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

Let strains harmonious rend the air; For see, the godlike hero's here!

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

We must act now, I tell you, and rend the air no more with idle moaning, or else we perish all!

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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)