rend the air
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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
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 Lucy S. Furman
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 A. Hume-Griffith
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 H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, and Wisconsin meet in the intrenchments and rend the air with victorious cheers!
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
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