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 traitors, imbeciles and intriguers rend the air and the skies with their praises of the great strategy and of the brilliant generalship.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

There is little doubt of his popularity, for yells rend the air as he goes by, and hats are tossed up, and men clamber on his carriage.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

Hence, we shall wait, and mark his future course, ere we rend the air with shouts that he is born at last.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

Man lives in the contentious crowd; he struggles for the palm that thousands may award, and far-speeding renown may rend the air with the loud huzza of praise.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton