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

You must rend the air with your cries," Joan instructed her, "not too loud, because we don't want any one to hear.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

I search; I rend the air with my cries; alone silence responds to me.

From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

I would wring my hands, and rend the air with cries of cui bono.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von

While hearty shouts will rend the air, With, Mind, and give it to him, Charley.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter