1.   Everyone knows that schmoozing Michael Jordan before playing him is the best defense against being shown up, against being torn open like a prize-winning envelope.

2.   Near the end of the service, Ross compared a rosebud being torn open before it blossoms to having sex before marriage.

3.   All evidently had suffered painful deaths judging by the wounds -- chests torn open, arms and legs twisted with bones exposed.

4.   Many shops and warehouses were torn open by the storm, leaving them victim to looters who cleaned out several.

5.   The main fuselage, crushed and torn open was barely recognizable in photographs.

6.   Trucks carrying relief supplies were bogged down in monumental traffic jams along highways torn open by quake-produced fissures.

7.   In southern Grozny, every street is littered with rubble and glass, apartment buildings have been torn open by artillery shells, trees are shredded.

8.   A thick milk churn had been torn open like paper.

9.   Some walls have been torn open by shells, others are pockmarked with bullet holes and all the windows have been shattered.