Word with bang

Usage examples of slam.

We would need an accelerator to slam matter together with energies some million billion times more powerful than any previously constructed in order to reveal directly that a string is not a point-particle.

A door slammed forcibly, and Alec shrank back as a young man entered the bedchamber and collapsed into a chair.

He stepped into the antecourt and his host slammed the great door behind them.

Scant seconds, it seemed, after the COD had been nudged and prodded out of the way, an EA-6B Prowler electronic-warfare aircraft slammed into the deck in a barely controlled crash, yanked to a halt by the arrestor cable.

The floor of the ashram shuddered with the slam of a steel-reinforced door.

Jieret was slammed down by a clout that skewed the bandaging over his eyes.

It was enough time for the barbie to dart quickly through the door, slamming it behind her.

He heard the front door slamming and a couple bawling obscenely at each other on the path outside.

She knew what it had to beand that, unlike a SLAM, it possessed onboard seeking capability.

Trying hard to not slam the phone down, to hang on, to wait it out, because Beane had warned this was my one and only chance to get Skyla back.

It slammed Blucher back onto her haunches with Such violence that Otto von Kleine and his officers were thrown heavily to the steel deck.

His hand slammed the throttle full forward and his engines thundered with renewed life and power, ready to take him off the deck again in a touch-and-go bolter if his tail hook failed to connect.

The rest of my body slammed into the ground a second later, the breakfall not withstanding.

WHEN Joe Cardona, the swarthy New York police inspector, saw the front-page photograph that showed a crowd watching workers bring the supposed body of Dana Brye to light, he crumpled the whole newspaper and slammed it in the wastebasket.

A metre-wide geyser of water slammed upwards out of the gap, buffeting the corpse with it.