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Example sentences for "terrific speed"

  • They talked of Mars for some time further, discussing the many queer features, and during this time the Annihilator was shooting through space at terrific speed.

  • That's going to be terrific speed," remarked Jack dubiously, as if there was some risk in it.

  • In another second the three deltas made a slight left bank and shot by the B-25 at terrific speed.

  • Both the radar on the ground and the radar in the F-94 showed that as soon as the airplane would get almost within gunnery range of the UFO it would suddenly pull away at a terrific speed.

  • In a second or two the "pinpoint" grew larger and it was obvious to the CAA man that something was approaching the airport at a terrific speed.

  • The UFO that the student radar operator had assumed to be traveling at a terrific speed because he couldn't lock on to it turned out to be a 400-mile-an-hour conventional airplane.

  • The cinematographer photographed the approach of the automobile and the human driver in the seat approaching the cliff at terrific speed.

  • Yet when Tesla gave the word, and his assistant turned on the steam, the small dynamo to which the turbine shaft was geared, instantly began to run at terrific speed.

  • Our aerenoid now gently rocked with the motion of a boat that is in the swell of a passing steamer, and I instantly realized that another aerenoid, travelling at a terrific speed, had passed in the canal beneath us.

  • I now moved the current in a westerly direction, travelling at what would be a terrific speed on Earth, until I came to land.

  • The barricade had now come to a standstill, and it trembled all over every time that it was struck by the heavy bullet travelling at terrific speed at so short a range.

  • He glanced back, and saw that the riders had lashed their speedy ponies to a furious gallop and were climbing the slope towards them at terrific speed.

  • Swiftly they sped down the corridor, and had almost reached the open air, when suddenly there was a dull rumble behind them, and they were caught on a wave of pressure that hurled them along at terrific speed.

  • As the disrupter beam could be projected only about a mile, they would have to dive down on the enemy at once; an instant later the great plane beneath them seemed to be rushing upward at a terrific speed.

  • They behaved wonderfully, shooting about at terrific speed, and with all the acceleration a pilot could stand.

  • It flew through the air at terrific speed.

  • When the pilots tried to close in, the strange craft zoomed at terrific speed.

  • In some cases, they would have been flying against the wind, at terrific speed.

  • The circular craft, blinking a strange blue-white light, pulled up in an arc at terrific speed.

  • Whatever it was, it flashed down toward us at terrific speed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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