Sentence examples for and causing a small from inspiring English sources

The trigger of a semiautomatic pistol is pulled, and a firing pin in the back of the gun darts forward, slamming into the primer on the rear of the cartridge holding the bullet and causing a small explosion.

The bottle fell to the floor without breaking and caused a small fire easily extinguished by a worker, he said.

A few days earlier, a pipe left from the old steam room had cracked and caused a small section of the ceiling to collapse.

This angered Cuban ("Has Facebook now taken a moral subjective stance on behalf of all users on how such groups should be dealt with?") and caused a small storm of protest from users who believe Facebook is acting hypocritically.

A shallower source, 1700 m above sea level, also inflated and caused a small phreatic eruption.

The blast ruptured her eardrum and caused a small skull fracture, leaving her deaf in her right ear.

Several of the officers recruited by Ellsworth, however, did not approve and caused a small controversy by resigning their commissions.

Like other common water additives such as chlorine, hydrofluosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride decrease pH and cause a small increase of corrosivity, but this problem is easily addressed by increasing the pH.

The presence of natural killers (NK [19], plays a relevant role at this stage as they can activate macrophages and cause a small amount of bacillary destruction[20].

Within a similar time frame, the neurons developed changes in their electrical properties, which increased their excitability and caused a small but significant fraction to fire spontaneously in vitro.

Our stroke was a 30 min tMCAO, which is considered a minor insult, and caused a small infarct (Fig.  2).