are rending
- present progressive of rend.
Example Sentences
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It’s not clear to me from your letter if your parents are rending their garments directly to your son or just blowing up your phone about their supposed failures of stewardship and religious duty.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2018
They are rending garments and gnashing teeth over at Sports Illustrated, which on the eve of the season picked Baltimore to win the Super Bowl.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2015
But, though the two Ayatullahs patched up their quarrel, the deep divisions that are rending the nation remained.
From Time Magazine Archive
Uncle! uncle! do you not know that all the furies of hell are rending my breast.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
In this hideous struggle, with which the conflicting peoples are rending Europe, let us at least preserve our flag, and rally round that.
From Above the Battle by Rolland, Romain
