What is "sparking"

Usage examples of "sparking".

For some minutes the contest continued, Blotto alternately sparking and stopping like a willing but broken-down motor.

Corby moved outward through the body-window and touched each of the gawking tribesfolk deep in the brain, sparking the pineal gland and the olfactory nerve-lobes with kha.

Even as he rehearsed this speech he recognized its futility, but the plug of nothingness that had stoppered his emotions during the auction had worked itself loose, the speedball of failure and rejection had worn off, and all the usual passions and compulsions were sparking in him again.

Allanon turned Spitter directly toward them, blue fire sparking on the fingers of one hand as it raised menacingly.

I was considering sparking up the second spliff when the doorbell rang.

A sailor attempted, Tarzanlike, to swing across the room on a chandelier, which pulled out by its roots, sparking and showering plaster down on the disappointed but undiscouraged apeman.

Emilia clung to the hind-bow of the saddle as they scrabbled along the steps, horseshoes sparking.

Their shock-swords clashed, sending showers of hyperexcited ions sparking toward the ceiling.

FDR Drive, which was a controlled-access expressway, the roadway here was dotted with stoplights and, at Fourteenth Street, it featured a jog that sent her misaligned Chevrolet into an alarming skid, resulting in a sparking kiss between sheet steel and concrete barriers.

The roaring energy blew orts into a scattering of sparking bones and whipping entrails.

Inside the sparking plug they fixed a toothed firing wheel and a long pyrophorous rod with a microfeed mechanism.

Lot eased his fingers out of the semisolid image wall, the tissue sparking white around his hand.

Personnel swarmed over its hull, using sparking electrical instruments to restore the sootlike coating.

A series of competitive tests of enclosed motors for use in mines has been announced, and is in progress, the object being to determine whether or not sparking from such motors will cause an explosion in the presence of inflammable gas.

The dwarf tursiops surfaced again, turned an eye on the humans, then headed off to the dolphin pens, his wake sparking red in the late afternoon sun.