my fingers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and rip my poster off the blackboard. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime, I clutch my brown bag, waiting near the door until the first rush of cafeteria noise dims: banging trays, ripping plastic, overtalking at too-crowded tables. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It's a thought that makes me want to rip out my insides and replace them with anything else. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And just then, an explosion rips through our dorm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced outside the coop to make sure no one else had made it to the roof yet, and I hastily ripped the seams of my father’s coat apart. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I push back from my desk, ripping out my earbuds as I go. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As I walk to class, Tats waves from the end of the hallway, where she’s ripping off posters for one or another of the many clubs she belongs to. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the cloud ripped apart, and I saw Typhon clearly for the first time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Soon she was pushing them out of her face, ripping through gauzy curtains that covered her like Silly String. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe your dad will haul it off to West Virginia, where I bet they’ll rip every one of those letters down and toss them in a furnace.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She ripped the page out of her notebook, balled it up, and put her head down on her desk. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Determined to finish quickly, I rip off the tails of the bean sprouts as fast as I can. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It had a rip down its side that had been clumsily sewn together. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As we get closer, we see there are rips. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At the end of the lesson, I realized that I couldn’t tell my mom that I had made this deal with Mr. Stoll, so I just ripped up the check she had given me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no warning, only a leap in like a flash, a metallic clip of teeth, a leap out equally swift, and Curly’s face was ripped open from eye to jaw. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remnants of the window scraped my sides, ripping my clothes and digging into my skin. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She felt as though her arms might rip themselves out of her body before she was done, and she might even welcome it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You might say, Okay, but when has a working-class Indian-American girl with a kooky dadi and ripped jeans ever become a famous filmmaker? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I let it sink in while Malloy ripped the white tape with his teeth. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In her forgetful rages, Dona Belen had taken it into her head to rip up her husband’s books, convinced there were love letters hidden in those pages. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was streaming into the rip in my sweats, pulling them away like a drift net. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All of the branches had been ripped away but one, which rose out of the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would rip up a section of track and fix it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lion’s paw rips up my throat, still I scream I hate everyone!!!! Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I rip the cord from the wall, roaring out, “What are you doing with all our things?! What are you doing with the TV?!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He told her, “The train ripped out my eye.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As I stepped out of my crouch, my stomach lurched and sensation ripped back through my body, the sudden pain doubling me over. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It arced high—so high it appeared like a second sun, or the start of a second rip—before dropping down behind a cluster of palaces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Large chunks had been torn out of it; one of the legs had been ripped off entirely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He cut all the way around, then ripped open the inner lining. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Officer Hull reached into it, pulled out another textbook, and ripped open both the covers, shaking the book in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He has also escaped his shackles beneath the earth and has returned to rip the throats of the warriors on the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The blood’s just pouring from a rip in his ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love like theirs turns two into one—so when my dad died, it was like ripping one entity in half, destroying my mom too. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mo was going to get ripped to shreds. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I cling to the tree with one arm while I rip the barbed stingers out of my flesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hope he knows we are here because we want his blood and will soon rip him apart for it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in two pieces now, ripped apart at the jaws. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When she came out again, she had on a sacklike blouse with ripped sleeves and a broomstick skirt that brushed the top of her feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, Annabeth had ripped this scarf out of my hands and said something like, Oh, no. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the center of the magazine were miniature posters you could rip out and stick up in your locker. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing a stream of blood dribble from El Perico's silent beak, I felt as though someone had ripped my heart out. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On one side the supply dump has been ripped open. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then rip it up, pulp it, and flush it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mags rips off a handful of hanging moss from a tree limb and gives it to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why why why, they sang, the mothers who staggered down our road behind small tightly wrapped corpses, mothers crazy-walking on their knees, with mouths open wide like a hole ripped in mosquito netting. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled a busted one from the trash and splinted the broken spoke with a rolled magazine and a plastic bag ripped into strips. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I could simply have ripped the “fruit” apart—I still call it that for lack of a better word—but I chose to satisfy my curiosity in a measured way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom is ripping open the cereal boxes and the bags inside, spilling the contents everywhere, so she can stomp on it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I pin her down at the wrists, but she thrashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As my ticket is ripped I'll briefly consider all the constructive things I could be doing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I worried that if I spoke or screamed my anger would grip both sides of my open mouth and rip me in half. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her private security guard was checking the rear the following night when an explosion ripped through her front door and window. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I always look forward to seeing Dr. Cooke, even though I often leave her office feeling like someone ripped my chest open. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could imagine her tramping through the rooms, perhaps paying sixpence for admission, ripping the quietude with her sharp, staccato laugh. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the palm trees in our courtyard were ripped and flattened from the wind of the helicopters, and looked far too defeated by war to accept my prayers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t take the envelope from me, to read it or rip it into pieces. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I drove the thoughts from my head and ripped at the shoe buttons with the buttonhook, yanking so savagely that one of the abalone rounds snapped free and rolled under the cot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She put her hand to her neck and gave a long vertical pull; her white sailor’s blouse was ripped to the hem; suspicion condensed into a too, too solid certainty. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gutted him, and buoyed him, ripped out his hearts and gave them back bigger. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rip death away from her and the owl. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next time she ripped herself away, she'd lose some skin. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was a scream, like material ripping into two shredded pieces. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She gasped as another convulsive pain ripped through her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A picture of Chairman Mao on this newspaper ripped in half. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this spot she could also still make sure no feral beasts were about to rip into the crowd. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Fadi skidded around the corner, ripping the head off a paper turkey in his haste. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It had ripped a huge hole in the canopy when it fell, creating a clearing that let in the light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It forced its way past my hands, roaring over the screams of a hundred teenage freaks, and settled at the center of my brain, where I couldn’t reach in and rip it out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Edward bared his teeth, crouching in defense, a feral snarl ripping from his throat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas ripped a length of cloth from the hem of his loose shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dag, I’m thinking, it wasn’t like Char was ripping out the sink. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn — the searchlights were back on again, expecting at any moment to feel the bullets rip through me even in advance of their sound. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai saw with horror that a chunk had been ripped out by the rat’s teeth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They ate in bed, picking up the herring with their fingers and ripping the baguette with their hands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Treasonous old woman. I could have her tongue ripped off for lying." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would not rip and I bit the edge of the cloth to start it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” he said, “but it got ripped, and now they’re both grounded ’cause of the cussing and the lamp.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Shredded holes in the wood where hardware had been ripped out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A large chunk of flak had ripped up from the floor through Aarfy’s colossal jumble of maps and had ripped out through the ceiling inches away from their heads. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Cut you open and rip them out, dripping. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’d rip anything like you have on all to pieces in about a week.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dove down and grabbed the snake by the tail and ripped it from Margo’s leg and threw it into the moat. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sack ripped wide open, of course, scattering my belongings, but I made it to the ground with nothing more serious than a grass stain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I watched in alarm, but instead of ripping Mr. O’Flanagan’s scalp off with his talons, Polly winked slowly in obvious pleasure and leaned into his hand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"So. There is your choice. The Night's Watch"—he reached inside the deer, ripped out its heart, and held it in his fist, red and dripping—"or this." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Glass tinkled; pieces of wood were ripped, groaning, from a wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the horse felt the pressure let up on his snout and heard Anya’s encouragement to go, he sprang forward, hooves ripping up the grass and throwing clods of dirt behind him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The city was suddenly separate, ripped from her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They had engulfed the great buildings and were slowly ripping apart the soft limestone with their roots. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So I spent long tedious hours trying to imitate her tiny, straight, even stitches, and she spent minutes ripping out my work and lecturing me none too gently on how bad it was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pages had been ripped out of Drum magazine and used as toilet paper, crusty stains smearing the print. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Can’t wait to rip their-—” But before the Keeper could finish, Thomas was on his feet and across the corridor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Screaming until I thought my throat would rip and my chest explode. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie had a large rip in his shirt, and Percy was sporting a bloody nose. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I sat beside him, undid my tunic and tried to rip the tail of my shirt. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the sidewalk, his back against the ripped wall of a bombed-out building. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Instead of finishing my homework, I grabbed an exercise book, ripped a page out and set about drawing a portrait of Ben. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Next he ripped down one of Mo's pressed flowers and broke the frame into splinters. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He said that he wanted to rip down the house he’d already built but his dad wouldn’t let him, so he planned to add The Amazing Deck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed it, slammed it onto a plate, and started smearing butter on it so hard that I ripped the bread. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They wrung rosaries and veils between their fingers, clutched their chests, ripped their hair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could do was watch as Polyphemus turned and ripped off Grover’s wedding veil—revealing his curly hair, his scruffy adolescent beard, his tiny horns. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred around them, ripping strands of hair from her braid. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The blue vinyl cushion is ripped down the middle, with the yellow stuffing inside about to burst out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The man ripped the little piece of paper clear of the register without moving his eyes from me and I watched him tuck it into the bag. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel was limping away from her attacker, her jeans ripped, her left leg bleeding. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I leap left and shag it on the fly, then rip it back to first. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the snowfall could hide the violence ripped through the missing fabric across Aileen’s body. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I read the note one more time before I ripped it out from under the metal clip and shoved it in my mouth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A pain ripped through my side, forcing me to stop. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He slices the canvas with my chisel, ruining it with a long, ripping sound that makes the entire class gasp. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She says it’s only going to be ripped to shreds anyway. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They have gone into my mind and have ripped images from it, turning the images into masks that look like people I love—but I know it’s just a lie. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere that a train can rip the clothes right off you when it hits. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul’s look of disgust ripped a hole in my chest. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Something ripped inside her as she looked in Ekon’s direction and watched horror spread across his features. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If he were alive, he would rip them apart with his bare hands. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wind ripped clouds across the face of the moon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We passed so close to the rotors I felt the force of the blades ripping at my hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Because a little bunny told me it’s about to rip its way inside.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Baloney,” Ben answered, “he wouldn’t notice if I ripped your nose off your head.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry turned and put his hands over his face, bracing for the feeling of teeth ripping at his neck. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

