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
We must act now, I tell you, and rend the air no more with idle moaning, or else we perish all!
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
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
You must rend the air with your cries," Joan instructed her, "not too loud, because we don't want any one to hear.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
I search; I rend the air with my cries; alone silence responds to me.
From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
