She was ripped apart by the struggle within her between her desires and her conscience.
Perhaps you've seen the famous photo of a python ripped apart by its efforts to ingest a large alligator.
If you've ripped your own CDs or downloaded from somewhere legitimate like Amazon, then you can safely exclude your music folder.
Earthquake survivors return to their homes to collect what they can find, to mourn their losses, and try to find a sense of normalcy in lives that have been ripped apart.
"If I ripped my skin out, you know what would flow out?" he asked.
A Ukrainian officer controls access to villages near Chornobyl after an explosion ripped apart the nuclear power plant in 1986.
Lounging around the seminar table, when Madeleine came into the room from the wintry weather outside, were eight people in black T-shirts and ripped black jeans.
The fire ripped through a 28-story high-rise that was under renovation but occupied by more than 150 residents, many of whom were trapped inside as hundreds of firefighters fought the fire.
But as she kicked, the animal swiped at her leg with its paw and ripped her jeans.
He looks like he's in great agony when he plays the cello, probably because he was dramatically ripped off when he bought it.
The double-life I'd be leading was shattered, a permanent fissure finally ripped through.
Pain au Lait, a milky and soft bread, filled with ripped tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and arugula drizzled with homemade pesto and olive oil.
Cop: I just don't like seeing young kids like you get ripped off.
He was sitting in a plastic chair, dozens of women in ripped dresses singing and dancing around him, little children with runny noses and distended bellies squeezing his hand.
They hear voices and whispers and muffled cries of anguish, maybe the souls of mothers searching through the piles of bones for their infants so cruelly ripped from their arms.
He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas.
He was killed when a gunshot ripped open his belly and his intestines spilled out into his hands.
A nurse ripped open a fresh packet. "They go in the patient, not on the floor," she snapped.
