This was, perhaps, the first occasion on which a squeeze or compressive action was substituted for the percussive action of the hammer, in closing red-hot rivets, for combining together pieces of stout sheet or plate iron.
The prayers of the Church contain a petition against the spiritus percutiens, or spirit who produces 'percussive noises'.
In disposition and general habits it resembles the true Tyrant-birds, but differs from them in language, its various chirping and twittering notes having a hard percussive sound, which Azara well compares to the snapping of castanets.
The music of the Reed-Tyrant is weak but curious; it is composed of five brief percussive notes, distinctly metallic in sound, which may be imitated by gently and slowly striking fa la mi sol fa on the highest keys of the piano.
Presently percussive noises were heard on the parchment, resembling the dropping of grains of sand on its surface.
The movements were much slower than in the former case, and were almost entirely unaccompanied by the percussive vibrations then noticed.
Perhaps you think because I play upon an instrument of percussion I admire that other percussive machine of wood and wire, the piano, or consider the tympanum an inferior instrument?
While the percussive system of drilling is very generally used throughout the American oil fields, rotary methods of drilling are largely employed in California.
This cylinder, by which the percussive action of the boring-head is produced, is shown to a larger scale in the vertical sections, Figs.
These machines are of different types, but all depend onpercussive action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "percussive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
