How to Use "torn" with Example Sentences

1. Now all the decorations have been torn down , showing the bare black boards behind them .
2. They wore their hair long , their feet bare , their cloaks torn .
3. Media businesses are not being torn apart in a fight-to-the-death between darwinian rationalists and authoritarian creationists .
4. It is possible that the card has already been torn beyond repair by the bungled policy in iraq .
5. 1 Fresh basil leaf , torn into small pieces ( or 1 / 8 tsp . Dried basil )