Sentence examples for contact mine from inspiring English sources
The effectiveness of this strategy was apparent when US Navy amphibious assault carrier Tripoli was put out of action by a contact mine, after which floating mines were labeled a primary threat to US Navy aircraft carriers.
The earliest sweeping system, devised to clear anchored contact mines, consisted of two ships steaming across a minefield towing a wire rope between them; mine mooring lines were cut by sawlike projections on the sweep wire or by cutting jaws.
The conference did, however, adopt several conventions relating to such matters as the employment of force for the recovery of contract debts; the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in war on land and sea; the laying of automatic submarine contact mines; the status of enemy merchant ships; bombardment by naval forces in wartime; and the establishment of an international prize court.
Quick Links, for example, could be extended with a TinyURL-like bridge to encapsulate FriendFeed conversations and export them to the Twitter or Mesh cloud, or be written into Google Reader's new Shared Item Notes and broadcast to Gmail contacts under user control instead of the current "Friend" contact mining that damages GReader's privacy integrity.
Admiral Hipper also carried 96 EMC mines; these mines were contact mines and had a 300 kg explosive charge.
He suggests that it was possible UB-13 had set off some of the contact mines on the net, or possible that the submarine had struck a mine in one of the many British minefields off the Flemish coast.
Dodge the Hunter-Chopper's contact mines that it drops.
Note the pulse turret attacks and the contact mines it drops.
The Hunter-Chopper emits a loud alarm when it is dropping its contact mines, so get ready to dodge them when you hear this.
Abhay's parents had contacted mine via a typical Indian matrimonial website, and then the two parties exchanged (their kids') numbers.
