Sentence examples for causing a piece of from inspiring English sources

Two of the bullets pierced President John F. Kennedy, causing a piece of his skull to fly into the air.

In his haste, he stepped on a flimsy manhole that collapsed, causing a piece of wood to slice a two-inch-deep gash in his leg.

When the woman attempted to escape with her children, Matavo chased after her and kicked the stroller, causing a piece of it to hit the 3-year-old in the head.

When you open the gallery's front door, a motion-detection sensor trips a fan that causes a piece of wire suspended from the ceiling to rotate.

The instrument has four pedals, including a "moderator" pedal that causes a piece of cloth to be inserted between the hammers and the strings.

Rather, he was talking about the relationship between a player and his racket, how the right racket can bring to mind that line from "Sweeney Todd": "At last, my right arm is complete!" And from a commercial point of view, he was talking about another kind of psychology, the kind that can cause a piece of sports equipment to become the "it" racket.

Especially during a first half of uninspired slugging, there was generally little threat to either goalkeeper, set pieces causing a bit of scrambling, but no worthwhile attempts.

Engineers think the leak could have been caused by a piece of space debris no wider than a human hair punching a hole in one of the station's radiators.

It came right at the end of the evening and it was a literal one, caused by a piece of paper discarded on the stage.

Since the loss of the shuttle Columbia in 2003, because of damage caused by a piece of insulating foam that struck the left wing, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has taken painstaking care to analyze instances of foam falling off during liftoffs.

There's an exploding hot dog, a dead body in a crate, a skunk and a flesh wound caused by a piece of Cool Ranch Dorito shrapnel, but the steady accumulation of absurdity that's necessary for real farce is missing.