Sentence examples for fire pieces from inspiring English sources

For example, Scott Hubbard, a board member, described in a briefing today tests that are now being carried out at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, where technicians are using a gun with a 30-foot barrel to fire pieces of foam at a test structure at about 500 miles an hour.

In the fire pieces she is at once manipulated by the fire, which she sees as "innate," and is in possession of it: "I can travel with it, let it go, bring it back," says Dignac.

In the fire piece, on the other hand, you can hear the crackling flames in the piano's spiraling, hyperfast figures and ominous dissonant tremolos.

It has involved a painstaking series of tests, not yet finished, including firing pieces of foam at 500 miles an hour into simulated and even actual shuttle wing parts.

The incorporation of these materials also increases the open porosity of the fired pieces and reduces the bulk density by up to 10%.

So Chapman's team used a combination of mathematical simulations and physical testing – "we took different alloys and fired pieces of rock at them to see if they are susceptible to cracking" – to settled on an aluminium alloy that could stand up against these extraordinary conditions.

Some of it was scorched black by fire, while some pieces of the plane's thin metal body were scratched, twisted and torn.

"iFixit, bless their hearts, have taken a Kindle Fire to pieces, though as it turns out, there aren't too many pieces to begin with.

For the entire hour, the priest fueled the fire with pieces of sandalwood and pinches of frankincense taken from a silver bowl.

Fragmentary images of Baghdad under fire were pieced together from network pools, news agencies, Al Jazeera and other Arab and European news organizations.

Still bathing in the glow of minimalist virtue, and contrasting it with the fire-breathing pieces of motor-sport history that would shortly be taking to the Goodwood hill, I have a fantastic piece of luck.