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
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
The reports of terrific explosions rend the air, you grip frantically at the soft mud to prevent yourself being hurled through space.
From Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by Neil McBeath
The storm does not break, but the bending tree-tops crone, and toads innumerable rend the air with their screaming whistles.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
There would be a period of silence, and then, suddenly, loud shouts of laughter would rend the air.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
