Sentence examples for striking the surface from inspiring English sources

If Beagle survived this far, it would have inflated a set of huge airbags, encasing it in a soft cocoon before striking the surface at around 36mph.

Every day and every night somewhere in one of the world's oceans my father is striking the surface of the abyss with swords of fire.

News comes at us in salvos these days, like meteorites striking the surface of the moon, the small ones that raise some dust interspersed with the big ones that carve out craters.

Beck has an instantly recognizable, amazingly personal sound at the piano — his tone is focussed and percussive, with a measured physicality, as if each finger were a tap dancer striking the surface with its own intensity.

For high-speed progression across a body of water, shore birds and basilisk lizards (Basiliscus basiliscus) support their bodies above the water surface by repeatedly striking the surface with their feet.

Once air has built up below the craft to a pressure equaling the craft weight, incoming air has nowhere to go but outward and experiences a sharp change of velocity on striking the surface.

Recently a major comet struck the surface of Jupiter.

A meteorite is a larger fragment, from pebble to boulder-sized, that survives to strike the surface of the Earth.

Abrasive fragments borne by a stream of liquid or gas may wear down a surface if they strike the surface at high speeds.

As a result, there has been ongoing controversy about whether the metal particles actually melt as they strike the surface to be coated.

You'll see red lines of sight extend from the center of projection (red ball) through each picture and continue into they strike the surface of a cylinder (gray mesh).