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
From this, as the noise without became less loud, he glided into Schubert, and so at last ceased when the "all clear" commenced to rend the air.
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
"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
There are those who would rend the air with shouts, did she pass as a Queen, in some gilded chariot; or clap their hands at the strains of her eloquence, in crowded halls.
From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)
There is little doubt of his popularity, for yells rend the air as he goes by, and hats are tossed up, and men clamber on his carriage.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
