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buildups

n. (plural of buildup English)

Usage examples of "buildups".

The sensors showed massive power buildups in areas close to the destruction.

Garai stared at those power buildups, wondering if he could raid them as the ships came down.

It was not uncommon for the supporting characters to be more active than the protagonists and the laughs came more from spontaneous humor than from punch lines with long buildups.

Not the coating inside the guts, of course, but harmful buildups of deposits elsewhere within the body.

In that same battle group Captains Form and Jakkes served, Jakkes having spent some few weeks on his new ranch only to report in as the reports of the spy ships told of massive buildups of Empire force in the periphery.

The tear in reality caused localized energy buildups that caused distortion of the stars behind it, so the ship seemed to almost appear out of "cloak," with a ripple like water.