Perhaps death came like that, a rending and tearing from this physical world.

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

Could they change so much upon the rending of a maidenhead?

A rending, splintering sound made them all look back at the house.

There was a rending and tearing all around, as if the very structure of the building could no longer stand to hold together.

It would take a few seconds before the blood appeared and he felt the rending of tissue.

Believe me or not, I say it was outrageously heart- rending.

Up above, they could hear the rending and breaking of tree limbs.

The story has turned into a rending and ingenious piece of theater.

With a rending and splintering of wood it gave way.

Then came a sound like the rending of cloth.

He could hear the rending of metal as vehicles collided.

I thought that all was over, but presently there came a rending, crashing noise.

From behind him came the rending, grinding crash of a tree falling over.

Then there came a shudder and a terrible rending of metal.

When he woke, it was to hear a rending, grinding crash.

A rending of flesh that haunted him with its terrible ambiguity.

My audio detectors pick up the rending of metal even in the thin air.

A roar like the rending of heaven exploded across the storm front.

So she makes a heart rending decision played out in the last 10 minutes of the film to ensure that this is not going to happen.

She shuddered at the prospect of a public rending.

Porthos felt the earth beneath his feet shaken by this long rending.

The darkness, like the rending of the veil, is symbolical.

There was a rending of armor and a ground-shaking crash.

"The rending was that deep that they would choke on it."

They would be waiting to rend him if he did.

The sound rends the still air, and the batter is out.

An English girl to turn and rend her native country like that!

Even now forces build to rend the very soil itself!

I was meant to rend the world for my mistress!

And now they will rend your flesh, murder you before my eyes!

The tiger was on the back of the deer and rending.

They would find him and rend the flesh from his bones.

I came to you when the demons were rending your soul.

Acting on Card's analysis, if wrong, could rend the country.

To change the tomato is to rend the social fabric.

But Ben could still hear its waves, rending themselves on rock.

Now Covenant heard the same rending everywhere, near and far.

David, he was quite sure, knew nothing but the need for murder, rending, and terror.

You were rending my face bloody as well with your nails.

They would rend their enemies by instinct alone when the time came.

No one shall rend them from me but with life."

Well, I will go so far as to rend the veil of one mystery.

Fireworks then rend the sky and the party continues into the night.

With a crunch of rending wood, the chair gave way.

Sam held up a hand before she could rhetorically rend him.

He wanted to break things, to smash, to rend and tear.

She was already in the air and soon she would rend them.

Rosie heard a tree go over with a long, rending crash.

It was enough to make a sensible dragon want to rend things.