Sentence examples for riven through from inspiring English sources

And the next land he found, it was bare and and hilly ground,/ Where once the bread-corn grew,/ But the fields were cankered and the water was defiled,/ And the trees were riven through,/ And there was neither paved highway,/ Nor secret path in the wood,/ But had borne its weight of the broken clay/ And darkened 'neath the blood.

Songs like 'This Apparatus Must be Unearthed' and 'Drunkship Of Lanterns' are rooted in the rage and discipline of American post-hardcore, but riven through with wild, cosmic whorls of guitar and effects, treated vocals, free jazz-style improvisations, and constantly changing eddies of sound.

As Rose and Harold journey through a turbulent country riven with race hatred and riots, they pick up Dr. Wheeler's trail.

It was a victory that came from nowhere, the work of a squad riven by internal division that had scraped through the pool stages.

Although the quality of the fleet's ships was high, the fleet hierarchy was riven by the same crises that had torn through France since the Revolution five years earlier.

The SNP had been through a torrid time in the 1980s, riven by internal disputes and election setbacks.

The basin was a twisted mass of menacing black rock, riven by canals of bright orange lava pushing up through the splintered surface.

His characters are deluded (even delusional), their overheated psyches riven by the very particular fear that comes from living through decades of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.