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Sentence Examples This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on. The two foxes met broadside, spiralling inwards anticlockwise to touch whiskers before gliding apart in opposite directions. His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion. On the way to the shore a sea struck the lifeboat broadside and pitched it on its beam ends. The ship then came broadside to, and each sea struck her on the side and threw her down on her beam ends. The tracings turned up in a broadside published by John Taylor through the Nauvoo Neighbor on 24 June. Coming in we shipped a sea on the quarter bow, which caused the boat to fill and turn on her broadside. White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom. Burchfield brought his guns to bear early in the Preface, with a broadside against the very book that he was editing. He furiously pointed at Powell and launched a broadside of obscenities at the Secretary. He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality. Without hesitating La Buse sailed straight in, fired a broadside at the galleon, then boarded it, almost without resistance. To do this they would have to come up alongside our ships leaving them exposed to a broadside from English cannons on our ships. While the Roma may be quick, she only has two Class-Two forward mounts and two on each broadside. Dali responded by printing a broadside, detailing his repudiation of the pavilion. No other property gets taken away after 10 or 20 years, they wrote in a broadside, so why should books? At around 50 yards I had placed a 325-grain.50 AE bullet into that pig standing broadside. He was standing broadside at what I would estimate to be the second-closest shot I have ever made in the field, about 35 yards. Any ill-advised surfer who turns a 9-or 10-foot longboard broadside into the tumble of a small wave knows the incredible power of moving water. I lowered the rifle and saw that he had stopped and was standing broadside looking at us. Show More Sentences Asteroid brightnesses change every few hours as they spin, first brightening when they are broadside to us and fading when end-on. What makes jack crevalle difficult to land is their tendency while resting to turn broadside to the angler. A nice buck stepped out of the bush maybe 100 yards to my left and posed broadside, just like a picture in a magazine. While the two ships were lying almost broadside to each other, gun crews of both sides kept blasting away. Really, it was headed west on the Route 30 Interstate and it negotiated a lane change without signaling and it struck me broadside. A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside. Any cyclist crossing the roundabout from Stockton Lane to Heworth Green is in danger of being hit broadside on. The lighters had not been moored and were drifting away from the beach on a fast current, coming broadside on to the shore. Suddenly, Asedrisean heard a sword clatter to the earth and felt it land broadside on his chest. Thousands of people flocked to the beachfront to watch last night's drama as heavy seas pounded the Oranjeland lying broadside on the beachfront. He turned the animal broadside on to act as an anchor, and started to strip off his clothes. A Thai coastal patrol boat caught broadside on by the waves had been tumbled over and over and finished hundreds of yards inshore. The cachet on this cover, featuring a battleship with cage masts firing a broadside is a Stinemetts design. You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop. Norwegian version seems to be the port, broadside view showing her carrying 3 squaresails and 2 stuns'ls. Their carrier sustained roughly forty broadside plasma hits and continued to move forward. It was a broadside that left permanent scar tissue, but he was nothing if not a pachydermatous survivor. It's a countryman's broadside against misguided townie sentiment, and proof that the turkey industry is far from black-and-White. A canoe caught broadside to big waves and without realistic freeboard can be a big problem especially if the canoe isn't a buoyant. Sadly, publisher Gordon Young spotted the broadside before the magazine went to press, and changed it. Show More Sentences He stands broadside to the road's line of travel, his front feet at the bottom of the cutbank where the road is in a trough sliced through a low hill to ease the grade. We broadside off the backwash from a boulder as big as a house. If they must, they could turn the wagons broadside to the wind and use them for cover, and their felted tents and sleeping sacks would keep them from freezing to death. Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. Remember that the ray will use their width broadside against the tide during the fight and you need the power to drag them back against the tide flow. Weighill stayed at 1000-ft and watched five of the Naval vessels, which were about a mile from the beach and turned broadside on, proceeding to belch flame and destruction. In my experience it seldom happens this way, but suddenly there was a magnificent Kudu bull standing broadside at about 50 yards, with a clear lane through the bush to him. As the waiting travellers watched in frozen horror, it slewed crazily to one side as it carried on towards them, wrecking the parapets and heading broadside for the station. Contemporary journalists described Reagan's address as an anti-Communist broadside, almost wholly ignoring the President's positive agenda of promoting human freedom. The lead doe minced into an opening and paused broadside at 140 yards. Nathan reports that no-one saw them after they'd dispersed into the crowd to distribute the Committee's broadside condemning Reverend Owings's capitalistic dogma. We were southbound on a major interstate, completely oblivious to the fact that, within a matter of seconds, another vehicle nearly would broadside us. Because warships mounted almost all their guns on the broadside, and were vulnerable to fire from ahead or astern, actions were usually fought in line ahead. One tank barely ten meters from Blaine had taken a shot full broadside. Lining up your shot while not giving your foe a chance at your broadside is a challenge, and having the biggest ship doesn't always ensure victory. They printed a broadside in two colors on an early nineteenth-century Columbian handpress in an edition sufficient for all participants in the workshops to have one. Mainly, his moral broadside is delivered against Australian refugee policy, which holds refugees in indeterminate detention, as if they had committed