Sentence examples for slow shoot from inspiring English sources

The preliminary bombardment was stretched over three days initially confined to a limited "slow shoot", building up to a final intense bombardment an hour before the assault and was successful in cutting much of the barbed wire that the Ottomans had placed in front of their position.

Apparently partial, albeit slow, shoot and root growth and biomass accumulation during submergence, particularly in culms and roots, are important for survival yet would not, for practical reasons, have been targeted in breeding.

They further selected two contrasting genotypes, one with slow shoot elongation (DV85; 0.3 cm) and the other with faster shoot elongation (Kinmaze; 3.1 cm), and crossed them to develop a set of 81 recombinant inbred lines.

Similarly, the classification of species with shoot ('epicotyl') dormancy, where delayed emergence is a result of continuous slow shoot development at cold temperatures rather than developmental arrest, has been challenged (Vandelook and van Assche, 2008).

It is well established that the quiescence (slow shoot elongation) strategy is especially advantageous in flash-flood prone areas where the whole shoot is submerged at a depth too great for vigorous shoot elongation to return leaves to the air, or the flooding duration is short (less than 2 weeks).

It is like watching very slow shooting stars".

TEXAS TECH 63, NORTH TEXAS 53: After a slow shooting start, No. 9 Texas Tech responded to beat North Texas in its first game without the starting forward Plenette Pierson, its leading rebounder and a top scorer.

To observers in Asia, Europe, and Africa, the asteroid will appear as a slow shooting star.

Decapitations, dismembering, slow shooting in the outer limbs until the victim begs to die, teachers assassinated and their schools turned into indoctrination centers by one armed force or another, all surrounded by an otherwise peaceful jungle: these are among the stories recounted in several dozen almost chromatic paintings.

This will lower your accuracy, but the alternative is painfully slow shooting.

On resumption of shoot growth, the shoots grow rapidly for a short time, while the plant is under little water stress; then, with the onset of water stress, the plants settles into a long period of slower shoot growth.