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

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

Our gallant tars led by Napier, May bid defiance to the Bear, While hearty shouts will rend the air, With, Mind, and give it to him, Charley.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter

I search; I rend the air with my cries; alone silence responds to me.

From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

Now he is at the top; now—hurrah!—how the shouts rend the air, for he has the boy in one arm and the girl in the other, and tells the mother to follow.

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon