Use "rending" in a sentence

1. Used for tearing and rending their prey, she guessed

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2. But there is no sound of squealing tyres, no rending of metal

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3. Some were weeping openly, others were rending their hair, literally tearing it out in clumps while still others were biting their own tongues, blood flowing freely from their mouths

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4. Somehow, his reconstruction was more painful than his rending

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5. it was nothing compared to the rending jolt she felt when Trumpet thrust his member into her

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6. Ship timbers scraped stone with a rending crunch, but Father managed to avoid disaster

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7. The person started wailing and I shit myself because the sound was not only scary but heart rending as well then a nurse came along and gave him something for the pain and he went quite

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8. Muti, muti, hilfe bitte, muti hilfe Ernst”, it was heart rending to listen to and it just went on

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9. and again, piercing My side without ceasing to the rending of My heart?!

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10. 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver

11. each note more heart rending than the last

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12. heard, then again the rending screaming of metal as another train

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13. rending long tears in them

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14. rending contrast between the moment before and the moment after the

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15. Above the crunch of the rending mail, she distinctly heard the snap of the shoulder-bone

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16. 'Dead, with the others! It was devils fell upon us! They were rending us to pieces before we could awake—a dozen good rovers died in their sleep

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17. With a rending shudder the portal buckled inward

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18. He reeled drunkenly, and then, with a splintering of bones, a rending of flesh and muscle and a snapping of mail-links, his breast burst outward with a shower of blood, and through the ghastly aperture something red and dripping shot through the air into the Master's outstretched hand, as a bit of steel leaps to the magnet

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19. Groping in a rolling cloud that blinded him, Conan felt a rending sensation of dislocation—and then room and mist and brown man were gone together

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20. They had learned that it was fatal to divide their forces against such an incarnation of clawing, rending fury

21. Instantly there was a rending crash and the jutting ledge gave way, precipitating the pirate back into the court

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22. His war cry rose above the medley of the carnage, and the bewildered but furious Zingarans took fresh heart and redoubled their strokes, until the rending of flesh and the crunching of bone beneath the swords almost drowned the howls of pain and wrath

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23. From beyond the thicket came the noisy crunching of bones and the loud rending of flesh, together with the grinding, slobbering sounds of a horrible feast

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24. With a snapping and rending of bushes and saplings the monster came hurtling through the thickets, and they fled up the rock before him like leaves blown before a wind

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25. With a snapping of bolts and a rending crash of wood, the door splintered and burst inward

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26. The Rending of the Veil

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27. 12 When the high priest heard Jesus utter these words, he was exceedingly angry, and rending his outer garments, he exclaimed: "What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now have you all heard this man's blasphemy

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28. Sailors leaping down into the waist to grapple or smite at the naked white giant hewing like one possessed at the shackles, found themselves dragged down by the hands of slaves yet unfreed, while others, their broken chains whipping and snapping about their limbs, came up out of the waist like a blind, black torrent, screaming like fiends, smiting with broken oars and pieces of iron, tearing and rending with talons and teeth

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29. The silent rending of a white satin glove

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30. heart rending message that can ever cross the sea: ‘Mayday Mayday

31. There was a rending sound, as the ship struck rock, an unwelcome grinding accompaniment to the melodic chorus of the dancing temptresses ahead of them

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32. At the thought of this four-letter word, Bob stopped, arms poised for rending, teeth mid-gnash

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33. But here he was combatting a legion of goons bent upon rending him to pieces

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34. What right had this one, only because my apparel was scanty, to smile at me and say _prachtvoll_? I was so much startled by the unexpected exclamation from a person who had the minute before been rending the air with her laments, that my foot slipped on the wet planks, I just heard the bathing woman advising me to take care, just had time to comment to myself on the foolishness of such advice to one already hurling through space, and then came a shock of all-engulfing coldness and wetness and suffocation, and the next moment there I was gasping and spluttering exactly as the other bath-guest had gasped and spluttered, but with this difference, that she had clutched the rope and shrieked, and I, with all the convulsive energy of panic, was shrieking and clutching the bath-guest

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35. She had brought violent discord into a hitherto peaceful vicarage, thwarted the hopes of a mother, been the cause of a bitter quarrel between her and her son, brought out by her mysteriousness a prying tendency in the son that might have gone on sleeping for ever, entirely upset the amiable Tussie's life by rending him asunder with a love as strong as it was necessarily hopeless, made his mother anxious and unhappy, and, what was perhaps the greatest achievement of all, actually succeeded in making that mother cry

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36. the rending of garments

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37. And that he, bleeding as he was himself from the lacerations of the violent rending asunder from his wife to whom he had been, as he had told her, devoted, that he should--oh no, it wasn't possible; and she hung her head, shocked at her thoughts

