rend the air
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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
You must rend the air with your cries," Joan instructed her, "not too loud, because we don't want any one to hear.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
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 James Baldwin
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 Charles Carleton Coffin
There are those who would rend the air with shouts, did she pass as a Queen, in some gilded chariot; or clap their hands at the strains of her eloquence, in crowded halls.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
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