But also just wanting him to say it, to just rip the Band-Aid off. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, while echoes ripped the air and a whirlwind screamed overhead, the cauldron split and shattered. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Ma was going to make me rip down the House of Moneekrom tonight, I knew it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Some of the clothes have missing buttons or small rips and tears, and others need hemming or taking in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I rip off the ribbon and the wrapping paper to reveal a frame. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She ripped sticks of chewing gum from his pocket. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Ernie ripped the toy from Samantha, then dropped down to his knees, cooing at the dog as if it were a baby. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was the color of wet slate, and the wind ripped through the crowns of the trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma ripped my hat off my head and covered her mouth when she saw my huge bump. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When we opened the boxes up, we found a payload of raunchy, orangey red T-shirts faded out in places and with the odd ripped seam adding character. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He hung for a split instant in midair, looking down on the raft, on Derek—then he plunged down, down into the boiling, ripping water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mighty tear—Flux ripping the newspaper from O’Doyle’s clenched hands. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a bestial, lunatic cry, surely ripping the boy’s vocal cords to shreds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Lines of tornadoes destroyed everything in their path—ripping up houses and trailers, tossing cars around like Matchbox toys. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The belly of one is ripped open, the guts trail out. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fat Lady’s ripped canvas had been taken off the wall and replaced with the portrait of Sir Cadogan and his fat gray pony. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You own this place. Tell me what you know if you don’t want me to rip out the walls to see what you’re hiding!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Gosling recalled, “Rosalind let rip in her best pedagogical style: ‘you’re wrong for the following reasons’...which she proceeded to enumerate as she demolished their proposal.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of the men reaches toward my face and rips the duct tape off my mouth. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We stayed underwater for what felt like a minute but was probably a few seconds before we were ripped upward again, this time inside the wave. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped it up and threw it away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Rydell ready to rip my head off stood a uniformed deputy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She picks it off her face and rolls it into a ripped piece of the candy bag. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Cotton, on drums, pounded out a driving, steady beat, and Kaira ripped into the next song. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

As we watched, he ripped off the tips of his long fingernails one after another and placed them within the bowl, on top of the koka. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Here’s rosemary; that’s for remembrance,” I said, tucking a sprig into his doublet, which had been ripped and smeared with dirt in the fray with the guards. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A giant was ripping up trees in Bryant Park while dryads pelted him with nuts. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I opened that door, looked at the sleeve ripped a good three inches in the shoulder seam. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the meat charred, Cole ripped off chunks and ate. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Without a second thought, Stella ripped it into wide strips, which she wrapped loosely round and round her mother’s leg. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With deft movements of his claws, he ripped aside the dead man’s clothes, opened the body with one slash, and began to feast on the flesh and blood of his old friend. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say anything about fair. Kampe’s not going to be fair if we hang around. She’s going to blame you for ripping off the bars. Now come on!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, her eyes never leaving mine, she ripped up the entire tree and brandished it at me, shrieking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A loud splashing echoed in the air, and a giant beast burst from the lake as if ripping through a paper moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With a huff, Emily ripped the page from her notebook, crumpled it, and dropped it with the other failed attempts littering the cab of the moving van. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He came in last and ripped his coat of many colors, but he didn’t seem to care. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Smiling again, Nat grabbed an ear of corn, ripped back the husk—the ear was red. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as he hated me, he probably should have ripped it to pieces. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then rips three new tickets from the printer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I would remember everything, like a wound ripping open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The thatch had been ripped from some, where others stood there was now only a heap of mud with their owners’ possessions studding them in a kind of pitiless decoration. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d hate it, and I hated my dad for all his plans to rip me out of Greenwood and ruin my life. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She paused before it, and then, with one violent, diagonal stroke, ripped away more than half of it and let it fall to the floor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Let ’em rip,” he said, and handed the car keys to Small Boy, who walked around to the back and unlocked the trunk. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must stop it. Forget your friendships, forget your debts and oaths. Destroy it, before it is too late, before a portal is ripped open so wide that there can be no undoing it.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Would he think we had forsaken; him and deliberately ripped his wife’s clothes—viciously broken the pigs? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I bit down savagely on a hangnail and ripped it so deeply that the blood started. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the backwash hit him, ripping him under and far out. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence ensued for a minute, while Joe angrily ripped a few things loose from the tractor’s engine and unloosened a couple of bolts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we’re filthy. My shorts are ripped. See? We can’t be seen on TV looking like this. What will people think?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His father would be cold, he thought, with that great rip in his overalls. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone . . . help . . . me!” he screamed; each word ripped his throat raw. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They’d clip Mark within seconds and either tear him to pieces or rip him from the rope. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I rip an armful from the nearby trees and carry it back to the beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped the paper off to reveal the whole title: The Science of Housewifery. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Simeon unrolled the newspaper; glanced at the front page, which was a story about a school bus falling from the sky; and ripped it in half. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He spent two hours sewing up the rip with fishing line. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really witty, giving us books that try and rip our hands off!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ripped away the rest of the wrapping paper to find an old hardback book, dog-eared and missing its dust jacket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She had a bulletin board with silly pictures taken at people’s birthday parties and dried flowers and pages ripped from magazines that were too nice to throw away. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He strode onto the door—which had been ripped from its hinges, had broken through the door braces, and lay on the ground. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The foresail was ripped down the middle, and the ship listed badly to starboard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of my shoes had a rip in the heel and every time I took a step it looked like my shoe was opening its mouth to say something. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A wind rips up from the mouth of the tunnel and blows his cap off. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just totally rips your heart out of your chest and then brutally stomps on it. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

From inside the crate came ripping noises that sounded to Harry as though the teddy was having his head torn off. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They had cut off communications, pulled down power lines, demolished bridges, and ripped up railroad tracks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As if to prove his point, black lightning ripped through the sky, leaving dark spots before Frank’s eyes and making the hairs on his arms stand up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The way Taisin herself had felt when she had ripped into the fabric of the world to kill those wolves—that was only the beginning of what this woman could do. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gunfire rips through the crowd, and several people near me slump to the ground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With his explosive-tipped arrows, he rips the far side of the bridge from its foundation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When he got a response two weeks later, he ripped the letter up after reading it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He been getting on my nerves anyhow. But when he went and ripped your book...I’m staying away is all.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It showed a boy, hair flopping in his eyes and bulging muscles ripping his shirt sleeves—Dimple snorted—handing a fierce-looking girl a paper flower. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the slave women quickly daubed her leg with mud and wrapped it tightly with strips of cloth ripped from their own dresses. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slides onto the bank, zips open the pack, rips out the rope. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We slipped off the boar’s back while he was busy ripping up cacti. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His hair was longer than Harry had ever seen it: He appeared to have suffered several gashes to his face and his clothes were ripped and torn. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But instead of ripping the ropes out of their hands and smashing the canoes against the rocks, the force of the current kept the canoes pinned underwater. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Soon they were on top of Mark, a dozen or more, punching and kicking and seemingly trying to rip him apart. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Stanley's blisters had ripped open, and new blisters formed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His coat was ripped, with stuffing coming out. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then, all accumulated in the rip of a claw, he felt again all the terror that had tormented him in his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I let the rip take me, dove down again, up and down, until there was Noah floating faceup, alive, but not conscious. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The needle is ripped from the spinning record, and I wish it hadn’t been. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry ripped open the paper and found page thirteen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sun hung low above the reed-beds along the western bank, as the wind began to gust and rip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And he was gone, his hand ripped from mine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two open boxes and ripped Christmas paper lay on the floor nearby. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap of burlap and ripping it from the bag. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hair was ripped from Laila’s scalp, and her eyes watered with pain. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We ripped up our slips and bandaged the worst. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was drawn in the twilight, as if the flush of anger had been ripped out of him and he’d been left with nothing more than gray sadness. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Pieces of a sheet of a paper are taped to the door, but someone’s ripped it off so nothing’s left but the corners. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Rolling, ripping, kicking, they fought until the both of them were ragged and fresh blood dappled the snows around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though the weather was chill enough to turn their breath white, their clothing was drenched with sweat and nearly ripped to shreds by the grasping brambles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had ripped open the feather mattress in search of valuables, littering the floor with mounds of horsehair and goose down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The man’s hand comes up and grips Mark’s arm just as the material starts to rip. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

George was in favor of ripping up the pantry floor. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Log-a-Log ripped the cloth band from his brow and flung it down. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mama was going to rip into me for sure. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He grabs a pen and small notepad from his pocket and scribbles something, then rips out the page and hands it to me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Seven! Isn’t it bad enough to think of killing one person? And in any case...bad enough to divide the soul...but to rip it into seven pieces...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Again the young bull’s flank was ripped deep, and again the force of the blow threw him backward into the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a new letter finally arrives, he does not even take off his coat before ripping open the envelope. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia rips off another section of the flyer and starts balling it up between her fingers. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I accidentally ripped Julia’s before I gave it to her, and accidentally crumpled it a little too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Each time she did, he ripped it off. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gregor touched his cheek and found that welts had formed where the webs had ripped off. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And it was like being ripped from a dream. It was like I was being pulled into two directions, pulled between something old and something new.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The tide drift had taken him down into the kelp, and he’d wasted four hours extricating himself so as not to rip his gill-net. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked down on her chest which was as flat as a washboard and ripped the page out of the book. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave me alone,” I hiss under my breath, peeling off the plastic suit, ripping off the face mask and goggles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I feel the old urges, the desire to punch and rip, to see blood before my fury is spent. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had new clothes, made by tailors in the camp who ripped apart military uniforms at the seams and refashioned them into civilian clothes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody groans and there’s the sound of ripping paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The little hairy man had taken Tristran's ripped coat and trousers and waistcoat and, leaving him covered by a blanket, had walked into the village which nestled in the valley between three heather-covered hills. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He rips a piece of duct tape from a large roll. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Come. . . come to me. Let me rip you. Let me tear you. Let me kill you. Harry gave a huge jump and a large lilac blot appeared on Veronica Smethley’s street. “What?”he said loudly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not taking my chances again,” Njemile said, ripping down a poster about the stages of grief. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Goddammit, you are trying to pick a fight with me. For two stinking cents I’d jump over this big fat table and rip your stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess,” I said, wishing he’d forgive me for forgetting about the weeds and rip up the ticket. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She draws until her crayons break and her paper rips. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She felt the pain in her cheek, like it was her own flesh being ripped to pieces. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then another hoarse scream erupted, sudden and desperate and just as suddenly silenced, broken off by lurid, ripping bone snap. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Lymon might as well have ripped my heart out right along with those pages. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s on the hunt for kitchen maids,” Fizz tells me, ripping open a bag of chips. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She ripped up some strips of fabric and made makeshift bandages for Hugo’s hand and Isabelle’s foot. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I scream after him, feeling a sharp pain, knowing my cut’s ripping wider. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He started drinking the muddy water, then ripped a saguaro cactus out of the ground and chewed it, needles and all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Broken wooden poles ripped through the canvas as it flapped upward. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d ripped right through it—the circular crest with a seagull soaring over water in front of a bridge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That the scandal was a message sent to warn the good and rip up the faithless. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It ripped her open----" "Don't tell me, old sport." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The net is all ripped and hanging by a string. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Like throwing us into a pool of piranhas or ripping our fingernails out?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I approached, a great surf of traffic engulfed me, waves of station wagons, rip tides of roaring trucks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke ripped open my presents, tasted the icing before the cake was cut, and as he blew out my candles, he spit all over everything—spoiling every aspect of my party. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Feral ripped a snowstorm from some far-off sky and they had snow for dessert with plum jam stirred in, but she could scarcely enjoy it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder what William Wallace said when they were tying him to the horses that would rip him into quarters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He pulled on it, and with the sound of thick paper ripping apart, the vine came unattached from the wall—more and more as Thomas stepped away from it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was the drawing of her family that she’d ripped out of her notebook the night of the storm—the one that was most definitely missing Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He rose from the ripped sofa and walked to the window, which he jimmied until it screeched open. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But why rip me up and stuff me in a bag?” he asks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sleep didn’t come, couldn’t come with the insects ripping at him, so he lay the rest of the night, slapping mosquitos and chewing with his mind on die day. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polybotes ripped an oak tree out of the ground and threw it into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their clothes had been ripped and torn and stripped from them since they had been taken from their homes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s scowling, ripping, balling paper with his fist. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even when Valerian rips down our deer hide. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sharp, sudden gusts carried away some of their stores the moment they were set down and ripped one of the threadbare tents to shreds. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Worn bicycle tires, bottles with peeled labels, ripped up magazines, yel­lowed newspapers, all scattered amid a pile of bricks and slabs of cement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a violent explosion that seemed ripped from the very center of the earth, Spiral Castle crumbled in on itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The curtains were torn from the windows, and a door was nearly ripped off its hinges. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ! Sounds like that one ripped a hole in the ground,” one of the twins shouted from the main latrine behind a dense thicket. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The dream continued as the egg was ripped from my grasp, and I felt myself being torn to shreds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By then Hold-Your-Nose Billy had ripped open the opposite coach door. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the weird, terrifying, horrible experience of losing his memory and getting ripped out of his old life —Hazel and Frank were the bright spots. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And none of the danger. No Malay gangs climbing up your cable and ripping your...uh...well...knifing you with those wavy daggers.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had savagely ripped into Gaines then, as if the seven and two record the team compiled was the same as not winning a single game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t let him near me—not that night, and not any night for months—without shuddering as that word, my word, ripped its way into remembrance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nicasia still sits atop hers, her head ripped back, laughing at something he said. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He ripped off a chunk of meat with his fingers and stuffed it in his mouth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounds as if it will rip through her chest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Serves me right,” I say, picking up the painting carefully so it won’t rip. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But when I searched my room earlier this morning, every pair I owned seemed to be ripped, or covered in Boomer hair. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My cars felt hot Sloan handed the photo to his ugly buddies, who snickered and started ripping it up to make spit wads. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got my first real glance at him out of the corner of my eye as he ripped the polish-stained cloth out of my hand and moved to my side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It ripped my heart out to see you come that close,” he said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Evan had been running his hand through his hair, and he ripped it away so fast he tore some out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Wind and rain ripped at the palm trees along the sidewalk. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, he felt as if he could grab hold of the very air and twist it around Lily and rip her right in two— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The lawns of the Night Zoo were in ruins, ripped apart and scorched black. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her dress was ripped and slightly scorched and she wore only one shoe. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I stood so quickly that the seams under my arms ripped open with a snarl. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad examined the gash in my leg, which had been ripped wide as the spike had fallen away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wore ripped black jeans and a battered aviator’s jacket that was several sizes too big, unzipped over a black shirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of ripping the wrapping paper off she hunted around to find each piece of tape, then peeled it off real carefid. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels a bit like I’ve gone back in time, the wound he made years ago ripped open again, new and fresh. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t stop feeling and start instructing, I’m going to rip out your eyes and replace them with these billiard balls.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But now she was sprawled on the ground, her black hair a wild mess, as if she’d been ripping it out by the handful. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rip my jaw from my mouth, just to be rid of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m a girl! The daughter of Ares! Now untie me so I can rip your arms off!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped open the bag of bread and yanked out two more slices. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And when the police entered his house to arrest him, they found him sitting on the floor amidst mountains of candy, ripping off the wrappers with the blade of a long dagger. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Although I'm shaking in the biting wind, I rip off my jacket, remove my shirt, and zip back into the jacket as swiftly as possible. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And the words ripped out of her: ‘‘Without one kiss?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered how much it would hurt to have your ear ripped off. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Lovely,” said Rita Skeeter, yet again, and she ripped the top piece of parchment off, crumpled it up, and stuffed it into her handbag. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward on the couch and ripped the seam along the back of the jacket. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing Katie did in their old home after it had been stripped bare and had that look of a near-sighted man with his glasses off, was to rip up the tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a resounding snap, the Eye of Elena ripped from her neck. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I raised my sword, but before I could strike, Tyson ripped the monster’s grading machine out of the floor and threw it at the Sphinx’s head, ruining her hair bun. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The second I hand them over, he rips them open and pours a bunch into his mouth. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s like an assault. Someone ripping into your personal space, taking it away from you. It’s assault. That video is an assault on you and Max.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Benton grabbed it from his friend, who slowly walked out of the room, and ripped it open with little hesitation. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then he ripped his hands down, and a huge ball of water shot out of the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“The beast. The one in the yard. The one at the other house. The hideous one that almost ripped out my throat.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He ripped off another hunk of meat and chewed it thoughtfully, looking around the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It flipped the chassis, bouncing it across the road and ripped the engine apart as if it were no stronger than a spiderweb. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby ripped his hand away from Luke, still looking only at Lily. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The kid clawed at the paper clip and ripped it out of his neck. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He lifted his muzzle to the sky and a whining scream ripped from his throat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

All the words that would make my mother rip my lips from my face if she heard me right now. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon and the place looked pretty empty, but we ripped off our wings as quickly as we could. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But that don’t sound right, so I try Miss Cook, my daddy got mad when I wasn’t doing my schoolwork and ripped up this book. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie pointed at the jeans ripped in both knees, the white shirt so stained with blood and dirt it would have to be tossed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And how much”—Dad wasn't backing off—“did this vagrant rip you off for?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I ripped the white ribbons out of my hair and threw them out the window. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He wanted the pleasure of physically ripping them to pieces. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Also, my knee hurt, and my tights were ripped. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newt had barely finished his sentence when a sudden, piercing scream ripped through the air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I would rip off my visor and leave my apartment for the first time in six months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Alex sits, watching Luna rip open the packet with his teeth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

V smoothed her hand over the photograph she’d ripped from the book, the faces tinted lightly brown from the sun shining through the tarp above. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled on one of the sleeves so hard that it ripped at the shoulder. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts might not be real, but Fig being ripped from our home and given to another family scared me to death. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“He saved me! Cristo salva!” some brother cried, poking at his eyes as if he was in torment; as if he was Oedipus about to rip his eyes out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It builds like a tidal wave and crashes over me, through me, ripping the inside of my throat raw. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I’d learned the hard way that if people teased Tyson while he was dressing out, he’d get upset and start ripping the doors off lockers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which got me thinking I was soon ’bout to get ripped to shreds by the brothers and sisters of the dog that I’d chunked. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The window had been too small for him to enter through, so he had ripped out part of the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The storm was ripping the roof tiles clean off the house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He kept sheathing and unsheathing them with a feeling of intense wellbeing, and used them to rip off its fur. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The ground ripped apart like a snapping mouth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Except for Boobie, the students had their notebooks open, while the rip of an envelope and the shuffling of paper floated from his desk. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had ripped the tape from her eyes and replaced it with a tight bandage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket was crumbled, the red-and-blue striped bag ripped and deflated. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The dogs attacked the protesters—ripping clothes and biting flesh. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It fit because of where and how it was ripped—the dress she’d worn to the Winter Ball her first year. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A great knife of pain ripped down her back, and she felt her skin tear open and smelled the stench of burning blood and saw the shadow of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We can’t even take the small revenge of ripping up their stationery. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some on thick paper and some that looked like they were ripped out of her sketchbook, because they had crinkled edges on the side. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I decide not to mention to them that if I’m not back by midnight, I’ll be ripped from my current body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I opened it immediately, careful not to rip the excellent artwork, as my desk mates leaned in for a closer look. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For his pitiful sake, I ripped open the package he’d brought. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He added something to what he’d already written and ripped off the corner where the writing was. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He felt the ripping of his skin all over again and heard once more the breaking of his bones. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When Chucha first saw it, she told Mami to take the dress back to the seamstress and have that rip sewn up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Sliding, ripping a diagonal line through metal, concrete, and glass. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled a torn sleeping shift from the ragbag and, using her teeth to start, she ripped it into several strips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The skin was beginning to rip outward from the wound in a starburst pattern not too different from the one on my shoulder, except that his was shiny with pus. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She veered away before it could rip out the bottom of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the floor and ripped open the package right there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I groan and rip out a piece of notebook paper. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had just set foot on the marble staircase when he heard it yet again — “Kill this time... let me rip .. . tear...” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He ripped the zipper in the other one because he filled it with so many books. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dip in pressure would indicate a rip, which could prove fatal in the long term. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was about to close my notebook when Matt Sloan reached over and ripped the photo out of the rings. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She slowly removed her dress, like she was afraid she’d rip it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I rip up the map, letting all the countries and cities and towns fall at my feet. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He kept six, I kept six. To be honest, I thought he was going to rip me off, but he never did.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A tree across the street had been ripped from its roots and lay across the road, branches spread over his driveway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They contain endless pages of glyphs and symbols, ringed in text ripped from other sources, affixed to one another and inscribed over and over. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A morning breeze sent them all shuddering, ripping a few from where they clung to the skeletal branches. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Furious with the novel, she ripped the copy-book apart and stuffed it into the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached across the coach and pawed at me, ripping my reticule from my waist. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My old, ripped notebook from last year with the torn black cover and half the pages ripped out. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was huge, with ripped muscles from working on the forges every summer, two years older than me, and one of the camp’s best armorsmiths. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Agent Fiona brings our group to a quick stop when agents come bustling through a doorway struggling to control a ten-foot tall furry creature in ripped blue jeans and a green Save the Trees T-shirt. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

‘I will rip apart your silly net! I will destroy you!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He watched as the direwolf buried his teeth in the wight's gut and began to rip and tear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But man, all of a sudden the wormhole was ripped wide open. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He dreamed that the Spirit Bear was ripping at his leg. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The hammer blows were falling on the nails that ripped through the flesh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them sent to the front cab climbed up and ripped the door open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was furniture overturned, the mattress was ripped open, bureau drawers upside-down on the floor, their contents strewn and mounded. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped off the wrapping paper and inside a box were a set of three cotton dish towels hand- stitched with my name on them. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I ripped it open right there in the driveway. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall through a rip in the fabric of space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled his hands back and squatted down, ripped open the cupboards below the sink. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’ve never liked her and always accused her of ripping you off!” the vendor from the nearby fruit stand shouted. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was running away into the Big Woods, with the panther riding on his back and ripping his back with its claws. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bland Muzak plays in the Vista Lounge through speakers that are built into the ceiling, so we couldn’t grab them and rip them out if we tried. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even think of a Little Bob line to rip off. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They ripped off their numbers and barricaded themselves in their cells. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled, a litde dreamy, and was about to rub the scarf against my cheek when Annabeth ripped it out of my hand and stuffed it in her pocket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And George is already pulling off his shirt, ripping it away from his body, and Axel is taking his off too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two doors had been ripped open, David’s mother and another Smokey freed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The helicopter ripped by overhead and the noise it made sucked up all the air around it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Time’s getting thin. The rip has nearly reached the mainland. We’ve got to hurry.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For me, watching two champions rip into each other is not enjoyable, but Kilorn loves it. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

You flipped open your notebook and ripped out a piece of paper. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Boards creak and the floor is ripped up and gaping. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin on my fingers was all ripped up and my legs was shaking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was finished ripping things out, her web looked something like this: Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I grab the bat and rip it out of her hands. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Hey! What if we rip open the envelope and then put the letter in a fresh one? We’ll just rewrite the address!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

With a loud clunk, and then a squishing sound, the entire arm ripped free of its socket, falling to the floor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The papers were falling out everywhere, ripped and torn. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In Oklahoma they put two-ton winches on the fronts of their trucks to rip out tree stumps and even then, some of them won’t move. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Show us exchanging gunfire with the Peacekeepers, although not the mutts ripping off their heads. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When I saw a copy of Hansel and Gretel in a bookstore window, I went in and grabbed it and ripped it to shreds, and Vivian had to pay for it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“No, we can’t leave until reinforcements come. The monsters will rip this place apart.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Their clothes were ripped to tatters by late morning when Jemmy and the prince caught sight of the sparkling river. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The family’s badly burned ’78 Camaro was discovered last Saturday on a north Long Island road with the roof ripped off and the front axle broken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He held out both his hands, took mine, and kissed them, and then they were ripped away, because Mrs. Diamant was stripping off my coat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a ripped- off pocket, and inside was a matchbook. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She jumps down from the tree and opens her mouth and lets out such a scream that I’m sure the gates of hell are ripping open. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s even considered ripping up the index card, letting it fall to the ground in a one-thousand-piece mess. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“How does that pertain to the ripping down of my house, James?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in black stepped quickly over the corpse, then roughly ripped the blindfold from the Princess’s eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three guys had ripped bed sheets into strips and then braided them into a rope. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He heard a wrenching screech: they were ripping open a crate. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I rip it open at once and inside there's a feast -fresh rolls, goat cheese, apples, and best of all, a tureen of that incredible lamb stew on wild rice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The branches ripped at us, vines caught at our feet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying not to look at Kaitlin s pale face, Diana ripped several long strips of duct tape off the roll with her teeth and hung them from the leg of an overturned chair. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My skirt is ripped to my thigh, and a sleeve of my shirt hangs by a few threads. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It crashed down again and this time the silver teeth ripped across her eyes and her blood splattered the dirt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sonia has made him a card with Magic Markers, on paper she’s ripped out of one of his own sketchbooks, which says “Happy Birthday Goggles,” the name she insists on calling him instead of Dada. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My stars scattered, and my moon was ripped from its orbit. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The lock face itself has been ripped out—probably vandalized sometime in the last few centuries. But I should be able to control the mechanism inside, if I can...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He writes Guilty and holds it up before ripping it into pieces. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A wave two stories high rolled up on us and ripped the boat into its crest, and then the sea dropped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were nearly there when another shifting whirlpool ripped them away. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The sight of it frustrates me so much, I flip the page back too hard and accidentally rip its corner. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His purple cloak had been ripped to shreds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A blinding, electric-blue hole ripped the very air next to Mr. Flux, and a man ejected from it feet first, as if from the end of a steep waterslide. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like having our throats ripped open by whatever is waiting for us out there. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cala lets it rip, and I position my glove and await the telltale thunk and slight throb of my palm inside my glove. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I wrote a letter to Lord Dunmore, which I saw read by its messenger and ripped in eight before my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They ripped off his shirt and pants, dipped a brush in green paint, and slapped the dripping bristles against his bony body. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me kind of sick to hear Grandma rip the skin off the catfish. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this the giant’s wife wailed and sobbed as if each cry were being ripped from her soul. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At last she slid it inside one of the rips in a couch cushion for safekeeping. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally he looks at the big, ugly wound on Shiloh’s hurt leg, torn open right to the bone, the bites around Shiloh’s neck, and the ripped ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing her hair in two braids down her back, a white T-shirt and ripped jeans. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

An officer approaches him like he’s a serial killer or something and slowly reaches into the pocket of Darren’s sport coat, which is now ripped at one shoulder. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When she had to rip it loose, she began to cry and could not be comforted. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya later thought that it was more like ripping off a huge bandage—inevitable, but you still knew it would hurt like hell. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There was a great wrenching as the wings caught the pines at the side of the clearing and broke back, ripping back just outside the main braces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sailed straight into those jaws of death, their small, red bodies taking the ripping, slashing claws meant for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped my way out of my room a while later and stepped onto the porch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then there’s a soft hiss, followed by a ripping noise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the pink ones Nan hadn’t managed to rip down. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He was sweating and pacing and his hands were in his hair like he was going to rip it all out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She slides along the fuselage, rips off the hatch, and enters. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was raining, hard, thunder snarling and rumbling and ripping through the sky. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A herd of baby strollers parted the mass of bodies and ripped our hands apart. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For centuries men had dived down and torn the oysters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one of its forelegs ripped to the shoulder, it turned and made off, the younger one following. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want me stretching my neck over her way, ripping open the peace with any talking. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rips her hands on the tough, woody stalks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That my heart might stop without the fragments of metal that would rip it apart? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Danny came over and was drunk, or on the pills, and just started ripping into Terryl, telling her she was nothing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A block away, I retrieve the napkin from my pocket, rip off my message, and place it on my tongue. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Houses are demolished, people killed, ancient trees ripped from the ground. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dad had clawed at his throat and his chest as if to rip them open. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tail end of my jacket catches on fire and I have to stop to rip it from my body and stamp out the flames. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You want the truth?” she snarls as she rips up the form and hurls it into the trash. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sound of gunfire had ripped a seam in my mind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When anger rips a hole in me now, I punch a wall, or run ’til the wind cuts my breath off. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad ripped a bunch of paper towels from the roll, cleaned up Penny’s mess, and wiped her nose with a wet paper towel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He grabs the crab from behind as it emerges from its hole and rips off the claws and throws them away and then devours the rest of the crab. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like a good idea until I’m standing at the bus stop in front of school as a blizzard rips through the county. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With every flake, another memory was ripped from her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each of them so young and so easily ripped away. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sigurd punched his other arm out the side, grabbed handfuls of willow branches, and ripped them away from his chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She shrugged, ripping off some bread and plunging it into her bowl. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was really glad of that, because I was getting so hot inside my garment that I was about to rip it open, germs or no germs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” my dreadful smile stretching across my face, “thanks most awfully once again, it’s been so ripping...” using words I had never used before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was behind a pine tree, and out of the ripping wind. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

What remained of them was strewn about the road: shattered armor, ripped clothing, swords and spears broken in half. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Furious, I went back to the storage room to finish ripping open a crate of canned Alaska salmon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But before I could even consider the cost of staying with them, if just for a short while, Chubs’s arm shot out and he ripped the sliding door shut in front of my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then, one by one, they each let out little yelps of victory and ripped pages free. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He eases the bag open, its paper corners crinkling, steam bursting through the ripped opening. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He rips a piece off my shirt and ties it on my mouth so I can't be shouting, he says, and wake up the neighborhood. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He leans down and rips the bandage off his leg, eliminating the final barrier between his blood and the earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Grandpa said surely that’s what it was, and he ripped off a chunk of it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Highlander was ripping up the road again, coming from the opposite direction. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As if it wasn’t just growing, it was ripping itself out of the ground and sneaking around on skinny white roots. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is stupid, I think, grabbing hold of the page and ripping it out the diary. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Handing over a rebar sometimes meant ripping skin from one’s palms and fingers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I made a bone needle, cut out the pants by ripping up one pair of old city pants for a pattern. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I stared straight ahead at the ground, just like everyone else, silent and still as the man beside me was ripped apart. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His chisel-like foreteeth bit steadily and he felt the dry strands rip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cady moved to snap closed the top, something fluttered out of the ripped lining, just flittered to the floor, as though Fate had wanted her to find it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, without stirring from her daybed, Emily had guessed that Lola was undermining Briony’s play, a suspicion confirmed by the diagonally ripped poster on the easel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I began to claw at my throat, ripping my shirt open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, a couple weeks after Mom died, he jumped off this same Devil’s Drop, got caught in a rip, and almost drowned. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But there were days when the wind ripped up the surface of Lake Washington so badly that nobody could row on it without being swamped. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I convulsed, arching my body and ripping my wrist away from Shawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Celaena paused for a moment before saying: “His brain. Someone had made a hole in the top of his head, and his brain was gone. And the skin from his face had been ripped off.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And heard the assault coming, up the rocks, clawing up through the bushes, through the shattered trees, the pocked stone, the ripped and bloody earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princess Elia of Dome pleading for mercy as Rhaegar's heir was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed that two of the heads were ripping apart a piece of yellow canvas—one of our duffel bags. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They learned how to rip off the legs first, then lift back the top shell. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And—” “And when he found Mondragon irrigating that beanfield with the dead sow off in a corner he stopped and ripped off a chamber load 4t our hero from a distance of about thirty yards.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rips one of Jude and me down the middle, cuts me right out of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ll look like an idiot either way. Matt, she’ll rip the sweetness out of you, right through your rib cage. You’ll never be able to squeeze it back in there. Look at him mope now.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rip the back open and grab the note. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were walking down the block, coming from the corner store, Noodles ripping paper off cheap dime candy and tossing it on the sidewalk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In the same instant, Nate was ripped up off the ground. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Magnar all but ripped the maiden’s cloak from Alys’s shoulders, but when he fastened her bride’s cloak about her he was almost tender. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Momma said she didn’t want to hear about it, and she had ripped up every note, without reading any of them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could rip through a line of soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

An eerie sucking noise followed Dri into the water as the surface healed itself where she had ripped a hole into it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I used to rip it with my hands, just for the sheer fun of tearing something apart. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiercely, he ripped the shelves off the wall, revealing a window closed in with ancient shutters and dirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sansa heard cloth ripping, followed by the softer sound of retreating footsteps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens more tendrils curled around the masts, encircling the crossbows and ripping down the rigging. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could have ripped through the blanket and torn my flesh if he had so chosen, but the Handsome One was always gentle with me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Quickly, his mother, whose demon brother had imprisoned her and her husband, ripped a piece of her sari and swaddled the baby in it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Huntsmen lashed out with their weapons, only to have them ripped from their hands and tossed into the scrub. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Hazel had had things stuck in her eye before, and it did not make her want to rip her face off. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

His dark hair was plastered across his forehead, his T-shirt ripped to shreds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reyna ripped through the supply bag that Phoebe had given her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Often, their screens were ripped or doors hung askew. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while she didn’t have a tiger’s heart, she would rip you to shreds if given the chance. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I shouted while Calista ripped, because all zombies cared about was eating brains, and I needed to practice. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stay up while the house is quiet, drying clothes by the fire and sewing a rip in Helena’s skirt where I didn’t sew it very well in the first place. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pulled on the right pocket and it ripped. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma had called her a girl genius, but Evan had ripped his paper in half and run upstairs, shouting "I hate you!" just before slamming his door. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Liver pate,” I mutter under my breath, which is code for: Ms. Wyman should rip his liver out, toss it in a blender, and serve it on crackers. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t intended the map as a clue—and the ripped tack holes told me she hadn’t—I figured we’d gotten all the clues she’d intended for us and now much more. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The leader ripped the book from Hans’s hands. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my shoulder pad and was about to say something else, but I swung around, ripped out of his grip, and pushed him against the locker. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She rips the package open and peers inside of it for what feels like ten minutes—but when she finally turns back toward me, she’s smiling. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his ripped clothes, picked at one of his scabs, then looked up at her again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He tugged the glove off Zu’s other hand and pulled it over his own, then all but ripped her arm away from the metal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They said he used to rip the heads off goats with his teeth and fillet blue-eyed babies before dawn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Mack wings buffeted her round the head, and a scream of fury cut the indigo air, and suddenly the visions were gone, ripped away, and Dany's gasp turned to horror. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I was looking up at the roof of the Land Cruiser, in the backseat, the upholstery beige and ripped, listen­ing to the ding-ding-ding signaling an open door. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the very top lay the gold threaded pouch that held the ripped page of fortune. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dylan rips open the envelope and pulls out the next clue. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Harry ripped the parcel open and gasped as a magnificent, gleaming broomstick rolled out onto his bedspread. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even the wallpaper had been ripped back in dirty, uneven strips. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear my voice shifting, ripping out of me, like I was fighting for breath. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A tan blur came ripping down the street and onto the pier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His ugly spotted dog stood on his chest, lapping at the blood pulsing from his neck, and every so often ripping a mouthful of flesh out of the dead man's face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sookie manhandled his burger and ripped off about an eighth of a pound like a bear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They cried as they staggered down the road; their wrappers were ripped and their eyes reddened. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sudden wind sweeps in from the desert, shaking the trellis and threatening to rip me from my perch. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It sounded as though the sandbanks were ripping out the hull. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like his arms were being ripped out of their sockets as first one, then the other was jerked behind his back. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Clyde flipped through a magazine so roughly it was amazing the pages didn’t rip out. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sammy followed my example and ripped a chicken leg in two. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Trashman was driven away from the fruit trees, he ripped open the Doberman cage to get at the steaks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She heard her dress rip under her arm. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had discovered that he could make cards float and he could turn marbles into mice and he could rip up a piece of paper and make it whole again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Swiftly he rips open the red-white-and-blue paper wrapping and hands it back. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You are ripping up this family because you think you deserve the prettiest house.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Kaila rips the guest check off the pad and hands it back to the barista by the espresso machine. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

This close, the buckshot rips through his chest, sending him to the ground, his rifle clattering to the floor. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

No blood followed as Gwydion ripped the weapon free; the Cauldron-Born shook himself once, without a grimace, and moved again to the attack. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Heartsick, I ripped the letter down to its last exclamation point and flung it like confetti out into the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she sucked on it, she saw that half the thumbnail was gone, ripped off in her fall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I open the back door, my friendship bracelet gets caught on the latch and a thread rips. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In 1915 the river boiled up in a flash flood, ripping over the shoreline around the factory. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once an old nail ripped my thigh while I was climbing over a fence at my friend Carla’s house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blast didn’t just deafen Alex, it shuddered right through him as if trying to rip out his heart. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Tristran ripped a lace from his jerkin and closed the wax around it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

