(1) The gryphons swooped on her soldiers and began to rend them apart.

(2) Before you rend any fabric, hear me out, please.

(3) Snapping teeth that would rend human flesh to shreds

(4) There are plenty of factual accounts in Bringing them Home which rend the heart.

(5) Unfortunately, there's not enough violence here to fully rend and flay, just enough to bruise.

(6) He knew from experience that the whip could rip flesh from bone, and rend good armor into so much scrap metal.

(7) Blind resistance to that rethinking will only further rend the social fabric.

(8) And the horde charged once more, their nerves steeled and their war-cries resonating, ready to shred, rend and tear apart any foe, be it human or not.

(9) These missiles locked onto their targets and streaked unerringly through space, determined to rend metal and flesh.

(10) They were pawns, used to play a game that would otherwise rend the universe apart.

(11) Our flag is no piece of sheeting for authoritarians to hide behind as they rend our hard-won liberties in the name of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510protectingu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb us from a dangerous world.

(12) When the pain in his side bent him almost double and sweat stung his eyes, blurring his sight, still he flung himself forward, his breath a roar in his ears, his heart feeling as though it would rend itself in his chest.

(13) She had the scars to prove that they had learned the hard way how easily a dragon's claws could rend human flesh.

(14) That also rends into tatters the shreds of my emotionless image, wouldn't you say?

(15) Within two years the empire was rent by conflicts between the powerful successor generals, whose ambitions had only been repressed by their devotion to the authority of Alexander.

(16) But nothing prepared me for the aggregate loss, when each problem list and interesting case turns out to be your neighbor and friend, and every final parting rends you where the heart resides.

(17) But as we limp into the 21st century, that gender gap is rending the fabric of the entire African-American community.