Sentence examples for opened prematurely from inspiring English sources

Two of the inflatable emergency exit slides opened prematurely, pinning flight attendants to their seats and making those exits inoperable.

Mr. Hart fell 78 feet to his death in May 1999 when a mechanism on a harness lowering him to the ring opened prematurely.

The Scottish champions were heading to Tannadice before one of the balls opened prematurely, forcing a re-draw.

After the crash, Virgin Galactic took over the design and construction of the new SpaceShipTwo and said it devised a mechanism to prevent the feather system from being opened prematurely.

One group of tadpoles was discarded because their experimental chamber opened prematurely.

A closely wrapped ham will not need basting and should not be opened prematurely.

I thought of the immortal scene in Jacques Tati's film "Playtime" — a comedic critique of glass-and-steel modernity — in which a would-be-stylish night club opens prematurely and begins to collapse around a party in progress.

Buds can be caused to open prematurely by gibberellin treatment, which, as in the case of vernalization, can sometimes replace a cold experience; moreover, the gibberellin content in the buds of certain woody plants increases during chilling.

I thought of the immortal scene in Jacques Tati's film "Playtime"—a comedic critique of glass-and-steel modernity in which a would-be-stylish night club opens prematurely and begins to collapse around a party in progress.

"I felt very strongly that the worst thing we could do was to open prematurely and then be forced to close because we weren't really prepared," Mr. Komansky said.

He seems to have lost his nerve and opened fire prematurely.