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 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 storm does not break, but the bending tree-tops crone, and toads innumerable rend the air with their screaming whistles.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
At daybreak this morning, heavy detonations began to rend the air, and we knew that the road-blasting had begun.
From Mothering on Perilous by Furman, Lucy S.
After he has landed and informed the assembly of his victory over the Turks, shouts of joy and exultation rend the air.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.
