What is "nozzles"

Usage examples of "nozzles".

At the same time, liquid oxygen, pumped from the nozzles instead of the hypergol, extinguished the plasma cushion, and the rocket, descending on a cold drive, regained its vision.

They jammed the nozzles of their acid guns into the apertures of the shattered and cracked bunkers and let them spray.

On command, the Fighters lowered themselves to the ground, elevated the nozzles of their weapons enough to keep them from getting clogged by anything on the ground, and began slithering forward through the muck.

His craft, sweeping the darkness with bursts from the correctional nozzles, fell on course: the trajectory of its actual flight matched the one plotted by the computer point for point.

They pointed the nozzles of their weapons at bunker apertures and fired.

Small, dun-colored figures with tanks on their backs and hose nozzles in their hands rose from the water and sprayed streams of viscous, greenish fluid at the Marines who were trying to return fire at the weapon that had just killed half of them.

Half a dozen of them were huge and carried swords in their hands, and the nozzles of acid guns banged against their hips.

The tanks of acid guns were visible on their backs, the nozzles in their hands.

Two of them carried acid gun tanks on their backs, nozzles in their hands.

At the command of the Fighter who gave orders like a Leader, the other Fighters unslung nozzles and pointed them at the creatures who were starting to charge toward them.

The nozzles of the jets that only a short time ago had glowed white with incandescent heat began to contract while cooling off.

But when she brought her hand over the trough, water sprayed from hidden nozzles in the wall.

Twenty-five tons of liquid hydrogen ignited, sending a rush of superheated gases through the engine nozzles, propelling the massive spacecraft against the pull of gravity.

The aft part of the wing section flared into giant nozzles, which, when the twin nuclear fusion engines were on full power, could propel the ship at twice the speed of a normal cruiser.

Beyond these were ballistic missile sites and nozzles for nerve gas and flamethrowers.