| tear ligament | 17.51 | Two ligaments were torn. | ||
| tear hole | 3.62 | I tore a hole in my new blouse. | ||
| tear roof | 3.62 | High winds nearly tore the roof off the house. | ||
| tear cartilage | 2.83 | One slip and he could tear a cartilage. | ||
| tear tendon | 2.70 | At first she thought she had torn a tendon, but all her fingers worked. | ||
| tear muscle | 2.63 | The inner muscle was not torn. | ||
| tear clothes | 2.50 | Some tore their clothes. | ||
| tear country | 2.24 | The country was torn by civil war. | ||
| tear family | 1.91 | Families were torn. | ||
| tear building | 1.84 | Eight major buildings had been torn apart. | ||
| tear house | 1.58 | The house was torn down in June. | ||
| tear hair | 1.51 | Others tore their hair out. | ||
| tear hamstring | 1.51 | In the process, Davis tore his hamstring. | ||
| tear heart | 1.38 | It tore her heart to see him go. | ||
| tear page | 1.32 | Someone had torn several pages out of her diary. | ||
| tear part | 1.32 | Then he tore part of the cartilage in his left knee. | ||
| tear body | 1.25 | Her body had been torn apart by wolves. | ||
| tear wall | 1.25 | Ronald Reagan tore down walls. | ||
| tear shirt | 1.05 | His shirt was torn. | ||
| tear paper | 0.99 | But paper can be torn up. |