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 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 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
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 Coffin, Charles Carleton
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 McBeath, Neil
I search; I rend the air with my cries; alone silence responds to me.
From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
