Sentence examples for capable of piercing a from inspiring English sources

After Monday's mortar attack, Israeli tanks pounded the area with what Israeli press reports said were 25 hollow shells, each capable of piercing a wall and killing anyone in its path.

These bones are the only thing capable of piercing a bacchae's heart and killing them.

Crucially, Van Persie and his vice-captain Arjen Robben – in the form of his life and capable of piercing any defence in this competition with his direct running – have become Van Gaal's missionaries on the pitch.

Angola are strong and Cape Verde, who knocked out Cameroon en route to their first ever finals, are disciplined and tough, with the speedy forward Ryan Mendes and the marauding midfielder Marco Soares capable of piercing any defence.

Earlier this year, Putin said the Avangard has an intercontinental range and can fly in the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound, making it capable of piercing any missile defense system.

The fable of love associated by arrows typically capable of piercing hearts with a secret potion could not be any more dramatic.

It has the "narrowness of a laser beam which is capable of piercing metal"; it's a "voice from the 'Black Hole' of Leningrad, the epicentre of communist terror, the city that suffered so terribly the horrors of war"; it "burns … with an inhuman intensity and a spiritual strength, as though it his broken away from musical substance and exists independently, like radiation or gravity".

In follow-up searches of the area, police found bomb components including detonators, and a RPG 18mm rocket launcher, with an explosive warhead capable of piercing armour.

DU is a chemically toxic and radioactive heavy metal produced as waste by the nuclear power industry that is included in weapons because it is an extremely hard material capable of piercing armour.

Inside is a smaller, denser "subcalibre penetrator" capable of piercing 11 feet of concrete.

This shell used a shaped charge with a conical cavity that concentrated its explosive energy into a very high-velocity jet capable of piercing thick armour.