Tire mishap

Usage examples of puncture.

Probably these later types also depended heavily on shellfish for food: broken and punctured ammonite shells have been found in eastern marine beds also.

After some tugging, he extracted a curved grey ancipital horn, which had punctured the spleen and sunk deep into the body.

Then the liquid reactor coolant sprayed and flooded the compartment as the number-two reactor vessel flew off its foundation and careened to the aft bulkhead, where it punctured the titanium wall.

We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy.

There were so many chambers and compartments in the heptagon that it had of course been impossible to puncture them all, and in some of the tight rooms were groups of hexans, anxious to do battle.

He was so close that Danlo could see each of the large pores puncturing his cheeks and smell the metallic acridness of jook wafting off his breath.

In another case, a young American airman was injured in a mock duel with another serviceman, when a miniature fencing foil was plunged into his right nostril, puncturing a small part of the limbic system immediately above.

I ran through a gauntlet of tests--magnetic resonance imaging, more X rays, many electroencephalographs, at least a dozen more visits to the cubicles where my eyes were examined through ophthalmoscopes, and twice that number of needles puncturing my arms to draw off blood for laboratory examination.

It was also quickly ascertained that the head puncture went right through the osseous part of the cranium, but did no damage of any kind.

James Molony picked up the piercer the head waiter had left on the table and punctured the tip of his cigar with precision.

The splintering bone had punctured her lung, the resulting pneumothorax collapsing almost two-thirds of that lung.

A panther-head came next, and I made a puncture in his low forehead with my poignard that emerged from the back of his head.

What coughing and gagging, what outrageous retching and hawking, what bursts and punctures of steam and gas, what eructations, what disgorgementsand the leaping plumes and flashes and pulsing brain-scans the flames made, until they relaxed and quieted, and began to breathe again.

Blein said that the siker barbs that had punctured her face had missed the eye pouch, and that the woman had the use of the sight in that eye.

The drive will puncture the vast underground reservoir and the water will run back and flood the entire Sonder Ditch workings.