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
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
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
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
From this, as the noise without became less loud, he glided into Schubert, and so at last ceased when the "all clear" commenced to rend the air.
From Man and Maid by Elinor Glyn
