Example Sentences

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Noted playwright Hudes pens a stunning debut novel that rends conventional notions of motherhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

We find her at a bleak roadside cemetery where her grief rends the air.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society?

From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023

As a result, Alisa makes a terrible choice that rends the family forever.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

And the noble endurance of pain that rends the heart is the source of much that is best worth having in tragedy.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil