rend the air
Example Sentences
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Some are stunned into silence, others burst out in self-destructive rage; two gins rend the air with mourning wails that continue into the night.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shouts of "Vive l'Empereur!" rend the air, they echo down the narrow valley, re-echo from hill to hill and reverberate upon the pine-clad heights of Taillefer.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
After he has landed and informed the assembly of his victory over the Turks, shouts of joy and exultation rend the air.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.
Or an excited crowd, all wearing the little white Gandhi cap, rend the air with shouts of Mahatma Gandhi-ki jai! in honour of some travelling apostle of "Non-co-operation."
From India, Old and New by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
But traitors, imbeciles and intriguers rend the air and the skies with their praises of the great strategy and of the brilliant generalship.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
