Sentence examples for shatter on impact from inspiring English sources

The problem is that bullets usually shatter on impact.

They have the advantage of reduced weight, high creepage offset, and resistance to the effects of vandalism since the sheds do not shatter on impact.

In another, a succession of women fall out the same window and shatter on impact — six in all, until the narrator gets bored with all these falling, shattering babushkas and wanders off.

The glass would shatter on impact, putting out the fire and saving the home or business.

The report does praise the partnership for developing many innovations, such as automobile fuel cells that can run on more than one type of fuel, high-power lithium batteries, and lightweight composite materials that do not shatter on impact.

The Spanish discovered that the Maya arrowheads were fashioned from flint and tended to shatter on impact, causing infected wounds and a slow death; two of the wounded Spaniards died from the arrow-wounds inflicted in the ambush.

The wings had shattered on impact; the engines and the landing gear had been torn off.

One of the aircraft shattered on impact, while the other, left mostly intact, spiraled to the ground.

The pink crust of the Musical Brain had shattered on impact, a sign of its fragility, because it had fallen only a few feet.

Though Luna 2 was shattered on impact, the mission was a major success, as it represented an important first in the history of space exploration.

Investigators believe the forward section of the orbiter was blown free of the explosion, and then tumbled intact to the ocean surface, where it shattered on impact.