Glancing blow

Usage examples of ricochet.

Many glanced, spun ricochetting into the sea, and with a venomous buzzing like huge, angry hornets, lost themselves in quick, white spurts of foam.

The platform was scarred with deep, charcoal-blistered trenches made by the reflected beams of energy weapons and pocked with thousands of splintered gouges and impact holes from ricocheting slugs and rifle pellets, and blasphemies and cabbalistic signs had been carved into the polished ancient planks, but the huge black disc of the shrine itself, being only partly of this world, was inviolate.

He takes a mighty swing at the boy, but his inebriated con- dition causes the blow to ricochet off, and slam against a locker panel.

Triumphantly, Durand kept working the control until the robot came so close that bullets were actually ricocheting toward the grandstand box.

He then fired at the Pykrete, which was so strong that the bullet ricocheted, narrowly missing Portal.

The tires ricocheted wildly off the rocks, while Rinker tried to anticipate them with the twelve-gauge pump.

Green, Sile was looking for Countess Markievicz when a gunshot ricocheted off a tree trunk and spattered her with bark.

The unfeasible amounts of hard currency generated by the drug ricochet around this continent creating casualties wherever they go.

The metal man on overwatch gave her a burst, but the bullets howled away in whining ricochets.

The hideous hall itself, all harsh angles and glaring lights and weird ricocheting reflections, and the pompous officials of the Pontifical staff in their preposterous little traditional masks, and the windy speechmaking, and the boredom, and above all the burdensome sense of the entire Labyrinth pressing down upon him like a colossal mass of stone - merely to think of it had filled him with horror.

Remnant of car ricocheted from impact cloud, spinning like dervish, shedding parts en route, to recross street.

Root and Scalene, disintegrated into a cloud of shrapnel and dust, particles ricocheting off the tunnel walls.

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.

There was a shot which clipped a splinter from a tree and ricocheted across the -trail in front, and a shout of warning, I was suddenly aware that I could only hear the thud of my own boots and I turned to see Harry sprawled on the ground and the chiclero running up to him with upraised gun.

The third shot, aimed this time at the downs forming the upper side of Union Bay, struck the sand at a distance of four miles, then having ricocheted: was lost in the sea in a cloud of spray.