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Example sentences for "blank range"

  • Beyond point-blank range, the gunner was never sure of hitting his target.

  • The point-blank range of this Spanish gun was a football field's length farther than either the falcon or demisaker.

  • These guns were flat trajectory weapons, with a point-blank range of about 300 yards.

  • At the word the men sprang forward, but almost as they did so, the Confederates behind the parapet in their front, with fairly level aim and at point-blank range, poured upon the head of the column a deadly volley.

  • After checking the advance of the British by land, the Americans waited coolly for the column of boats to come within point-blank range.

  • A second broadside, at point-blank range, had no effect on her.

  • All the guns, of both fort and water battery, were within point-blank range of the only channel through which the fleet could pass.

  • Finally, some men of the left counter-attack got within 20 yards of the enemy's trench, and one machine gun took up a position enfilading it at point-blank range.

  • You could not hear except in a distant kind of way, for our guns fired at point-blank range, and their noise was even worse than the bursting shells.

  • No amount of good fortune will preserve a man when a revolver is fired at point-blank range.

  • As for Hal, he was too stunned to be able even to see for a few moments, so great was the effect of the rifle which had been discharged at point-blank range.

  • The firing, at point-blank range, was so furious that the men's clothing was ignited.

  • The Russians, it is stated, invariably allowed the Germans to come in to well within point-blank range, remaining silent, holding their fire and not showing a light meanwhile.

  • Our adversary will not stand at the point-blank range of our rifle, for the attack is never mutual, we are sure of that.

  • In these desperate struggles for aerial supremacy the one party endeavours to bring his opponent well within the point-blank range of his armament: the other on his part strives just as valiantly to keep well out of reach.

  • He opened rifle fire upon these at point-blank range, but needless to say was unable to stop them.

  • I recall Vauxmarie, the firing at thirty yards, then at ten, then at point-blank range.

  • And most undoubtedly that Boche would have spitted Porchon, whose revolver was empty, had not Courret, a corporal of the company, brought the man down with a shot fired at point-blank range.

  • Apart from ample machine-guns and infantry in the trenches, the Germans had two field guns on the ridge, firing at point-blank range in directions where they would be of most service.

  • Such as had any stomach left for fighting were sickened by a dose of shrapnel and canister from four light guns, which Maude had driven up within point-blank range.

  • Within point-blank range, if the hull of an enemy's vessel is obscured by smoke or darkness, the aim may be directed by the flashes of his guns.

  • In firing at small objects, particularly boats, within point-blank range, it is therefore important to attend to this source of error.

  • This range or distance is commonly called point-blank, or point-blank range, and is the number noted in the column marked P.

  • The men held their fire till the Germans reached point-blank range.

  • Moving along "Winter Trench" he was suddenly fired at from point-blank range by one of his own men and severely wounded in the arm, his elbow-bone being shot away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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