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

There was no mistake, for at their approach did not a resounding cock-a-doodle-do-oo-oo rend the air like the sound of a trumpet?

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules

"Liars!" rend the air, until a big boy or a master strolls over and quells the riot.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

Man lives in the contentious crowd; he struggles for the palm that thousands may award, and far-speeding renown may rend the air with the loud huzza of praise.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

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