(v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
(v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
(v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or perhaps we could focus on the relationship of Leia and Solo, now married, and there could be a heart-rendingly poignant study of their elderly existence together, rather like Michael Haneke's Amour , but set in space.
(2) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(3) It reads , in part: “These young people, who have come to learn how to strive against the propagation of stereotypes, from people who only see in immigration a source of illegality, social conflict and violence, can contribute much to show the world a Church, without borders, as Mother of all; a church that extends to the world the culture of solidarity and care for the people and families that are affected many times by heart-rending circumstances.” Carroll said: “It is wonderful to know that he was touched by the letters we wrote him and hopefully those letters will inspire him as he prepares to come to the US.
(4) He flew to Kuala Lumpur for the public service marking the first anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, and was moved by a “heart-rending” speech given by Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother was on the plane and who continues to speak on behalf of the families of missing passengers.
(5) Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis.
(6) On Sunday, Kassig’s parents released in full the heart-rending letter their son wrote to them from captivity.
(7) Dr John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire • Marty Feldman turned the French text on HP sauce ( Letters , 16 January) into a heart-rending chanson.
(8) She has drawn up an illustration of Malcolm's dizzyingly complex 'web of care' and gives a heart-rending account of the challenges they faced with different types of care Malcolm needed.
(9) A method is proposed to induce chemically the incorporation of bacterial agents inot enamel and thus rende this tissue resistant to bacterial colonization.
(10) Binding of antibodies to hemopoietic cells rends their idiotypic determinants major immunogens even in the presence of tolerance to constant region epitopes.
(11) "The Hellenic republic today is in heart-rending turmoil, a humiliating sovereign debt crisis has brought Greece to the brink of absolute ruin.
(12) It is the blistering, heart-rending story of two people finding each other and trying to heal themselves through love.
(13) This report lays bare the heart-rending, prolonged suffering of civilians in Afghanistan, who continue to bear the brunt of the armed conflict and live in insecurity and uncertainty over whether a trip to a bank, a tailoring class, to a court room or a wedding party, may be their last,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
(14) I get these heart-rending letters with some awful stories."
(15) There is the squeezing type contraction in which the network contracts to a single small clump with gradual expulsion of solution material, and the rending type contraction in which the network tears itself into a number of separate pieces.
(16) We are supporting her family at this very difficult time, and will be providing support for friends and colleagues from the constabulary as we come to terms with the loss of an officer in such tragic and heart-rending circumstances.
(17) Numerous technical problems concerning dosage methodologies are encountered especially with angiotensin II determination and must rend cautious when interpreting data.
(18) The existence of different centromere stages in different cell types, rends Parascaris chromosomes a very good model to study centromere organization.
(19) Tumour recurrence rends to be localized in the anterior commissure and sometimes infiltrates into the prelaryngeal area.
(20) Authors advise a strict prevention of acute rend failure and early grafting.
Vend
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
(n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.
(n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(2) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
(3) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
(4) A survey conducted in 1983 revealed that the majority of the student body knew about the vending machine.
(5) The facility stresses self-care, and a bulletin board located near the vending machine provides numerous health education brochures.
(6) Instead of fostering dependency on the nursing staff the vending machine helps the students become self-reliant in reference to assessing their own health needs.
(7) Will the new coin fit parking and vending machines?
(8) As for the sanitation control of vending machines examined, 66 to 74% percent were unsatisfactory.
(9) Under the national rules, which are applied to other state schools, vending machines can only sell healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts and bottles of water.
(10) At posttest 2 in May 1990, 24% sold tobacco over the counter and 93% sold tobacco through vending machines.
(11) However, these differences were not found in vending machine sales.
(12) Like most of the Caribbean, the majority of our population lives on our beautiful coastlines, where they depend on tourism, agriculture, beach-front vending and fishing for their livelihoods.
(13) More polymer notes can be stacked in ATMs than paper notes, and they don't jam vending machines in the same way.
(14) Among a cohort of stores visited by minors at the pretest (n = 104) in June 1988, 71% sold tobacco over the counter and 92% sold tobacco through vending machines.
(15) s-1) were found to be linearly correlated: vMIG = 1.12 + 0.64 vEND (r2 = 0.72; n = 36).
(16) Sent via Guardian Witness By Karthika Gopalakrishnan 22 May 2014, 5:55 Finally spare a thought for the Guardian staff, greeted with this from our vending machines every morning.
(17) They get stuck in the vacuum, my wife slipped on one and fell hard on the tile floor, and I keep unsuccessfully trying to use them in vending machines before realizing they aren't real money.
(18) The Tories would ban the practice of peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children, and also work with headteachers to terminate contracts between schools and vending machine firms.
(19) The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m , it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes.
(20) (Hook complied, but still thinks vending machines could be “a great way forward” for small farmers.)