How to Use rend in a Sentence

rend

verb

• They rent the cloth to shreds.
• Metal hooks linked to chains obey Pinhead's commands and rend the flesh from his victims!
  — Steven Thrash, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• Some mighty tornado, or resistless cyclone, may rend its massive blocks asunder and hurl huge fragments to the ground.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
• Every year, the Oscar nomination announcements tend to inspire shrieks of joy, yelps of surprise, and the loud gnashing of teeth and rending of garments.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
• Jakes was, by his own admission, not a great stylist and his plots were crafted for maximum heart-rending drama rather than logical soundness.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Some people have wondered if his departure in early 2016 didn’t somehow rend the fabric of space-time and send us hurtling into a dimension of alternate outcomes.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Such a move would rend a global deal that has been hailed as historic, throwing into question the fate of global climate policy and, diplomats say, the credibility of the United States.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
• While humans use oxygen to rend carbon compounds into carbon dioxide and water, Geobacter can use iron oxides and other metals for the same purpose.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2011
• However, top-end hurricanes, the kind that rend shorelines and change history, almost certainly will.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• Pundits and politicians who rend their garments over the evils of gerrymandering never propose to give back their policy winnings from this period.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• Could the dark energy that’s accelerating the expansion of the universe eventually rend apart spacetime?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• Holley is volcanically self-expressive in his visual art, whether rending tiny wires into human profiles or planning massive statues from uncut granite and gleaming metal.
  — John Lingan, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• The overwhelming majority live outside of city centers and the heart-rending decisions NGOs make every day of which lives to save in an environment of evaporating resources leaves that majority too often unattended.
  — Thomas Sadoski, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• That's what Jonah craves after a particularly painful moment that Snyder delivers with rending clarity.
  — Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 10 July 2017
• Although there are scenes of shocking cruelty, mostly involving Law’s character, Ritchie always pulls his camera away at the bloodiest moments, rending the PG-13 barbarity more theoretical.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, The Denver Post, 12 May 2017
• During highly sensationalized and publicized court cases, terms to describe abusive behavior often rend online.
  — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024