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
Let strains harmonious rend the air; For see, the godlike hero's here!
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
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.
The many17 rend the air with loud applause; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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.
