What is "kevlar"

Usage examples of "kevlar".

He was almost glad the house was so dark because he felt ridiculous: sitting here in his blacked-out raid wear, Kevlar vest, and bloused BDU pants, surrounded by lace antimacassars, crochet work, and frilly doilies.

The air pressure spiked from a normal fifteen pounds per square inch to twenty-two hundred pounds, shattering the iron pipes into jagged shrapnel that punched through the Kevlar suit like hyperfast bullets.

While perfect for extra-dimensional travel, the black fatigues, Kevlar body armor and a web-belt bristling with ammo pouches and twin Mac-10 submachineguns was not quite the thing for corporate board meetings.

I felt pellets hit and heard them thwap through the plastic of my windbreaker, but the Kevlar softened the blow of the four or five that hit me.

Desert Eagle into its holster and stood to press the holster against the Velcro patch at the back of the Kevlar vest.

The local bugs also used an aramid polymer, similar in some respects to Kevlar, as the hard core of their exoskeletons.

His favorite magazine was Mountain Biking Action and Reaction, and he would spend countless hours analyzing the carbon fiber frames, titanium handlebars, aluminum cranks, elliptical chain rings, front suspension forks, full suspension bikes, grip shifters, quick release levers, gel racing seats, disc wheels, bar ends, clipless pedals, Kevlar (TM) tires, altimeters, casette hubs, and other wondrous objects that filled its pages.

The door panels, trunk, roof, and engine compartment were armoured with Kevlar, aluminium oxide ballistic ceramic tiles, which was lighter than the old-style heavy steel plate that tended to render a vehicle clumsy and so impede its performance.

In the backs of each of the first four vehicles were sharpshooters wearing black masks, black helmets, steel gray jumpsuits and thick Kevlar bulletproof vests.

Hardcastle plugged the driver's Kevlar helmet communications cord into the computer, got out of the vehicle, unreeled the fiberoptic data cable at least fifty feet, and knelt.

While Beezer and the rest of the Thunder Five are arriving in the FLPD parking lot just off Sumner Street, Dale and Tom Lund and Bobby Dulac - bulky in their Kevlar vests - are double-parking in front of Lucky's.

He looked back in the bustle-rack of the turret, and had to dig through a large drip pan, some empty ammo cans, a chock block, some empty Doritos bags, an oil can, and a case of MRE's before he found his Kevlar helmet.

Now, as he readied to go on his evening rounds-showing the flag, boarding boats he deemed suspicious, handing out brochures to newcomers and checking the boundaries because they were there-he wore full gear: sidearm, baton, pepper spray, cuffs and a Kevlar bulletproof vest.

If haute couture ever discovers kevlar, I'll be doing turns on Paris runways.

Later, as she aged and the concept of maintenance eluded her, she began having parts replaced as they failed, until almost half of her body weight was composed of stainless steel (hips, elbows, shoulders, finger joints, rods fused to vertebrae five through twelve), silicon wafers (hearing aids, pace-maker, insulin pump), advanced polymer resins (cataract replacement lenses, dentures), Kevlar fabric (abdominal wall reinforcement), titanium (knees, ankles), and pork (ventricular heart valve).