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38. It was such a one who had ensnared him in years past and led him to the rending fields at Marshwren and elsewhere

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39. The parting was heart rending beyond description or conception but Rania

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40. Their claws tried to grab at him but he twisted from one encounter to the next, rending

41. In the Gospels they appear as causing deafness, dumbness, madness, epilepsy, and exhibitions of violence equal to the rending of bands of iron

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42. It chronicles Craig's awakening to issues of injustice and poverty as well as the incredible diversity and heart rending beauty of the world

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43. I had felt for some time that I was turning her soul upside down and rending her heart, and--and the more I was convinced of it, the more eagerly I desired to gain my object as quickly and as effectually as possible

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44. Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he

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45. that tract giving way to such fierce tearing and rending, he pierced

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46. in, its blind rage soon made way for the rest, piercing, rending, and

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47. Then the wall opposite me flashed into a golden yellow and dissolved with a rending thunder that hammered my brain into a pulp

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48. Butting then and goring all before him, and mad and wild like an owerdriven steer, he ploughs up the tender furrow all insensible to Louisa's complaints; nothing can stop, nothing can keep out a fury like his: with which, having once got its head in, its blind rage soon made way for the rest, piercing, rending, and breaking open all obstruction

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49. Another rending, tearing crash from above announced the destruction of the main topmast

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50. We had turned away from the edge, and had penetrated about fifty yards of close brushwood, when there came a frightful rending crash from behind us

51. And then suddenly, with a crashing and a rending, a thudding of giant feet and a panting of monster lungs the beast was upon me once more

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52. "Your excellency!" she wailed suddenly with a heart‐ rending scream and a flood of tears, "protect the orphans! You have been their father's guest

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53. The facts supporting this theory he’d spent the weekend dredging up one by one: the graffiti on the tile of the 81st Street station, the exit gate like a barber’s jar of combs, the rending sound it had made as he pushed through it

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54. A noise of rending and crashing came dully through the ponderous stone

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55. The trees, swung by strong arms, smote the timbers with a rending

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56. But there was a rending, tearing noise of work going on inside

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57. of horses wild with rage and fear, there came a rending screech, shivering,

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58. his ears, the crash of the feet and the rending clamour of the Orcs before

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59. if by rending claws and smeared with blood; slaver dripped from its

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60. came dropping like a bolt a winged shape, rending the clouds with a ghastly

61. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgyl the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom

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62. He plunged about in their very midst, tearing, rending,

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63. He could not tell them what we say now: ‘Why fight, why block the road, losing our own men and inhumanly slaughtering unfortunate wretches? What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyazma without any battle?’ But drawing from his aged wisdom what they could understand, he told them of the golden bridge, and they laughed at and slandered him, flinging themselves on, rending and exulting over the dying beast

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64. A spiritual wound produced by a rending of the spiritual body is like a physical wound and, strange as it may seem, just as a deep wound may heal and its edges join, physical and spiritual wounds alike can yet heal completely only as the result of a vital force from within

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65. Then there was a fierce, rending squeal right on top of me, and a heavy blow on my right arm so that I staggered and nearly fell, and I was in the middle of Pall Mall with a taxi broadside on across the road beside me

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66. ’ Like a murder of crows or a rending of horrors

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67. bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation

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68. With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed the light of a lantern

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69. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts

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70. The two rolled growling upon the moss, tearing and rending one another in a frightful manner, but it was soon over and my preserver stood with lowered head above the throat of the dead thing which would have killed me

71. Descended from a race of meat eaters, never in his life, he thought, had he once satisfied his appetite for animal food; and so now his agile little body wormed its way far into the mass of struggling, rending apes in an endeavor to obtain a share which his strength would have been unequal to the task of winning for him

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72. She should have been safe now but there was a rending, tearing sound, the branch broke and precipitated her full upon the head of Tublat, knocking him to the ground

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73. Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring bison herds are as present as to the deserted wild foal of the prairies, which this instant they may be trampling into dust

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74. I had felt for some time that I was turning her soul upside down and rending her heart, and—and the more I was convinced of it, the more eagerly I desired to gain my object as quickly and as effectually as possible

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75. He could not tell them what we say now: “Why fight, why block the road, losing our own men and inhumanly slaughtering unfortunate wretches? What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyázma without any battle?” But drawing from his aged wisdom what they could understand, he told them of the golden bridge, and they laughed at and slandered him, flinging themselves on, rending and exulting over the dying beast

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76. In the intermediate period, what aspect does a Union, thus destitute of cement, present? Is it that of a nation keen to discern, and strong to resist, violations of its sovereignty? It has rather the appearance of a casual collection of semi-barbarous clans, with the forms of civilization, and with the rude and rending passions of the savage state

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