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

Or an excited crowd, all wearing the little white Gandhi cap, rend the air with shouts of Mahatma Gandhi-ki jai! in honour of some travelling apostle of "Non-co-operation."

From India, Old and New by Chirol, Valentine, Sir

But traitors, imbeciles and intriguers rend the air and the skies with their praises of the great strategy and of the brilliant generalship.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

But this time, though the people were kind and friendly, their faces were gloomy, and every now and then woeful cries would rend the air.

From The Olive Fairy Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)