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How to use the word SHREDS in a Sentence?

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At the end of the day, anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed or ripped to shreds. I alone will never retreat.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can't even describe it, I don't know where to start and I'm losing my sanity, all the buildings around us were totally destroyed yesterday, we saw shreds everywhere. I can still see them until now, I can still hear women screaming and men crying loudly.

Tariq Al Hillo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Anacharsis

added by Normando
3 years ago

I want you all to be interviewed for it.I want you to tear me to shreds with no fear of retribution. Let’s have fun.

Dee Snider

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Give the information to the authorities so that they can help find the person who has destroyed us, emotionally, mentally, it feels like somebody has ripped us to shreds.

Shakera Symes

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It feels like somebody has ripped us to shreds. i ’m scared to go to the corner store.

Isaiah Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal.

Texas Sen. Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Can a government become a signatory to an international agreement and then the subsequent government tear it to shreds? This is something that only the likes of Saddam Hussein would do, saddam Hussein, previous to attacking Iran in 1980, did sign an agreement with Iran and then tore it to shreds himself and then attacked Iran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds.

Robert Doggart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It grasps them with its talons and then uses its razor-sharp beak to rip its victims to shreds, to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.

Warren Groen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When I read and heard about people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing, i could not in good conscience continue to serve.

Andre Shepherd

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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