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

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

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

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

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

Now he is at the top; now—hurrah!—how the shouts rend the air, for he has the boy in one arm and the girl in the other, and tells the mother to follow.

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon