Cannonball sounds

Usage examples of splashes.

By the time he splashes, his boat likely will have drifted several hundred feet with the current, so that it is no longer over the wreck.

Vivid splashes of color blossomed in the shady forest, scarlets and blues and flashes of brillant lemon that lived in profusion in the foliage of the shrubbery.

Mostly it was left as a preserve, with meadows and sparkling creeks, nesting birds, and lush patches of flowers that bloomed in successive splashes of color as the patches of crusty snow faded.

Niko Bludd looked sadly at the crimson splashes and mangled corpses scattered around the flat landing grids.

In a minute it was stopped and settling in a smother of tiny splashes from the .

The TBDs, flat on the water among the antiaircraft bursts and splashes and under the swooping fighters, circled doggedly for a shot at her port beam.

They had watched the friends of their youth skitter and cartwheel and remembered the quick splashes and the slow falling of the spray.

At times the ship was completely hidden among the towering bomb splashes but threw up a vicious defensive fire and zigzagged so successfully that no hits were made.

At quarter past three they saw bomb splashes rise white close astern of the carrier and, looking up, saw the tiny, dark blue shapes of two Avengers in a horizontal bombing run at 12,000 feet In another minute angry Zeros jumped the two scouts and they headed home.

The pilots who survived the skips and dragging splashes had plenty of time to get out their rafts while the planes floated nose down, held up for a while by the empty fuel cells in the wings.

Minutes after she had disappeared the homing SBDs could see small splashes as buoyant pieces broke away from the settling hulk, shot through the surface and fell back.

The three torpedoes nosed into the sea with small splashes for such a weight of steel, plunging deeply but quickly leveling off at their preset depth.

There was no visible response from the enemy except for a few splashes around the advancing amtracs.

Bomb splashes fountained and boiled around ships in the anchorage and smoke bloomed in the airfield and barracks areas.

The other three walked her length, blowing gaping holes in decks and sides and blasting debris that fell back in showers of large and small splashes well out from the ship.