1.   The rain pounded so hard it sounded like tearing fabric.

2.   Landlocked Uganda is mostly agricultural and very poor, its fabric torn apart first by the civil war and now by the AIDS epidemic.

3.   The fabric has been torn over the years, but the fabric survives.

4.   The social fabric is torn apart.

5.   The very social fabric is torn, yet whether Van Wetter is really innocent remains unclear.

6.   This tears the fabric of the family, because it puts parents and children on a different track.

7.   Walk inside any major department store, and the troubles that have torn the fabric of the fashion industry are evident.