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 many17 rend the air with loud applause; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
Songs and shouts rend the air, and unwonted gladness reigns.
From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.
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
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.
