John is convinced the horse was shot before the lion tore him open.

Spectators could not believe their eyes when they saw Christians smiling and singing hymns as the lion tore them to pieces.

On the third day, the brothers came, but the lions tore them to pieces.

Then the ten thousand mighty lions joined the fray and tore in pieces man and horse.

More precisely, it is about lions' tearing at a carcass with the biggest pieces going to the mightiest, not the neediest.

The lion was tearing through the underbrush, searching for the author of these new sounds.

Perhaps he, too, had been waiting the day when the lion would tear free of his chains.

Do not move by so much as a pace or the lions will tear you to bits.

The lion tore a chunk of meat off the dead zebra, and swallowed it whole.

Finally Corbell said, "Real lions would have torn us up.