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

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 Harris, Joel Chandler

"Liars!" rend the air, until a big boy or a master strolls over and quells the riot.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

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

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.