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
The hound stalks on before them; the peacocks wake up and rend the air with a discordant scream.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
The sound of the weird wailing of some hundred women is perfectly indescribable, always ending up with a piercing shriek which seems to rend the air and freeze one’s blood.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.
The harsh hootings of the bird-lizards had ceased to rend the air as the dark wings hurtled away to seek some remoter or less disturbed hunting-ground.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
Let strains harmonious rend the air; For see, the godlike hero's here!
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
