The hum of bullets could be heard overhead, and there was the sound of splintering wood, as others crashed into the rear of the auto, but the machine sped on.
The whizzing bullets again flew around the car, and there was again the sound of splintering wood, as they smashed into the rear of the auto.
There came a dull report of parting mechanism, more sounds of splintering wood.
Wrenching the crowbar from its place he attacked the lower panel of the door, and amid a loud splintering and crashing created a hole big enough to allow of the passage of a hand and arm.
The earth shook beneath the terrific explosions of the shells, which went howling over the river, crashing into the houses, battering down walls, splintering doors, ripping up floors.
It was a tornado which wrenched off the trunks of oaks large enough for a ship's keelson,--riving them, splintering them with the force of a thunderbolt.
Again and again they were rolled in the surf, splintering against each other savagely.
The sea between the reef and the beach was now a seething mass of broken and splintering planks and beams.
But, as he struck, Mr. Smivvle caught his wrist, the bottle crashedsplintering to the floor, and they were locked in a fierce grapple.
There was a crash and a splintering of wood, and the yawl drifted rapidly past and was lost in the darkness.
Some of them were perforated by cannon-shot, or have been completely cut off in that peculiar splintering that marks the course of a projectile through green wood.
A miscalculation, a stroke of the sweep too little or too much, would send the heavily loaded boat with that tremendous, terrifying force behind it, crashing and splinteringon a rock like a flimsy-bottomed strawberry box.
If Bruce had not been so absorbed he might have heard the bottom splintering when she hit the rock.
There could be no doubt that the splintering crash and the grinding swirl of waters and ice were caused by the destruction of that span which dissolved into nothingness almost in a moment.
With the crash and splintering of the wood, and the breaking of the side of the schooner, there arose the cry of: "We're wrecked!
Crushing and splintering bones to facilitate sucking of the marrow.
The hand went again to the bar, was slowly lifting it when, following a second splintering crash, he fell forward on his face with a hollow cough.
A quantity of the fulminate of silver exploded on a copper plate will perforate that plate, or, if fired upon a piece of wood, will bury itself in that substance, splintering it in proportion to the quantity.
They are enormous machines, as will be seen on reference to their weights, as given in the following table; and their splintering powers are certainly very extensive indeed.
Nevertheless some of its window- frames had bulged with heat, and panes of glass fell with a splintering noise on to the stone pavement.
The enemy's shells came shattering across the French lines very frequently, and sometimes as I made my way through the trees towards the outer bastions I heard the splintering of wood not far away.
With a sudden crash it fell splintering in, and at the same instant Abdul felt himself lifted like a feather onto the roof above.
We heard voices very plainly, the splintering of saplings, and a heavier, thumping sound, which the Mohican whispered to us was like hewn logs being dragged over the ground and then piled up.
Then the door flew in with a splintering shriek under the charge of the human battering ram, and across it hurtled the other two detectives in a cloud of ancient dust.
A watchman in an office building near Battery Park reports that at dawn of that June morning he heard splintering glass.
The masts, also, were grinding against the bulwarks and making a horrible din, the crunching of the timber work and splintering noise of the planks almost deadening the noise of the sea and preventing us from hearing each other speak.
The young woman lay perfectly still, trying to close her ears to sounds of grinding teeth and splintering bones.
There followed the sound of splinteringwood as latch, bolt and strike were torn away.
The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--"Love of ladies, splintering of lances!
The fifth knight alone maintained the honour of his party, and parted fairly with the Knight of St John, both splintering their lances without advantage on either side.
During one of these bumps in the uneven street the door flew open, and the camera fell out on the cobble stones with a thud and a sound of splintering glass.
He almost forgot the horror at his heels until a splintering crash behind him brought him to his senses.
The colossus was splintering the massive panels as if they were of cardboard.
Then, with a rending, splintering sound she floated free of the island.
Then, with a splintering of timbers, a cracking of chains and a parting of ropes, the raft divided into two parts, one being swept down one side of the island, and the other portion down the opposite shore.
The forward logs were piled up brokenly on the shore, and a creaking, splintering sound gave warning that the raft was going to pieces.
Between precipices echoed the crash of ice sliding loose and splintering as it fell in ponderous masses.
It went into collapse with an explosive splintering and left fang-like reefs still standing.
The splintering crash of crockery filled the flat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splintering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
