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The soldiers simply let their weapons fly-several of the bursts and streaks of ammunition hit him when he was in the air, knocking him back.
Thundering bursts of live percussion were balanced against contrasting bouts of movement from a cast of eleven men and women.
The music reflects this, too, with distorted bursts of treated guitar giving the otherwise breezy melody a demented cast.
Firing the various thrusters in brief bursts, Brett slowed the rotating motion of the elevator around its axis.
Both supernovae and the rare but brilliant gamma-ray bursts are cosmic explosions marking the deaths of massive stars.
Having attended last year's event, I can attest to its practically tactile, loving atmosphere punctuated with childlike bursts of humour.
It is slow and deliberate, punctuated with momentary bursts of creativity or rage.
They said they heard bursts of gunfire for at least 12 hours after the clash.
It also happens to be an incredibly catchy number, with an unforgettable bass guitar line, punctuated by bursts of joyous brass.
His speech was almost unintelligible and punctuated with startling bursts of volume.
This allowed for quick bursts to be grabbed by the radiomen aboard the Yunes without allowing much time for a trace.
He uses sonic cues and sudden bursts of noise to suggest and confirm the nature of the story.
The child lay face down, trembling and whimpering in small continuous bursts.
Speaking in rapid, intense bursts, Smith expanded on his sometimes convoluted story.
The grunts of effort, hateful little bursts of sound, are painfully frequent.
I won't even delve into the profanities this elicited in explosive bursts as I read his latest missive taking me to task for this or that.
Participants were told that they would hear a few brief, loud sound bursts.
A rainbow arched over the far wing in between showers of rain and bursts of sunshine.
Sudden bursts of light tend to remind our more fragile ballerinas of Bolshevik gunfire.
He sticks his head in and bursts into speech, jumbling news, soaps and ads!
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Examples from Classical Literature
Loud bursts of laughter interrupted a monologue which was sometimes slow and oratorical, at others rattling and buffoonish.
Thereupon the mob bursts in and inquires what you are doing for the people.
It bursts above the tonsil at the angle between the two folds in the greater number of cases.
This elastic ring is a continuation of the stalk of the theca, which always bursts on the opposite side.
There was a babble of voices from the loudspeaker, punctuated by bursts of static.
Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
He bursts from the grass and sings in burstsplays his own obligato while he goes.
The valedictorian, after his address has been received with bursts of ringing applause.
He did not like his spells of fawning loquacity and bursts of resentfulness.
All understood the nature of a hand-grenade, which bursts like a Nihilist's bomb.
At times there were bursts of laughter in their ranks and shouts of delight at the fall of some Egyptian slinger.
This is done by pulsation of the vacuole, which ultimately bursts, passing fluid waste to the outside.
The pod is elliptical, and the cotton which bursts from it at maturity is snow-white.
A severe type, in which, if left alone, the appendix bursts into the abdominal cavity and death from general peritonitis results.
Its bed is rough above, and it bursts forth from its cavern in dazzling foam, and falls in one sparry sheet to the gulf.
The whole business is poppycock, in my opinion, and the sooner this bubble bursts the better.
In January or February the immortelle sheds its leaves and bursts into a crown of flame-coloured blossom.
Astronomers calculate that this burst packed only about one-hundredth the energy of more-distant bursts.
The sporogonium when nearly mature bursts the calyptra irregularly.
Almost simultaneously the air resounded with staccato bursts.
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