Sentence examples for capable of ripping from inspiring English sources

Their origin is commonly related to the existence of brief episodes of strong bottom-hugging currents capable of ripping up recently deposited, unconsolidated sediment.

They will play at a tempo far too high for all but the very strongest opponents, they have centres - Ma'a Nonu, Sonny Bill Williams, the brilliant Conrad Smith - capable of ripping up any defence, and they possess a bloke called Carter at outside-half.

We now stand at about 20,000 known pieces of space debris bigger than an apple that is, an apple capable of ripping through a steel wall at 17,000 miles per hour and there's bound to be more.

When it comes to running a gigantic machine capable of ripping a hole in the space-time continuum that could suck the entire earth (and more) into oblivion, it's probably safe to assume that you can never be too careful.

Many SEAL dogs come equipped with "titanium fangs capable of ripping through enemy protective armor," at a cost of "about $2,000 a tooth," according to the Daily.

Each containing 540 ball bearings capable of ripping through anyone within a mile radius, cluster "bombies" still lay in wait for victims.

We speculate that no active transposons have survived within any Australian isolate capable of RIP.

To establish that our approach is capable of detecting RIP-like mutational patterns, the method was first applied to the genome sequence of N. crassa, which is known to have a RIP process that targets the dinucleotide combination CpA (Selker 1990).

Indeed, as "Hejira" did for an earlier decade, "Telling Stories" forces a radical redefinition of our expectations of female-voice-and-guitar (that earnest folk cliche) and the propulsive sweep that they are capable of, be it jet stream, rip tide or new broom.

Similarly, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's warrior-like Marble statue of a youthful Hercules, chiseled by an unknown Flavian, features a ripped bod capable of twisting viewers' necks off (at least if it were alive).

Most recently, Kuhlmann et al have demonstrated that a RIP-like mechanism is capable of silencing retrotransposons in Dictyostelium [ 23].