Sentence examples for shower of rocks from inspiring English sources

In a vote remarkably free of problems, Mr. Baradei was attacked by a mob when he went to cast his ballot, fleeing a shower of rocks and bottles.

But after one of the 30 or so rightists climbed on the shoulders of another to flash the cartoon at the Muslims, who had just finished praying, a shower of rocks and shards from smashed flower pots flew at the police in response.

Tens of thousands of protesters who have reimagined the very notion of citizenship in a tumultuous week of defiance proclaimed with sticks, home-made bombs and a shower of rocks that they would not surrender their revolution to the full brunt of an authoritarian government that answered their calls for change with violence.

Television reporter Anibal Archila was hit by a shower of rocks when he got too close to the volcano, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Guatemala City, said David de Leon, a spokesman for the national disaster committee.

A high-speed impact would have punched a giant crater into the moon and kicked a shower of rock into space, but if the two bodies met at less than three kilometres a second, the smaller moon would have splatted onto the surface of the larger and stayed there.

A shower of rock dust mixed with a toxic brew of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate explosives swept down their hollow, as the Richmond-based Massey Energy behemoth detonated another round of explosives in their haste to bring down the mountain for a thin seam of coal.

The troops advanced with bayonets and sabers drawn under a shower of bricks and rocks, but no shots were fired.

Some strapped pillows to their heads as protection from the showers of rock; many left it too late.

A shower of burning rocks killed Anibal Archila, a reporter for Canal 7, during the initial explosion.

Aftershocks sent repeated showers of fresh rocks down onto rescuers on the Chinese side, who were trying to clear them.

The same day, showers of smaller rocks broke many panes of glass in the lantern, a hundred and thirty-two feet above the sea.