rend
verb (used with object)
to separate into parts with force or violence.
is rending
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present progressiveof rend (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is the worst of times, as it seems much of the fabric that has held together the interests and individuals that have made such prosperity possible is rending at the seams.
From US News ● Jun. 27, 2016
Why, when parsing a point, do its hosts sound like a hernia is rending their groin?
From Salon ● May 31, 2015
“Jane, be still; don’t struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.”
From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend
Yes! they do us great injustice, Never can be comprehending All the deep and morbid sorrow Which a poor cat's heart is rending.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
I know not how it is with you, but mental disquiet is rending me.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
