Sentence examples for ground splits from inspiring English sources

The ground splits and cracks into fissures as enigmatic as oracle bones.

Another, Sadek al-Harithi, described the scene to the Associated Press as "an earthquake where I felt the ground split and swallow everyone".

Their robes soon became as dark as the soil, and so they blended into the earth as they made their way along the edges of fields, through open country, to where the farmable land stopped and the ground split open and the beautifully abraded knobs and canyons of the Badlands began.

Between sips of hot coffee mixed with ground split peas, which is the cheapest drink you can buy on the streets here, Adrian talks about the contradictions of Cuban history, beginning with the revolutionaries who came with Fidel Castro on a yacht from Mexico in 1956 through the civil war that followed the departure of the dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Another survivor, Sadek al-Harithi, said the explosions were like "an earthquake where I felt the ground split and swallow everyone".

Run, hurdle, hands on the ground, split handstand, pop, push your hips forward, and stand.

In case of symmetric central-located donor position in the nanocrystal the ground state splits into a singlet, doublet, and triplet [8, 10, 11], as it takes place in the bulk silicon [22, 23], the singlet level being strongly split off from the doublet and triplet levels and always turns out to be the lowest one.

I gently tapped them on the ground to split them open.

Consider that in the first set, Williams hit eight clean winners off the ground, evenly split with four each on the forehand and backhand wings.

By the Treaty of Rapallo (1920), Zadar became Italian, thereby losing further ground to Split as the chief town of Dalmatia.

The special constable found his driver, cowered behind her shield and watched a brick fly through the air, strike the ground and split in two.