A bomb exploded harmlessly a thousand yards away, throwing up a plume of soft sand.
Some of the blasts were deflected harmlessly off the shielded domed generator shell.
He took precise aim with a lob from the corner of the box but it refused to curl in and drifted harmlessly across goal.
The emphasis in Tai Chi is to channelize the potentially destructive energy in such a manner so that it will dissipate the energy harmlessly.
The midfielder had an abundance of options but chose to throw the ball harmlessly into touch.
Dylan offered to go get Adie's coffee, a direct product of the harmlessly flirtatious smile she shot him as she sat down.
She figured out a way that pillbugs could harmlessly coexist with a garden's plants.
An arrow streaked through the air and landed harmlessly in the road on the other side.
Concerned about animal welfare, she wants to remove the mouse as harmlessly as possible.
The bomb exploded harmlessly 20 kilometers above the ground, leaving a train of smoke that remained visible for an hour.
The first pellet whistled past my ear and bounced harmlessly off the curtains.
Our agenda is simply to delight hundreds of millions of children, harmlessly purveying the wholesome, uplifting values of community decency.
At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
Why feel so guilty about a feeling that remains a mere fancy, harmlessly stashed away in your brain?
A few people gasped as it bounced away harmlessly, sending ripples throughout the force field that was protecting them.
It was an innocent enough question, harmlessly delivered, but she knew that there had to be more behind it.
Various germs such as fungi and bacteria live harmlessly on the skin and inside the body.
I was sitting up in the Professor's study harmlessly emailing about the place when there was a tremendous outbreak of scuttering from downstairs.
A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery.
It fell short of the intended target and bounced harmlessly off the table in front of me.
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We decide on a scorpion fish, a rich ruby red, its spiky fins laid harmlessly by its side, its wide round eye staring up at us dolefully.
His second.45 slug missed harmlessly, but it didn't matter, because the first had found the gunman's thorax and dropped him cold.
Satyrs and nymphs gambol about him harmlessly, and Silenus is a cheerful old soak.
Mortar rounds, bullets, and antitank rockets all exploded harmlessly on the armored sides of the ship.
Most of them are epiphytes, growing with their roots not in soil but instead harmlessly clasping tree branches high in the forest canopy.
When every other question has been batted harmlessly away, an interviewer can always rely on the killer question.
Highly inflammable methane gas, pumped out harmlessly when mines were open, is building up in abandoned shafts and posing a potential threat to people living on the surface.
When you've got a 6-year-old and he throws a whiffle ball against a window and it bounces off harmlessly, nobody thinks anything of it.
Even if hit there are good chances that a shot passes harmlessly through the gas chamber.
No doubt this boisterous group may have seemed a bit scary although, to be honest, it all looked harmlessly theatrical in the pictures.
As several deliveries drifted harmlessly down the leg-side, the crowd muttered its disapproval. My attention turned to a man in front of me.
If this move works, it should succeed in parking the issue harmlessly for many years.
The suspended contaminants are nonabrasive and circulate harmlessly in the oil until they are removed when the oil is drained.
As predicted, the shells of the support bombardment mostly exploded harmlessly in the mud and little cover was available from that source.
By comparison some run-ofthe-river hydroelectric dams can be installed reasonably harmlessly and removed without the same irreversible changes.
The reason for striving for excellence in your work, whatever it may be, is a harmlessly selfish one.
Either way, consider the pilot to have not had a viable target or that the bomb harmlessly went astray.
North Korea launched a three-stage Taepodong-2 missile April 4 that fell harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean shortly after liftoff.
The third misconception is to believe that stored urine can be harmlessly used in the garden.
Coady badly miscued his second penalty, the ball bobbling harmlessly wide.
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Most infections are caused by bacteria that live harmlessly in your bowel.
There being no second chamber in Holyrood, why not use Westminster as a kind of House of Lords, where former leaders can harmlessly serve out their twilight days in obscurity?
The infection is carried harmlessly by about a third of the population.
The piece of debris from an old rocket engine passed by harmlessly.
So would he attempt to persuade an individual who had always harmlessly derived comfort and consolation from his faith that his life was based on a falsehood?