crimes against humanity. I'd already drafted a bitter, bilious, bombastic broadside against the right-wing hacks on the Republican Court. That broadside forced Romney to go a step or two further in defense of his plan than he usually prefers to go. When the Sun, Earth, and Mercury are aligned, the orbital motion appears fast, because the Mercury is seen broadside on, like a vehicle passing an observer at the roadside. Show More Sentences Of course, in theory, the game animal is standing broadside, giving the hunter plenty of time to size it properly, select the correct aiming point, and press the trigger. Animals don't come off assembly lines, nor do they obligingly stand around broadside while the hunter finds a solid rest and manipulates the power ring. Tromp's flagship, Brederode, met Blake's flagship, Triumph, immediately, sending a broadside at mere metres distance. Keep the ports closed, but clear away the port guns, and stand by for a broadside. Another two cable lengths and we have them. These broadside ballads were in some cases newly fabricated but were mostly adaptions of the older verse narratives. The garlands added nothing to the substance of the legend but ensured that it continued after the decline of the single broadside ballad. They each fired a broadside across its bulwarks, killing several of its crew, and forcing its captain to surrender. The original purpose of the broadsheet, or broadside, was for the purpose of posting royal proclamations, acts, and official notices. The ironclads of this time consisted of broadside turret and the new casemate ironclads which protected the revolving turret. When the third hit his ship, wounding some sailors, Tromp replied with a warning broadside from his flagship Brederode. Steve Roud emphasizes that this is not to say that they originated in print, but that the broadside is a reliable and datable source. The broadside pose of this spirited bull intertextually references his many brothers framed in similar broadside positions in innumerable agricultural publications. Blackbeard fired a broadside of swan shot, nails and old iron at Maynard's sloop when it approached the pirate's ship Adventure, but the naval attack pressed ahead. The prevailing tactical orthodoxy at the time involved manoeuvring to approach the enemy fleet in a single line of battle and then engaging broadside in parallel lines. To bring up the propellant in good time to load for the next broadside, many safety doors were kept open that should have been shut to safeguard against flash fires. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increase in production of printed materials including the broadside as well as the competing penny dreadful. Boss Martin O'Neill hammered Balde with a fine of two weeks' wages and slammed him with a verbal broadside for the off-the-ball forearm smash which flattened Fenwick. Captain Chaloner Ogle of the HMS Swallow cornered Bartholomew Roberts in 1722 at Cape Lopez, and a fatal broadside from the Swallow killed the pirate captain instantly. Teach rallied his men and the two groups fought across the deck, which was already slick with blood from those killed or injured by Teach's broadside. Largely a paraphrase of the Gest, it also contains material revealing that the author was familiar with early versions of a number of the Robin Hood broadside ballads. Show More Sentences With the advent of printing came the Robin Hood broadside ballads. Examples from Classical Literature Not a three-decker of the Channel fleet was readier for a broadside than herself. Sharp, shrewd, able and all that, but rough and hard as the broadside of a white-oak plank. In a few moments she struck and jambed, broadside on, across the mass of stone. Eventually I got him out of that broadside position away from us and to the boat. He revved up again and taxied as rapidly as he dared to the houseboat, swung broadside to it, and throttled back. They had put a coir warp ashore, and gave the barque a cant in the current, so as to bring the broadside to bear on the flagstaff. The first broadside from the ship's cannons kills five men on the deck of the xebec, among them the father of Riquer. Besides, by breaking the circuit I can take off the influence when I am firing my own broadside. The boarder glared at her in a curious kind of way, like a broadside of stoniness, but Caroline did not seem to mind it at all. In a moment, as rapid as the flash of the lightning, Suzanne received the broadside of this emotion in her heart. It was time, for just as I jumped the deck burst with a noise like the broadside of a man-of-war. From a broadside in Mr. hailstone's coll., collated with one penes me. There is now a head sea instead of the waves coming broadside on. Bonnet ordered Herriot to stand off to starboard for a broadside. I saw it strike the cable steamship grappler broadside on and capsize her. These caught the mast, while the boat swung round, broadside to the stream, and began to fill with water. They hung all askew, helplessly pinned, some broadside, some upended. The next instant she struck the bateau full on the broadside. He fired his first broadside before his lodger entered the barn. The mate's gun was never fired, nor was the broadside from below. Show More Sentences He sheered off, then turned with a rush, broadside on, with his sail up. We took the rapids broadside on, but the scow was light and very strong. Dunstan's speech is quoted in full by Hone from an old broadside. If one of these big 'Uns gets us broadside on, our number's up! The Varuna fired a broadside into us instead of into the enemy. A pasquinade printed as a broadside and stuck up in New York city. But the worst of it was that with the course I now held we turned our broadside instead of our stern to the HISPANIOLA and offered a target like a barn door. The long, agitated noses of their, big guns, jetting thin transparent flashes and the broadside activity of the quick-firers, were the chief facts in this bird's-eye view. The broadside came from Mayo Councillor Margaret Adams who said she had to endure a recent four-hour journey in a darkened train with little or no dining car facilities. They discovered her proximity, dropped back until she was nearly broadside on to the former battleship, and signalled up the Theodore Roosevelt and the little Monitor. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. The dugout turned broadside the instant that its nose touched the sand, and immediately it rolled over, with all its crew scrambling madly for the shore. Find more words! 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