2088 examples of crashed in sentences
Even in the lightning speed of the action Bull found time to wonder what would be the result if the hoof of the wild horse crashed down into that upturned, handsome face, now stained with crimson and black with dust.
A bullet crashed through the head and brought the animal down.
The young tree crashed down and he began to lop off its branches.
"Now see here!" shouted Mr. Appleboy, coming out of the boathouse, where he was cleaning his morning's catch of perch, as his neighbor Mr. Tunnygate crashed through the hedge and cut across Appleboy's parched lawn to the beach.
" Sir Beverley's fist crashed down upon the table.
The heavens were filled with hurtling rocks; solid masses of granite ten feet square were thrown a hundred feet away; rocks weighing a ton were hurled still farther, as if they were no more than stones flung by the hand of a giant; chunks that would have crashed from the roof to the basement of a sky-scraper dropped a third and nearly a half a mile away.
His petroleum speculations had crashed like a bubble.
They were now speeding after the maddened horse dragging the frail carriage, hoping to get ahead of and stop the animal before it either crashed into the frail barrier, and leaped into the ravine, or upset the vehicle in trying to make the turn into the temporary road.
Instead she came over here under her own steam and crashed into me.
Had I not already gathered some notion of the powers for destruction of those one-ton, four-foot-long shells, I should have said that the spot where we halted had been battered and crashed at for hours; that scores and perhaps hundreds of bombs had been plumped into it.
"Put out the light!" Soma immediately crashed the lantern upon the ground, and I heard Holman groan.
The whoop came from the direction of the camping ground, and we had hardly crouched in the undergrowth when a nude native crashed through the vines and raced past our hiding place.
The gun whirled in his hand and the butt crashed heavily on the bar.
The whisky glass slipped from his hand and crashed on the floor.
A bomb crashed through the eaves and tore a hole as big as a small cellar in the street directly before the old castle, bursting with the concussion of a tornado.
Allied correspondents claimed that a dozen shots at least crashed through the roof, set the scaffolding ablaze, and that, at a time when Red Cross flags were floating from the tower and red crosses were painted on the roof, shells continued to devastate the beautiful interior, etc., etc.
Flash after flash, roar after roar, the lightning and thunder crashed and blazed as the full fury of the storm struck in.
One day it rained,for it was in August,and from time to time the enormous thunder-storms rolled up out of the valley and crashed and split themselves upon the sharp peak above Muro, and rumbled away to northward up the pass, while the deluge of cold rain descended in their track.
The boys heard his body as it rolled and crashed through the slight brushwood on the slope.
How long had preachers, essayists, orators, and journalists argued slavery round and round before the defiant deed crashed and settled it!
Before he could recover Ken's heavy revolver barrel crashed upon his skull and felled him like a log.
It rose at the upward pressure of Ranger's powerful arms and legs, shoulders and back; it crashed over on its side; he stood up and, without pause or outward sign of his exertion of enormous strength, set about adjusting the gearing to action, with the broken machinery cut out.
The lightning played all about me, the rain roared, the thunder crashed overhead.
Far below, glass crashed and jangled.
As the huge machine crashed, plunged, staggered, then righted herself and soared aloft, shouts echoed down the corridors, shots crackled from the lower gallery and from a few open ports.