1.   High winds nearly tore the roof off the house.

2.   The front of the house was a litter of branches that the wind had torn from the trees the night before.

3.   ...the wind tearing through gaps in the window frames.

4.   The wind tore at the land.

5.   Across the country, the winds tore up roof shingles, knocked down chimneys and devastated forests.

6.   Most of the vegetation on the lower Keys was thrashed, and the winds tore roofs and stripped siding from the walls of dozens of homes.

7.   Not so fortunate were seven scarlet ibises, who died of exposure at the San Francisco Zoo when high winds tore the roof off their aviary.

8.   Out where the cold wind tears the green eyeshade clean off a sportswriter.

9.   Reflections of sunlit coral ghosted through the clear trough, and the morning wind tore a crackle of urgent spray from the crest.

10.   Roberts and his wife, Arvella, lay still in their upstairs bedroom when the wind tore apart their home in Montgomery.