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
I search; I rend the air with my cries; alone silence responds to me.
From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
Songs and shouts rend the air, and unwonted gladness reigns.
From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.
There are those who would rend the air with shouts, did she pass as a Queen, in some gilded chariot; or clap their hands at the strains of her eloquence, in crowded halls.
From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)
From this, as the noise without became less loud, he glided into Schubert, and so at last ceased when the "all clear" commenced to rend the air.
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
