Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

So you get kind of ripped off a little bit, and there's a lot of people who are not too happy about that.

所以，你有点像是被敲诈勒索了，很多人对此很不满。

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President Medvedev arrived in capital city of Makhachkala as two people were killed when an explosion ripped their car apart in a Dagestani village.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The force of the explosion ripped the facades off several houses in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

but I did get kind of fit for the film because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff and I wanted to be true to character because I'm 'method' ."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

"When the skipper on the Ady Gil saw the Shonan Maru moving in to strike him, he put his engines in reverse to get out of the way, which probably saved some of his crew but it ripped the front end of the vessel off and caused catastrophic damage to the Ady Gil,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06