Sentence examples for crushed upon from inspiring English sources

This was not an entirely satisfactory arrangement, since the shells generally exploded during their passage through the armour and not after they had penetrated to the vulnerable workings of the ship, but it was even less satisfactory to fit the shells with impact fuzes, which were simply crushed upon impact.

The mechanical strength makes the obtained geopolymers difficult to crush upon accidental chewing, and the geopolymers are therefore a safe and attractive material for controlled release of drugs with narrow therapeutic window, such as highly potent opioids.

The parking lot is a scrapyard, crushed cars piled upon each other.

The video was summarily criticized, hated upon, crushed with snarl and snark.

We can ask ourselves whether the enjoyment creates valued memories and anecdotes for years to come, or must be crushed and hidden upon consummation.

They inflicted a crushing defeat upon the papal army, and on June 18 , 1053 they took the pope prisoner.

Then, last September, Foster Wallace killed himself, a continued cause of sorrow that means Krasinski's film (just released in the US) now can't help but seem a little like cinema's eulogy to one of the greatest literary talents of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a crushing weight upon its shoulders.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that brought peace, and with his stripes we are healed".

His preferred material remains the fragments of discarded car bodies that he has used since the early 1960's, crushed and folded in upon themselves.

During the aerosol deposition process, the original particles could be crushed into fine particles upon the moment of impact on the substrate.

Three of his fingers were crushed at the tips; upon healing, they remained stiff and numb for the rest of his life.