In like manner a rifle bullet, spinning vertically, overcomes an inclination of its atoms to move out of their horizontal path.
The reason why a shell from a cannon travels further than a rifle bullet, both having the same muzzle velocity, is easily explained.
A rifle bullet is, let us assume, three times as long as it is thick; a cannon shell the same.
While flying through space, he turns round his own axis like a rifle bulletin 25 or 26 days.
While in this position he fell, pierced through the body with a rifle bullet.
Soon after reaching this field Captain Dyer, Company D, fell dead, pierced in the heart by a rifle bullet.
The slight fragmentation, which is hardly more than a splitting of the bone, with little or no displacement, indicates that the wound was made by a rifle bullet at moderate velocity and at mid or long range.
The wound was caused by a rifle bullet at high velocity at or less than mid range.
This is the effect of a rifle bullet at short range, or possibly a ricochet shot at mid range.
The wound is an example of the misnamed “explosive” action of a rifle bullet.
A rifle bullet traverses a distance equal to its own diameter many thousands of times in a second.
If it be difficult to measure the speed of a rifle bullet, what shall we say of the speed of a ray of light, which is nearly a million times as great?
We learn the speed of a rifle bulletby an ingenious contrivance really founded on the same principle.
Sir Oliver Lodge has written recently that a seventieth of a grain of radium discharges, at a speed a thousand times that of a rifle bullet, thirty million electrons a second.
Each molecule of the air, which seems so still in the house on a summer's day, is really travelling faster than a rifle bullet does at the beginning of its journey.
I have used for comparison the speed of a rifle bullet, and in an earlier generation people would have thought it impossible even to estimate this.
That was well meant," throwing back his head, as a rifle bullet cut a lock of hair from his temple; "but the lead that misses by an inch is as useless as the lead that never quits the barrel.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rifle bullet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
