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Cal stood on the porch with raging emotions tearing at him.

She was tearing at the wrapping of the parcel and wanted to know what was inside it .

The children were screaming and tearing at each other' s hair.

Cows lean and shaggy and looking pinched up by hunger, were greedily tearing at the grass along the ditches.

The child was tearing at the wrapping of the gift box.

Guilt has been tearing at Jeff all day long.

Their mystique is heightened by seamen's legends of huge tentacles reaching up from the ocean bed, and giant suckers tearing at boats.

It is the abandoned creations that are tearing at the Tao's fabric causing it to become ill.

The teeth of Planohybodus, in contrast, were slender and pointed-the sort usually associated with grasping and tearing at flesh.

General mrtomated surface on paper produced adsorbability, high speed when paper-cutting will be tearing at teeth.

I screamed at her, my voice breaking and tearing at the words.

The two animals fought, relentlessly tearing at each other's flesh.

And the crisis is tearing at Europe's political fabric.

The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman.

are suddenly tearing at each other's throats.

or can you stop the beasts from brutally tearing at each other's throat?

The car was tearing at a high speed.

It's always tearing at the seams,

I'm tearing at the seams,