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Usage examples of tracer.

Juge impitoyable, il ne manque jamais de tracer sur ses tablettes la ligne de condamnation, et rentre les ongles pleins de cire, comme une abeille ou un bourdon.

Rafales got on their tail and the two planes roared over the ocean together, the Rafale trailing the Sukhoi, blazing away at it with orange tracers.

Davis dived first, Shaw following, smoothly, precisely, ignoring the tracers reaching up like broomstraws and the heavy flak bursts that jarred the Dauntlesses, with stick and rudders lining up the growing yellow deck beginning to slide around to starboard.

The most worrisome guess is a tracer, something jammed against the ship deliberately which will emit chemicals a smeller can follow.

Dan Thaler, earlier, I put a tracer on him and followed him to the Central City Hospital, hovered above this structure until tracer line swung over, indicating tracer line was moving away from hospital.

Opposite the seaplane bases, six TBFs loaded with fragmentation and incendiary bombs peeled off, angled down through the tracers of light and medium AA and plastered their assigned targets.

Then, if chance favors, the simple laboratory technique for determining codon assignments, the leverage so agonizingly close that he can close his eyes and see it in the phosphene tracers on his lids.

He saw the flat green mirror of the water, the red and green tracers rising from the merchant ships, slow as little balloons, queuing up to accelerate round his head and kick the water to foam.

Whenever another craft was sighted, which was rare, he revved up the engine and one of his machine gunners fired tracer rounds across its bow.

One after another the stubby, square-winged Wildcats slanted down, the gray gunsmoke streaming behind and the converging tracers ahead raking the packed decks of the enemy ships from stern to bow.

The gray gun-smoke streamed back over their wings and the tracers slanted out ahead, kicking up the coral and ricocheting in a hundred directions.

This, too, was punctuated by a tracer stream, unaimed but plainly visible to Beason and Sperry.

Wagner and Bauer were working the Bofors gun on the after deck, tracer streaming up in an arc, following the Junkers as it sped away and Wittig was hammering at it with the 20mm ack-ack gun in the fore deck well.

The barrel of the Bushmaster cannon canted upward and fired a burst of tracers.

I peeked into my survival vest as Phil chatted with one of the crew chiefs, and began to pull out all sorts of interesting items bullets, fishhooks, flashlights, strobe lights, tracers, whistles, and signaling mirrors.