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How to use the word shred in a Sentence?

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The thing is I would happily shred my IMDB page, my [resume], because I specialized in being bad for decades really, i got better.

Hugh Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t want two strong candidates to shred each other and duke it out in the boxing ring and see the best man standing, hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee.

Kelley Koch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are 676 days from the November 2020 election, there are no ongoing lawsuits with any basis in law or fact that have established even the tiniest shred of malfeasance, inaccuracy or widespread fraud in any aspect of the 2020 election.

David Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lose money for the firm, and I will be understanding ; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.

Warren Buffett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is really important because if you don't have the stage orientated perfectly with the heat shield down, then basically as the reentry process begins, it's like a big ball of plasma [ and ] it'll basically shred the stage.

Rocket Lab

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He’s demonizing both the vaccination program and LGBT+ people without a shred of evidence, by seeking to scare the public into not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, he is fueling the pandemic and putting lives at risk.

Peter Tatchell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There is not a single shred of evidence to anything Trump is claiming, its all lies and its not going to go anywhere with the courts he has lost all but one lawsuit because he has no credible claims.

Mark Ruffalo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Last night, we saw the president of the United States shred the truth right in front of us.  Tear up the truth.

Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There seems to be a giant cover-up among so many of the leading people in the White House, if it was evereven a shred oflogic left to not hear witnessesand review the documents,Mr. Boltons book just erasedit.

Charles Schumer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's a bigoted policy. It has not one shred of evidence behind it, in fact, all the evidence goes the other way. It goes against the basic American notion that it should be about what you can do and not who you are. ... To do this to patriots who are willing to serve -- not only willing, but eager to serve, who have raised their hands and said send me -- weakens our democracy and seriously weakens our military.

Ray Mabus

Found on CNN
5 years ago

MBS believes President Donald Trump has President Donald Trump back. There's not a shred of empirical evidence to suggest that President Donald Trump doesn't.

Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think (she) is doing a fantastic job, one thing that working closely with the prime minister does is cure you completely of any lingering shred of ambition to want to do that task.

David Lidington

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It would be great if there wasn't a shred of Huawei anywhere in the United States.

Marcus Sachs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In society, we have this thing where men are supposed to be macho providers and protectors, while women are the nurturing and caring ones. I'm trying to shred that.

Donte Palmer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The conviction of six journalists on terrorism charges without a shred of credible evidence against them shows that the systematic attempt to silence the media in Turkey continues.

Fotis Filippou

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The tax reform will worsen this situation and ensure that the United States remains the most unequal society in the developed world, the planned dramatic cuts in welfare will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes.

Philip Alston

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Sen. Jon Tester engaged in character assassination against a decorated rear admiral in the United States Navy, and he didn’t have a shred of evidence to back it up.

Raj Shah

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is not one shred of proof against him. It’s all calumny.

Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That is one of a number of allegations that prosecuting authorities have made without a shred of evidence.

Clare Montgomery

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

An abduction was extremely unlikely based on the amount of time, evidence at the scene, and every other shred of evidence there has ever been.

Pat Brown

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is not a rape case, it’s pure and simple extortion by a plaintiff who does not want anyone to be deposed because every lay witness in the case will shred plaintiff’s story.

Derrick Rose

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I shred with a professional company, a truck comes and they do it right in front of me.

Jeffrey Schneider

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's a realization, an awakening, among my generation that the age of oil can't last forever and that we need to pick up the pace to give back to our societies, especially through innovation and technology, to shred this stereotype about us being idle.

Talib Alhinai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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