What is "projectiles"

Usage examples of "projectiles".

Answering bursts from fearsomely powerful arrays streaked toward the task force as spiraling golden projectiles, grotesquely beautiful against the starfield.

As if in riposte, a pack of coralskippers isolated and surrounded a lone gunship, leaching it of its shields, then battering it with projectiles, kindling a deadly inferno that quickly engulfed the ship.

Halfway there, however, destructive projectiles sought and found him, blowing the X-wing to pieces.

Rimward, local space was a pyrotechnic welter of laser beams, radiant projectiles, fusial thrusters, and blossoming explosions.

If someone shoots you with one of those metal projectiles, the barrier will deflect it.

Wisher, others on the homeless mob now moving up the street, scooping up fresh projectiles from trash cans and Dumpsters, shouting their anger and defiance.

One thousand ships deployed, materializing instantly, in ranks of awesome power, weapons ready to annihilate a fleet of Texican ships which disappeared from their instruments even as the pre-programmed guns were activated to blast briefly into empty space before the first of two waves of Darlene projectiles ripped the ranks of the Empire into flaming disarray.

Empire ships with Darlene projectiles, blinking in and blinking out before Empire gunners could train their beam weapons on his ships.

Lex, the first to strike, blinked out, men were dying behind him, dying by the hundreds, the thousands, as Darlene projectiles blinked inside the hulls of Empire ships, the shields useless, unable to stop the passage of an object traveling in non-space, and the kill was total.

The Empire weapons caused three Darlene projectiles to explode prematurely as they left the muzzles of the Texican ships.

A single Texican Rearguard, able to sit through the barrage of weapons aimed against it for the time required to launch projectiles, could kill a hundred ships in five minutes.

First, Darlene projectiles took out the protecting Vandys, then, millions of men dead, a concerted effort demolished the Cassiopeian force of Middleguard cruisers, leaving a core of huge Rearguards grouped together like frightened, herded meacrs.