What would he make of Vincent, thirty-two but much older looking, gaunt, with broken, rotting, and missing teeth, his body dirty, his clothing ripped, a battered hat on his head? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It threw her to the ground, and its claws ripped at her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and thirty miles of wilderness had been burned, ripped apart, or buried under a hundred feet of mud and debris. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yo screams as the hooked beak rips at the man's shirt and chest; the white figure on the lawn is a red sop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In midair she ripped the tapestry clean off the standard in one go. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Me and Cooter had to run near a mile afore we figured we were far ’nough away to really let our laughs rip out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And suddenly the corpse's weight was gone, its fingers ripped from his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her dreams of living life as an artist had been ripped from her that night of her debut when the doubt stared her in the face: Was she truly meant to paint? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The woman sighed again and waved them in, the ripped paper of the window flapping with more vigor than her hand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She tried screaming the girl’s name again, but the words ripped her throat apart. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tito himself was lucky: the bullet had crashed into his chin and ripped through his jaw. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She wishes: Let him rip off his white shirt, push back the two halves of his chest like Superman prying open a door and let the first woman out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And then the hunter suddenly lurched and twisted as he tried to rip the rifle away from his target. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The flesh of his leg had been ripped away, exposing the bone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But happiness had been ripped from their lives. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dark shrapnel ripped through Krios and Hyperion, shredding them as easily as wood in a chipper. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With one smart jerk, the Owner ripped the faded flowered lining down the seam. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the first ten minutes of the drive, I take to ripping my suspension notice into pieces. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The old blue dress she wore was trimmed with the teeth of fox at the collar, beaded halfway around the scraggly, ripped hem. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She bought into Hollywood’s lie, that love is mostly what you get instead of what you give, and what it costs, like the perfumed bottle ripped from her neck and sent flying to the ground. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black Kevlar armor was ripped so that his label just said ant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When they tore down his house, it was like they ripped out half his arteries. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red stitches along the hem of my shift are ripped, the bright yarn limp. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead he sent Phiri, who was so powerful he’d walk from tree to tree and rip them from the earth, as if they were weeds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Well, as hard as I could without feeling like my head was going to explode, or my ribs were going to rip through my chest. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sure, there are a few cranks who think the idea is stupid, or that we ripped it off from the paper clip school in Tennessee. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I raided the supply of Finkle boxes my Mom had brought home before she was fired and I ripped off the box tops. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They ripped up his scrap of paper with his mother’s phone number on it, too, and tossed it to the wind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Since they don’t have any kind of survival instinct it’s no big deal for them to eventually pull themselves free of such an entanglement, ripping off great big swatches of themselves to do so. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

With a huff, Emily ripped the page from her notebook, crumpled it, and dropped it with the other failed attempts littering the cab of the moving van. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Nately ripped offhis hat and earphones in one jubilant sweep and began rocking back and forth happily like a handsome child in a high chair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe her mom was pushing her there, or maybe she’d always been like this, but I was pretty sure if she found me right now she was going to rip my hair out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Right where his belly button should’ve been, his T-shirt ripped open and he grew something like a horn—no, not a horn—the glowing tip of a blade. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She hooked a finger into his cheek and pulled as if trying to rip the side of his face off, but her finger slipped out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He hoisted the bird above his head and gave a long, ripping screech of triumph. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Beatriz and some other girls start to rip the dress apart right before my eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes!” the girl shouted, and in a fit of frustration she ripped the tag off her blouse and threw it away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She ripped the paper out of the typewriter and looked down at the words; they were absolutely not a hallucination. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Keep them. You still have to walk back through the school and—” His eyes drop to my ripped dress, my bare skin, and he jerks them up again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They moved fast toward the shore, like claws ripping through the ocean. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old restrooms were still there, but the toilet had been ripped out of one and a bathtub put in its place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'll rip their names off like a bandage, starting with the ones that would hurt the most. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Here and there an intact building stands without its window glass, the filigreed trails of smoke grown up from its windows like the shadows of ivy that have been ripped away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And she knew it was not ripped off; it was burned off, exploded off by heat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We stumbled to our feet as a great, hot wind ripped through the area, burning our skin and stinging our eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a small rip around the pinhole, like it’d been torn off the wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear it, but I bet Byron’s lips made a sound like a giant piece of paper being ripped in half! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the evil sister managed to grab my shirt and rip it almost into shreds. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He ripped some soft hide from the drakon’s frills and tucked it in his belt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When me and the Wool Pooh were trying to grab it away from each other the back part had gotten ripped. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to rip my face off and replace it with one that’s never been touched by that swine.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema points to her own jeans, ripped at the knees, and her red flannel shirt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I ripped it open and gasped when I saw that he had sent me a photo. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then she made a tight bracelet around Maybeth’s wrist, ripping off the gauze with her teeth and tying it into a knot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a roaring, ripping downpour of water that almost drove them into the ground. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’d ripped her off from Papa then let my imagination hand her a razor blade so she could finish what he’d started. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I had him down and I was just going to rip him up when he squealed out, ‘I can tell you where your friends have gone.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, the razor would either get jammed with hair and need to be cleaned out or catch a chunk of hair and rip it out of my scalp. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the noise of the street just as I’d heard it that night, and I felt a zip line of fear rip right into the pit of my stomach. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One had his stomach ripped open and its contents spilled onto the sand. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The same PSF soldier was back at my curtain again, ripping it aside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He ripped his face off the sticky ropes, and it felt like someone had yanked strips of adhesive tape off his skin. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turner heard them ripping the surface all around him, and felt the diamond spray sprinkle down on him in the moonlight like a benediction. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The important thing is that in two hours all of the rock is gone, and so is the ripped black plastic sheeting underneath. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Dragon stared at the ripped page from the book and Minli looked at the red cord in Dragon’s hand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had to rip the screen and break the pane of one of the Talbot’s windows, which he felt bad about. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

"My thanks," Ned said as he ripped off his riding gloves and tucked them into his belt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she does, my mom points out that Auntie Seema is a fifty-something-year-old woman who wears ripped jeans and paisley bandannas tied around her head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lying on the floor, blood from my split upper lip staining the mauve carpet, pain ripping through my belly, and wondering when I’d be able to breathe again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m good,” I say, ripping my eyes away and forcing them to meet Golly's. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But you know, in Oklahoma, after the hundredth time I rode bus 209 and got cut with something or BrandonGoff ripped my hair out, I understood it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yet I manage to swing my arm around until I rip the tubes out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shot up, ripped away from her reverie, and turned. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I ripped the paper from under her hands. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped the zipper so fast I broke it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Pandemonium had probably taken over the dining hall, and I could only imagine the currents of fear ripping through the teachers, let alone the students. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking I picked up Mong’s file and ripped it into a thousand little pieces, got down on my hands and knees and dug a huge hole by the side of the road. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it crumpled, folded upon itself, and she ripped it from the rock, flinging it outward into the air. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Three or four pages ripped from a Moleskine notebook no longer in Augustus Waters’s house. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But there must be some middle step when people disagree, before they try to rip each other apart. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I could hear her claws ripping at the wood. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

On October 22 gale winds ripped display signs from buildings downtown, tossed houseboats around on Lake Union, and necessitated the rescue of thirty-three people from various storm-tossed pleasure craft on Puget Sound. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He will go to their houses and rip out that filthy page but the shopkeepers say, ’Tis Saturday night, McCaffrey, and getting dark and would you ever take a good running jump for yourself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Using his tusklike teeth, he ripped a long gash in the young bull’s side. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying so hard to get them off that they ripped. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I practically rip the garment bag open as soon as we hang up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Because there was no snow, we pulled a four-wheeler with three sixteen-dog teams, strengthening them and training leaders, Corky watching from the windows as we ripped out of the kennel and into the trail system. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There's a desperation inside me that I want to rip out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All Scoob knows is every time she moves, it sounds like somebody’s ripping a sheet of paper. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He rips at reality and tears aside concealing veils. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the same brutal wind that had ripped the roof thatch and swirled the snow. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ignatius happily pocketed the new bills and ripped one of the packages from George’s arms, saying, “I must see w’hat it is that I’m storing. You’re probably selling goofballs to infants.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith rips a strip off the rag and ties it tightly around my finger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If she moved too fast, it would rip open and her yellow stuffing would spill out, ruining her Disney World sweatshirt. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Hearing Pap’s voice again near ripped me in half. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She spread her arms, appealing to God, then beat on her chest, and finally took hold of her left sleeve and ripped it off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“A hundred chancy things can happen to rip your suit.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An instant later came a crack as loud as thunder, and the bottom of the wagon came ripping loose in an explosion of splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The captain of Dragonsbane had driven her between two quays, ripping out her bottom; her crew poured ashore with the archers and men-at-arms to join the assault on the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Folding the paper in half, he walked quickly to his desk, ripping the sheet into smaller and smaller bits as he went. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The explosion ripped away a side of the hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rips off a portion of the candy bag and hands it to me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

June rips a piece of crust off her pizza. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The poster ripped as Diana yanked it through the narrow opening and finally was able to slap it to the brick wall next to the window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Benny jumps right in and starts ripping open trash bags. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For he was the father, and could do whatever he liked — to remind himself of which, he ripped his soft, gray desk blotter in half and wrote, in large red letters, ACTUALIZE. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the forest, the Town Uncle cried out, and terrible ripping and crunching sounds emerged. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie wrapped ripped pieces of T-shirt and paper towels around the puncture wound to stop the bleeding, then told Diana to look for something they could use for splints. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She ripped the letter in half, ripped the halves in quarters, and let the pieces flutter to the floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The knees of his robes were ripped and bloody, his face scratched; he was unshaven and gray with exhaustion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He climbed up on her head, growling, slashing, ripping, and tearing. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is full of the sound of crinkling and ripping. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Celaena could only gape as the flag was ripped down, and Cain howled his triumph. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Meet me at the masjid," I continued, ripping open the scrubs bag. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She ripped all the words off my communication board and started from scratch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Behind them, more explosions ripped through the forest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He saw his fist tightly gripping the clump of white matted hair he had ripped off the bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rip it open but that’s not what I did. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I ripped off a chunk of my tie-dyed T-shirt, which was already falling apart from all the bum marks, and used it to pick the eyeball off the floor. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But instead, I was ripped from the body I was in. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I ripped the necklace over my head and threw it at the wall. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He ripped the twenty into tiny pieces, made a pile of pieces, and hit sparks into them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hunkered down into my sleeping spot as soon as we finished our meal, before even the first stars ripped through the black. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Over the decades, the balloons had ripped and filled with sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried to get old Marsalla to rip off another one, right while old Thurmer was making his speech, but be wasn't in the right mood. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Along his arms, exposed through the rips in the rubakha’s sleeves, were swirls of slightly darker gold. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Then you are even more foolish than I perceived you to be,” said Mr. Curtain, and spreading his arms and legs with one powerful thrust, he ripped the sashes in two. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said to Rondell as he ripped open his second Quarter Pounder. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Enraged, Anastasia paced around the clearing, beating against tree trunks, ripping up shoots, and hurling them into the air. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What the — ?” Mr. Malfoy ripped the sock off the diary, threw it aside, then looked furiously from the ruined book to Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It looked ripped up and blackened, like burned meat. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment a solid shot passed through the trees above them, tore through the leaves, ripped away a branch, caromed out into the dark over the line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ripped the woman’s hand from my head, slapped her, and pushed her away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cora expected the blanket to be ripped off the next moment and made a portrait of the ensuing mayhem. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A razor-sharp claw had ripped down on an angle across his right eye. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I came back to North Carolina, I’d never seen a mob rip a man limb from limb,” Martin said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She pouts and Andy leaps off the table, ripping my paper, scattering bits of chalk. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I heard them both cursing, until my sweatshirt ripped and the first guy yanked me by my arm and started pulling me behind him as we ran, which I did as fast as I could. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lupin, Tonks...He yearned not to feel....He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sprites had turned the matchbooks into beds and tables, shredded all the paper, and ripped out the centers of the books to nest inside. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dimming walks back to where I sit and rips it off. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When we finally laid down, my fingers felt along the edge of my blanket, looking for the rip that Momma had sewed up with tiny feather stitches. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny, skinnier than Dari even, in a way that looked like his bones might rip right through his skin with one wrong move. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If either man had been standing against the cage, his belly would have been ripped open. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The screams ripped jagged and piercing from the throats of hundreds of kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The monkey has a protrusive, doglike snout with flaring nostrils and exceedingly sharp canine teeth, able to rip flesh as easily as a honed knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no way for evolution to rip out the ancient interior of the brain because of its imperfections and replace it with something of more modern manufacture. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We three stood shivering in the thin New Hampshire morning light, Finny and I in pajamas, Brinker in a blue flannel bathrobe and ripped moccasins. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her words rip through the phone like paper cranes attacking my face until I’m covered in stinging cuts. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I don’t know why anyone would be happy about it, but I thought you were going to rip Cliff’s teeth out the other day.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Even now, a toe stuck out from the ripped front seam. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We’d get into this big charade, with him threatening to rip the thing up and me convincing him not to. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts turned again to the photograph she’d ripped from the book. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I unbutton his shirt and realize the ripped cloth is stiff with blood and sticking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The shoulder strap was torn from the back and hung limp and loose on the side, and there was an extra rip under the armpit. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She always noticed when our threads became tangled or work had to be ripped out and done over. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just, here, just put X’s where they’re sitting,” and he ripped a sheet of paper out of his notebook and drew a square for each desk. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The women listened to the wind as it roared in the chimneys, to the ripping sounds of torn thatch, and to the whimpering of frightened children. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hand to rip it off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She ripped off a piece of pizza and chewed angrily. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners tom to shreds and trampled underfoot. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The hem of my dress was ripped, and my face and neck were sunburned from the morning sun. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Someone, probably a Blue, had ripped the doors from their hinges and sent them flying outside, into what looked like a wasteland of white snow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With a loud ripping noise, his bag split in two. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They went back to ripping the ivy from the walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The shared dream ripped right down the middle and spilled them both out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a rip across the palm of the outer glove on her right hand. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With two sharp shrick-shricks, V ripped the photo out of the book. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A booming explosion of ripping wood and broken glass thundered from somewhere upstairs, shaking the whole house. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His shirt was nearly ripped off his back. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He redoubled his attack, ripping furiously through the underbrush. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They swarm over the Peacekeepers, living and dead, clamp on to their necks with their mouths and rip off the helmeted heads. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We will not rip up this floor till we have had a good search,” announced Mr. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thor ripped off the beast’s head, placed it in his sack, and carried it down to the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so dont ask for sorrow now. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Seeing her on the ground, bleeding, had ripped him open, too. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"The canvas didn't hold. I think it ripped early in the ascent." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried to pull my arms from my body, ripping the arms off a cloth doll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s ripping off masking tape with his teeth. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

That pouting didn’t last long when she ripped up JOY and found a gold compact mirror decked in jewels. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I ripped the white curtain back, joining the two halves of the room while Chubs fussed with the TV, clicking the power button on and off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In a world where people are always being ripped away by the undead plague, I'd thought his words had destroyed my heart. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"But I'm different. You know that. You heard my secret. You heard it. That ain't normal," I explained, my voice now straining, ripping into its own confetti. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Judd Stares down at Shiloh—at his bandage and the shaved place where he’s all stitched up—the rip on his ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has continued to exist, survived her childhood illnesses, the near-drowning in a rip current on Rockaway Beach at the age of twelve, other dramas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She ran to it and nearly ripped its door open. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I could feel the tendons ripping across my shoulder sockets. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Weird Sisters now trooped up onto the stage to wildly enthusiastic applause; they were all extremely hairy and dressed in black robes that had been artfully ripped and torn. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Another blast ripped through the runway behind them, but then they were in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And indeed, Omakayas’s voice trembled slightly as the bear made a gurgling sound deep in her throat and bared her long, curved yellowish teeth, so good at ripping and tearing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I took different scraps of fabric from her grandmother’s old handkerchiefs and ripped up an extra copy I had of the funeral program to make the background. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rip the student center’s glass doors off their hinges and smash them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He swore, grabbed at the sail and started to rip it down. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia dug her fingers into the leather casing and ripped it away. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We had ripped the wire down, and every kid on the block, girls included, could climb onto that roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s an excruciating ripping sensation and warmth runs down my wrist, filling my palm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She threw the knife into the back of the chair again and again, hiding the rips under a fur throw, the resulting cuts and abrasions on her hands under gloves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The horse, which had been contentedly ripping up and masticating a clump of thick grass, stopped then. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She took another section of quilt and stripped the batting off, then ripped the yellow calico into strips and dunked them into the plaster. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Next I'll just rip apart these sock monkeys and pour the stuffing into this tall rubber boot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The first week was all pain, steel claws rip- ping at his shoulder muscles, raking his arms. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d ripped off the sleeves of her T-shirt and used the cloth to wrap her bloody palms, but her fingers were still slippery and weak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A hand clutched at the stirrups, then was ripped away. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It came as a total surprise to him when he was grabbed off the deck chair and first his scarf, and then his jacket and pants, were ripped from his body. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Liam reached over and ripped the paper out of my hand, crumpling it slightly in his fist. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He rips away from me but sits back down, huddling his knees to his chest. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As the space around me diminishes, the piles of “treasure” are ripped away, becoming debris spinning in the contracting circle of water. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I hear a ripping sound, and then Principal Trask is standing there holding my armband. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Just then, the Nightbeast ripped through the forest and came straight at them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“How did you ever find us?” cried Eilonwy, as the dwarf ripped away her bonds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A violent gust rips my hands from the ropes, halting our descent. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I can——” he gasped as a jagged slash of lightning ripped open the sky and the thunder stole his words. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to her would rip the image that is resting in his mind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was a little girl in ruffles, a teenager in ripped jeans, a young woman in bathing suits and wet suits, a young mother holding a baby—holding me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If I felt that it did not, I ripped it out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gave it a kick that ripped its stomach open, leaving it to die in a pool of guts and feathers, flapping its wings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped my eyes away from the monster, which was batting at the Ridge warriors near its head like they were gnats, and looked at Ayanna. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to give it to me? Or should I rip it off your pretty face?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I rip the bedspread off, throwing the pillows across the room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Before Hermione could get farther than “Ron, I’m just as capable—” the tapestry at the top of the staircase on which they stood was ripped open. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then they ransacked the house, ripped open the upholstery on the couch and chairs, and drove off in the new Chevrolet. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chip Cusumano wouldn’t have been at the airport to rip it open.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He tore his bread into neat triangles, not ripped hunks, as Rafik did. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, Susie ripped her apple in half with her bare hands. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I followed her onto the old bridge, where we leaned against the warped railing and looked down at the green-blue water ripping through the pilings. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I ripped it while we were running from that ogress.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hastily they ripped and tore with beak, claw and paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She slid down the muddy bank, clutching at loose roots that ripped away in her hands, and landed in the turgid water, tumbling over and over in the dark and the cold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The force of the blast and the surge had ripped most of them right out of the ground. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She sprang forward and ripped the stack from his hands, her expression so triumphant that not even Finn could mistake it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The lion raked me with its claws, ripping off a chunk of my coat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I rip out the drawings I have made, intending to crumple them up, but he puts his hand quickly on mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell it was the Sentinel because one ripped edge read “do Sentinel May 6, 2.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“They were your brothers. I saw. The wolves had ripped their clothes up, but I could still tell. Their cloaks were black. Like your hands.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She waved some stupid custody paperwork in my face, and said I’ve got to do what she says. Fuchsia rips a piece off the flyer. “That’s what she thinks.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They ripped out of the backstretch and leaned together into the final turn, their strides still rising and falling together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Won’t hurt a bit, Kev, I’ll pull it off clean and fast,” she said before she ripped off so many layers of my forehead along with my eyebrow hair, you could almost see brain matter. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andy ripped up a student’s test paper and threw it in the trash—before the student had even finished the test and turned it in. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed me my coat and I awkwardly fought to get into it without ripping the seams around the shoulders. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve done this,” I said, and ripped off my shirt to show him my back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The copilot fumbles for his sidearm, and Ishtar rips him from his seat and tosses him into the sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pain that rips over me—I’ve never felt a pain like that before. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He ripped the scarf from his cap and shielded his nostrils with it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had her handmaids char the horsemeat black, the dragons ripped at it eagerly, their heads striking like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t they something, especially that Nellie? She really ripped the roof off.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I tried ripping off the bottom of the page and eating it, but she got to it first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sit quietly with folded hands while the world rips their sons, husbands, sisters, loved ones to shreds. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The thought of being stuck with him made her want to rip all the plants out by their roots and throw them into the snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I got home from Brian’s going away party that night, I saw that Noah had ripped it up and scattered it all over my bedroom. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When they ripped me from my family, nobody told me anything. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The wind struck on the moment we were told it would, and ripped the water like a black sheet. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to force myself to move, then I looked down and saw that my pants were ripped open. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Videotapes had been gouged publicly, the tapes ripped out and strung on fence posts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

TaShon looked up at the ceiling, as if it could be ripped off any second. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nate quickly ripped off the coat and silver hat and tossed them into a bush, along with the musket and bayonet. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

At last finding the divide in his curtains, he ripped them back, and at the same moment, Dean Thomas lit his lamp. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ripped off my jacket and went to my bedroom. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When the teacher passed our first homework assignments down the rows, I gave Miles one that had “accidentally” been ripped in half. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The foot of the bridge was a half-sunken enemy galley with Dragonsbane painted on her prow, her bottom ripped out by one of the sunken hulks Tyrion had placed between the quays. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Verin said it wasn’t pretty. Like someone ripped him wide open. He passed the body on his way here.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Unnerved, I stand up, rip the jerky in half and toss a piece to both dogs—but they just sniff at it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each time he did, it felt like someone was ripping a little bit of my soul out. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loaded the filly in the gate, set off the clock alarm, and let her rip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the poorest of the poor had them— soiled, ripped, brimless, covering their faces as they slept in the park, but boaters just the same. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted onto his back, pulling her on top of him as she struggled to rip the Transvice out of his hands. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But in ripping it loose, I lost my balance and only Timothy’s hand prevented me from falling in. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worm Creek was full of these people, people whose words seemed ripped from another reality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first American race, run around Evanston, Illinois, had been held only eight years before, with the winning car ripping along at the dizzying average speed of seven and a half miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The cabdriver said, 'It sounds to me like you two ladies are from out of town,' and I knew right then that he was planning to rip us off." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a moment of determination between them—Hilly trying to escape, Celia holding on, and then a ripping sound cuts through the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Negra hated the church, couldn’t wait to leave her parents’ house and rip up her Pentecostal roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then he hooked his finger and yanked it down, and all the tools ripped off the walls and shot straight for the house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I felt like I'd read through her secret diary and had ripped out a page without meaning to. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pants leg was ripped where one of the spikes had grazed him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I ripped it to pieces and threw it out with the trash. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His cheeks and hands had been cruelly slashed; his bloodstained jacket was half ripped from his shoulders, and he wore no cloak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to the window and nearly ripped the curtains from their hangings as she opened them to the gray mountains and bleakness of Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He kick-starts the bike, revs the throttle, and then they’re ripping down the street, her red hair crackling like a wildfire behind them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Fujiko took her letter from her daughter’s lap and ripped it neatly down the middle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Thomas grabbed other vines, ripping them away from the wall, creating a series of climbing ropes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He ripped open the letter, and shouted, “It’s from Sirius!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as the door closed I began to rip open the Band-Aids right away. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ripped the page out of her notebook and let it drop to the floor. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It would not run out in an hour like the ripped and soggy mystery magazines he sometimes fished out of the garbage bins behind newsstands near Abuelito’s shop. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t even rip the labels off anymore, like she used to. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They were tired of replacing the dishes, glassware, and silverware their teenage customers constantly broke or ripped off. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I think about that very last breath. Sucking for air. Pulling and pulling and getting nothing. I think about my chest muscles ripping and burning, absolutely useless. No air. No nothing. Just black.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He ripped the picture of the man with the bullfrog sandwich from the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great drowned city of New Orleans didn’t come all at once, it came in portions: the sagging backs of shacks ripped open by banyan trees and cypress. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

What she thought was how the city would have been full of people going about their lives before they were burned, flattened, ripped open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I ripped out of her hands, stepping back. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, the March wind blew into the rip in her dress. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped open the package of hot dogs; Cruz ate four, one after another. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

How neatly she did everything, the perfect child; not like Turtle, who ripped off wrappings, impatient to see what was inside. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, without thinking, I rip away the remaining fabric with my bare hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he bent over and began to rip out long handfuls of grass with quick, energetic jerks as though tearing out the hair of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I pulled away, the dog ripped my pants and his cold teeth touched my skin. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How could he have let the guy rip the thing out of his hands like that? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He turned away from Travis and started ripping pages out of it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He could see the green dragon ripping at the smoking carcass of the sheep, his long tail lashing from side to side as he ate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The gull speared her arm, ripped at it, wrenched it loose from its hold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s purple plaid, and it’s ripped right open on the bodice so one of her nipples shows, but she just runs around a-wearing it anyway like she never noticed and neither did anybody. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In his haste, the sword s descending arc missed me, but cut the brambles, so that I could rip myself away before he could take another stroke. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

By now I know there isn't going to be any treasure, but still this is pretty cool, recovering stuff that Blade's gang ripped off from some little old lady or whatever. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cracks ran down his face, fissures opening in the flesh, and he reached up and ripped the mask away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy’s yellow hair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

What would make her madder — to not get the book back at all, or to get it back with a page ripped out? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least rip out his tongue. This man’s lie could destroy us all, Magnificence.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we waited for an answer all I could think of was Conchetta’s ripped dress—the one Helen Kazinski had demolished. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I filled it with your favorite things: Cuddly the koala and your old, ripped script from My Fair Lady. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing steel-toed boots, baggy black work pants, and a Patriots sweatshirt with a rip in the collar. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When I revealed it, each word felt like a hot iron hook being ripped from my flesh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Burt says its part of the esperimint and they will make fo- tastats of the -rip- reports to study them so they will know what is going on in my mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a skit in which the Panther mascot moved about ripping up paper tombstones symbolizing Permian’s fallen opponents. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I quickly ripped the cover off of the magazine as the wind tried to tear it from my hands, and folded it in half, and in half again. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so terrifyingly obvious, she wanted to rip the notebook out of June’s hands. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was concentrating on a letter that he’d apparently opened hastily, judging by the ripped envelope. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the room, I see Stephanie Bowles looking at the ballot real hard, like she wants to rip it up or something. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I just sit there watching Peeta rip out the pages of the victors who were not picked. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bodies were on top of him in an instant, clawing and ripping at his clothes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes ago, this monster nearly ripped Luke’s arm off! So you’ve put Tara on it?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fezzik put the Princess down and ripped the ropes apart that bound her legs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seething, Ivy put the drawing back in her locker before she ripped out a piece of paper from her science folder. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Prince Jones was a one of one, and they had destroyed his body, scorched his shoulders and arms, ripped open his back, mangled lung, kidney, and liver. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even Jay, who usually fooled around, running and ripping, only shuffled his feet along the floor, waiting. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was so happy I ripped off my mask and jumped in the air. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Imprisonment, they say, now creates far more crime than it prevents, by ripping apart fragile social networks, destroying families, and creating a permanent class of unemployables. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many years before my time, a terrible cyclone had ripped its way through the mountains, leaving its scar in the form of fallen timber, twisted and snarled. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched the wind rip at earth and sea like a surging pack of terriers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bare fists like avalanches pummeling him in the face, the arms and hands, ripping away bits of flesh, bringing up bruises and blood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If any of them spotted this swaddled cocoon, they would rip it off and crush the “vermin” within, giving no thought to what it might become. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled his stopwatch out and pumped the trigger as the horse ripped past the marker. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found her in the high seat of die Starks, ripping a capon apart with her fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I say louder, and start ripping at my own shirt, sending the buttons flying. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He ripped the paper from the typewriter, wheeled around in his seat, and handed it to Hazel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When Turner looked over the river, he saw an iron sheet of rain coming toward him, lit up from behind through a rip in the dark purple of the clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Always wanted to try it. Feel like a caveman,” he grunts, as his teeth rip the bag. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As for the picture of the woman, he didn’t know why he’d ripped it out. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Ice puts the ball on the floor, he fakes left, then goes left and leaves Brothers standing in his tracks. He looks away, then goes up and rips the net with a bodacious slam!” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Paintings were ripped from walls, shredded with blades. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Disgusted, I ripped up the paper and tossed it in the trash. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He signed a piece of paper—one of those three-in-one papers—and a guy in dusty blue overalls ripped the pink one from the bottom and gave it to Mr. Charles. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When they tore down his house, it was like they ripped out half his arteries. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then he’s going to rip out these stoves and put in steam heat.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were reckless and tried to run the rapids, their wooden canoes would most likely capsize and get ripped to pieces. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It kept ripping tools, screws, and canvas out of his hands, but finally he constructed a makeshift frame. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I want to make him uncomfortable, to rip him from where he is and put him in his kitchen at one a.m. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He screamed at his father like something had ripped deep inside him. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

From the ground, she watched the roof of the school rise up and rip open in a fountain of debris. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer scrambled a little farther into the duct, ripping more staples, hurriedly yanking extra copper loose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers hurt, and when I looked at them I saw that they were bleeding, too, where they’d got ripped out of the trigger guard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why do they believe they have the right to rip people’s memories, their identities, out of their heads, just because it’s convenient for them? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I ripped a handful of feathers from the chicken and stuffed them in the bag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they pull her up, the guard she punched stomps up to her and rips off her hijab. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A frustrated tear rolls down my face and I rip the pack of tissues open. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The howling wind ripped apart tents, knocked over trees, and sent barrels flying through the air. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z