ASUNDER in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for ASUNDER, such as:
1. Because they were never asunder.
2. But the breezes shred all asunder and give them unaccomplished to the clouds.
3. Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
4. As she sat with the paper folded between her hands, the charred log fell asunder.
5. The frame he knocked asunder with a few blows of the hammer, making the stucco fly.
2. But the breezes shred all asunder and give them unaccomplished to the clouds.
3. Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
4. As she sat with the paper folded between her hands, the charred log fell asunder.
5. The frame he knocked asunder with a few blows of the hammer, making the stucco fly.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ASUNDER
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asunder
ad. into separate parts or pieces; apart
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 Because they were never asunder.
2 The frame he knocked asunder with a few blows of the hammer, making the stucco fly.
3 Happily, however, she was not left to weigh and decide between opposite inclinations and doubtful notions of right; there was no occasion to determine whether she ought to keep Edmund and Mary asunder or not.
4 I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine.
5 He would look for her, he would find her out before the evening were over, and at present, perhaps, it was as well to be asunder.
6 These last words were shot out of him, as though the constraint which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
Context Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
7 Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
8 And on the ground beside her, when Joe picked her up, was a convict's leg-iron which had been filed asunder.
9 Now, Joe, examining this iron with a smith's eye, declared it to have been filed asunder some time ago.
10 We were very much together, I need not say; but occasionally we were asunder for some hours at a time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
11 Rouse thy winds to fury, and overwhelm their sinking vessels, or drive them asunder and strew ocean with their bodies.
12 Straightway the winds upturn the main, and great seas rise; we are tossed asunder over the dreary gulf.
13 They cleave their furrows together, and all the sea is torn asunder by oars and triple-pointed prows.
14 But the breezes shred all asunder and give them unaccomplished to the clouds.
15 As she sat with the paper folded between her hands, the charred log fell asunder.
Example Sentence:
1 A fierce quarrel split the partnership asunder: the two partners finally sundered their connections because their points of view were poles apart.