is rending
- present progressive of rend (3rd person singular).
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
These are the questions that rise out of the dust and din of the colossal upheaval which is rending half of the world.
From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
The youthful sergeant is sitting beside the cot within the screen, but his head is bowed down with grief, and a sorrow such as men feel but once in a life-time is rending his heart.
From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Stables, Gordon
“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 Townsend, F. H.
