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

I would wring my hands, and rend the air with cries of cui bono.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von

While hearty shouts will rend the air, With, Mind, and give it to him, Charley.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter

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 Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Now he is at the top; now—hurrah!—how the shouts rend the air, for he has the boy in one arm and the girl in the other, and tells the mother to follow.

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon