RIP in a Sentence

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For RIP, below is one of 56 sentences:
I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rip
 v.  tear or be torn violently, pull apart
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
2  We just set there and watched him rip and tear around till he drownded.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
3  You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.
4  He was idly beating the branches as he lounged along: or he stooped viciously to rip the moss from the trees with his stick.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5  'You'll rip her inside out,' murmured the keeper.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
7  Resolutely she took it by the hem and jerked, put it in her mouth and gnawed, until finally the material gave with a rip and tore the length.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She began to rip the spangles from the frame, listening absently to the buzz of talk which rose and fell with the coming and going of Miss Haines's active figure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  He was going to rip up the canvas.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
11  And all the while their batteries poured shells into Atlanta, killing people in their homes, ripping roofs off buildings, tearing huge craters in the streets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Upstairs they were ripping open mattresses and feather beds until the air in the hall was thick with feathers that floated softly down on her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  There was the ripping sound of musketry and the breaking crash of the artillery.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  While I was cooking supper the old man took a swig or two and got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
15  I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  He had seen the rip in the book.
2  Next day, Miss Stone decided to sew up the rip.
3  The ecological disaster is partly a product of letting everything rip in order to increase production.
4  Its springtime for President Bill Clinton as he watches his Republican challengers rip each other to shreds.
5  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more.
6  The candidates rip into their opponents each other mercilessly.
7  Then use a combination square to determine the point where the rip line meets the crosscut line.
8  It has eight lashing arms and two slashing tentacles growing straight out of its head and it's got serrated suckers that can latch on to the slimiest of prey and it's got a parrot beak that can rip flesh.
9  The Consumer Federation claims banks are ripping you off by not passing along savings on interest rates.
10  They ended up ripping down perimeter fencing and tussling with the security staff.
11  On the southern end of Sakhalin island, giant bulldozers and earth moving equipment are ripping up the ground.
12  The agency really ripped us off.
13  The clothes were ripped to shreds and covered in blood.
14  Bob's tickets cost much less than ours - I think we've been ripped off.
15  The nail ripped a hole in my jacket.