Verb (used with object) : The storm rent the ship to pieces. ,a racial problem that is rending the nation. From Dictionary.com.
This may well be called the rending of another veil. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion] Reference
I would just like to add the idea of rending our garments & gnashing our teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage Equality Opponents on Civil Unions, Then and Now] Reference
The heavy felt druggets were about as plastic as blotting paper and I derived little comfort from them until I hit upon the idea of rending them into strips. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind That Found Itself]
I have always appreciated that idea of "rending" the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Anchoress] Reference
A kind of rending and widening process seemed to be going on within her own nature. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Connie] Reference
Fortunately death saved him from the "rending" which is the portion of so many innovators and discoverers. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine] Reference
He now divined why his comrade had gone out twice during the week, and he felt within him a burning grief, a kind of wound, that sense of rending which is caused by treason. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant] Reference
"rending" which is the portion of so many innovators and discoverers. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
But it's an amazingly rending song, and a hit, too. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Usher, "Versus"] Reference
Liberal rending of garments isn't nearly as lucrative. From Wordnik.com. [From Cold War To Steamy Sex] Reference
But a yet more heart-rending loss was in store for him. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
But I believe it's rending the social fabric of the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Southern Baptists Wade Into Immigration Debate] Reference
From without there came a rending, tearing, crashing sound. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference
"The play offers both laughter and the heart-rending pain of living.". From Wordnik.com. [Help! I Need Somebody] Reference
You can almost hear the moaning and rending of garments among liberals. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: America Still Hates Vouchers] Reference
Telling a heart-rending story and telling the whole story aren't always the same thing. From Wordnik.com. ['Born Alive' Baloney] Reference
The rest of this heart-rending story was gathered from the lips of their little protege. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
There was a rending sound of breaking branches, a noise of rolling rocks; then deadly silence. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
This distortion of the judicial role and rending of the political fabric are wholly unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Marriage: Leave It to the Voters] Reference
It was heart-rending to see the women rushing hither and thither, trying to save their few possessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
I am so apt to think that the rending of an outer garment is a token of true penitence and amendment of life. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Jeremiah, of rending the face with painting — a most expressive term for the destruction of beauty by such means. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending their clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
Before Chicken Little could reply something leaped into the midst of the little group and Pete gave a heart-rending squawk. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Then for the first time he drew his hands together with the daggers in them, and in the most heart-rending accents exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
A heart-rending scene followed, last embraces were fervently given and returned, and dismal shrieks penetrated the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
She's been hilarious and heart-rending -- often at the same time -- and perhaps never more so than in "Something's Gotta Give.". From Wordnik.com. [Sweet On Keaton] Reference
And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates, rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
In the late '90s, fleeing North Koreans won local sympathy with their heart-rending tales of repression, famine, even cannibalism. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Neighbors] Reference
It began in the Bronze Age, a rending of the roots of consciousness from the sense of spiritual partnership and divine engagement. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jean Houston: Moving Beyond the Pathology of History: Why We Need a Shift in Human Consciousness] Reference
Prospective donors get heart-rending letters on behalf of starving children, with few or no facts about how the money is distributed. From Wordnik.com. [Lighting The Amen Corner] Reference
The bridge across the chasm that grew between them is made of words, a heart-rending collection of Fran's poetry titled "The Warrior.". From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior Returns] Reference
Thanks to Ali's heart-rending, first-person account, I now have a portrait of the real honest-to-goodness people like us who live in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
"Don't, don't take more than half; they will die before morning if we do!" she whispered, as the eyes of a patient, full of heart-rending reproach, was turned upon their work. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
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