It began harmlessly enough, with a call from the manager of banco Bilbao in Malaga, who asked Schiller to stop by.
The sea had receded and scudded harmlessly onto the beach, the water sparkling in the sunlight.
In theory, someone could be relatively close to the explosion and survive since the shrapnel would zip by harmlessly overhead.
They sanctified the ground and declared that should whites attempt to attack the Red Sticks here, their bullets would fall harmlessly to the ground.
The first real chance went to Ashford after eight minutes, when Anthony Eggleton found himself in space in front of goal, but miskicked the ball harmlessly past the post.
I had come to observe so we passed a 'sord' of mallards by harmlessly.
Aethris cannoned into him, and the dagger hummed harmlessly into the air.
He liked telling harmlessly mischievous stories about people he had known.
The local anaesthetic is harmlessly broken down within a few hours.
I was harmlessly sitting at my desk looking though my account.
She was flirting harmlessly with some boys who were passing by.
Reality TV started harmlessly enough with mainly American shows.
It also breaks down harmlessly in the soil within about six weeks leaving no toxic residuals.
One landed harmlessly in the Castle grounds, narrowly missing the Civic shelter, but the other three had tragic consequences.
Stuart Holden sneaked in unmarked on to a hopeful cross, but the midfielder seemed surprised that the ball had reached him and allowed it to simply bounce off his right foot and harmlessly behind for a goal kick.
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To assert that stored and diluted urine can harmlessly be used in the garden can only be justified by total ignorance of physicochemical processes that take place in stored urine as well as those that partake in the soil.
The product is watertight, and will help protect the building enclosure from wind-driven rain and snow while providing a drainage plane to channel water harmlessly to the outside of the building.
This means that the moisture that used to dry harmlessly to the interior now encounters a vapor barrier that keeps it contained within the wall cavity where it is unable to escape.
Sebastian Soria raced clear 18 minutes later after he beat the Iraqi offside trap, but from a tight angle he could do nothing better than pull a shot across the goalmouth harmlessly.
When EGF is present in a person's intestines, it protects the intestinal wall and lets bacteria, protozoa and viruses pass through a person's system harmlessly.
Copper conducts electricity easily, so any static electric charge on your body zips harmlessly through the plate to the ground outside.
Compared with the political skirmishes, the street fighting and battles at the barricades, the aesthetic debates that led to the founding of the Bauhaus initially seem harmlessly apolitical.
The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful, blow.
Shock wave therapy, also known as lithotripsy, uses sound waves to break down smaller kidney stones, allowing the particles to pass harmlessly out of the body through urine.

In 1775 they wisely introduced a middle stump, as they found the best balls harmlessly flying between the wide wickets.
But the bolt caromed harmlessly off the side of the arcing Star Devil!
The bullet whizzed harmlessly by Meriem's head and an instant later she had disappeared into the foliage of the tree.
Had he remained where he was the missile would have passed him harmlessly.
Quite as a matter of course he ducked, and the fist flew harmlessly past, pivoting the man who had driven it.
At any rate, Dede and Daylight became aware of excitement in the paddock, and saw harmlessly reenacted a grim old tragedy of the Younger World.
As usual, it had begun quite harmlessly and inconspicuously.
They flew helter-skelter out of his grips, landing in all manner of attitudes, grotesquely and harmlessly, in the soft snow.
Although my side-to-side aim was spot on, I badly overestimated the elevation, causing the shaft to sail harmlessly over the hog's back.
At that instant the buck turned, the long pole glanced by him, the iron striking against his horn, and buried itself harmlessly in the lake.
Upon its smooth, impenetrable surface the puny dagger-thrusts of spite and envy glance harmlessly aside.
Could she think it was to deny her a pleasure that she might harmlessly enjoy?
But they rattled harmlessly off his steel buckler, while he laughed and minded them no more than if they had been hail-stones.
The reputation of being out of his mind, though harmlessly and even amusingly so, had procured for the abbe unusual privileges.
Jo sat still, looking as if the fire had come to her, for her cheeks burned long after the cocked hat had turned to smoke and gone harmlessly up the chimney.
Smallweed, but it passes harmlessly on one side of her chair.

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