39 examples of high-power in sentences

A low, high-power car, shaped like an ellipse, cut through the snarl of traffic, bleating.

"Hardly," returned von Ludwig; "but I have discovered that there is a high-powered motor boat aboard.

143) the wireless high-power station of Vienna is not allowed to transmit other than commercial telegrams under the surveillance of the Allied and Associated Powers, who take the trouble to determine even the length of the wave to be used.

So he went back for his rifle, a small high-power, repeating gun that he could take apart and hide under his coat.

The little high-power bullet struck and blew the tire off the wheel.

As in the case of rubber, there is beginning to be some apprehension about the future supply of high-power gasoline, so great is the demand.

Two minutes later the cloud of dust trailed a rakish, trim-lined, high-powered, purring Clagstone "Six" to a stop in front of the Occidental Hotel and Old Heck and Skinny Rawlins climbed glumly and stiffly from the front seat, after the thirty-minute, twenty-mile run from the Quarter Circle KT.

Moving-picture machine operators were seeking advantageous locations for their outfits; pedestrians dodged, indiscriminately, high-powered automobiles and plunging bronchos; the old and the new were slapped together in an incongruous jumble in the streets of Eagle Butte.

Bruce provided himself with a high-power magazine rifle.

There was no puff of smoke, for the new high-powered, smokeless powder was used.

I had an edge on the fellow on account of the high-powered voice he owned, so when he suggested that I had been dreaming, I climbed to my feet so that I could make my words more impressive when I started to tell him my opinion of his bluff.

The storm that came screeching after us from way across the Coral Sea was one of those high-powered freak disturbances that juggle with lumps of water like a vaudeville performer juggling with cheap crockery.

Mostly he makes me sore, but when I think about him straight, I wonder how he manages to keep on being as decent as he ishe's really a good enough sort!with all the high-powered petticoats in New York burning incense.

The modern high-power rifle has made them impossible.

Occasionally, after the explosion of a particularly well-placed Belgian shell, Thompson and I, from our hole in the roof and with the aid of our high-power glasses, could catch fleeting glimpses of scurrying grey-clad figures, but that was all.

With our high-power motorcycles, ought to make Peking before daylight, if we start right after dark.

Increased population, high-power guns, cultivation of the soil, the breaking up of large ranches into smaller holdings, have resulted in the disappearance of much of the game with which the land then abounded.

Between Villers-Cotterets and Soissons the road was strewn with high-power automobiles and motor-trucks that the Germans had been forced to destroy.

Those of you who wish to study this matter further will, I think, find sufficient information in my paper on "The Construction of High-Power Burners for Heating by Gas," printed in the Transactions of the Gas Institute for 1883, and in the papers on the "Use and Construction of the Blowpipe" and "The Use of Gas as a Workshop Tool.

LIMPUS, LOWELL M. How the Army fights; a clear expression of modern high-power warfare.

LIMPUS, LOWELL M. How the Army fights; a clear expression of modern high-power warfare.

This statement of course won't apply to the fancy cows which are high-power milk machines, and need to be packed in cotton, and kept in satin-lined stalls; but to such cows as farmers have, and always will have, it does apply.

I The Cañon Waring picketed his horse in a dim angle of the Agua Fria Cañon, spread his saddle-blanket to dry in the afternoon sun, and, climbing to a narrow ledge, surveyed the cañon from end to end with a pair of high-power glasses.

" "They considered it important that high-power modern rifles were to be sold at a very small price.

While he looked there came to his ears a roaring, as of some high-powered car traveling under full pressure of gas.

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