It's been triggered to build up to critical mass by a Wendel agent.
Those cylinders build up to critical mass when they've been tampered with and triggered to explode in about forty-five minutes," I said.
For Stallman, the first taste of real computer programming at the IBM New York Scientific Center had triggered a desire to learn more.
And there was Bill Gosper, the in-house math whiz already in the midst of an 18-month hacking bender triggered by the philosophical implications of the computer game LIFE.
Maybe the shock triggered the pile dampers on one of the pumps.
He aimed to the windward of the intersecting lines andtriggered the nozzle.
He triggered the bottle and moved from shadow into glaring sunlight.
Rip pulled a tube from his belt, held it overhead, andtriggered it.
Twice, without being noticed, it swung rapidly towards the red line on its meter face; and then on its third approach the radiation counter swung over the red line and triggered an alarm.
Then he triggered a single one-microsecond pulse into the additional ten turns of winding.
These physical therapies were accompanied by counseling sessions dealing with some severe and long-unresolved problems, response patterns and relationships that triggered her present illness.
Allergies to foods and environmental irritants are frequently triggered by low blood sugar.
Most of the food seems to be obtained by active foraging that is triggered primarily by movement of the prey; the sense of smell is probably secondary.
The capture of food istriggered primarily by movement of prey; sight seems to be more important than smell to Trionyx in capturing food.
I guess the heat here triggered off the summer change early.
Breathing deeply, Brion softly spoke the auto-hypnotic phrases thattriggered the process.
The buzzer's whirr triggered his muscles into complete relaxation.
A tri-jointed arm reached across his shoulder, triggered a lever, pressed a button.
The Terran awoke with all his senses alert; some silent alarm might have triggered that instant awareness of himself and his surroundings.
He had brought with him, amongst other weapons, what in those days was considered a very beautiful hair-triggered small-bore rifle fitted with a nipple for percussion caps, then quite a new invention.
As the old H-bomb wastriggered by an atomic bomb, so the parabolite, even at less than critical mass, could be triggered by the remotely-detonated atomic bullet.
He stopped and triggered the gravity plates in his space boots.
He triggered the shield which snapped over them for a windbreak and brought the flitter up into the spreading color of the morning.
He triggered the controls and soared up and away, fighting the heaving in his middle, shaking off with one savage jerk the insistent pawing hand of the alien who wanted to join in the fun.
That signal of the passing of time triggered his impatience to be away--back to the RS 10.
It was spring-loaded and triggered to move right across the path of the rocket when we fired.
Quit stalling," the man threatened] Tom's tone of voice and the farfetched nature of what he was saying had already triggered the security chief's suspicions.
Far out in space, the retarding rockets in the missile's nose weretriggered for a brief burst, slowing its high speed.
Karma is a cosmic feedback mechanism triggeredby past actions.
During the drive to Casa Del Zorro, a fast-food restaurant triggered a flashback of Rama giving Sal and me LSD and taking us to MacDonald's.
Scotty triggered off half a dozen shots, then the three boys ran for the wall and started up.
Then, as the truck went past, Rick triggeredoff a half-dozen shots, aiming high.
Memory up to the time of the last conditioning can be restored by replay of a mindscan tape made then, and memory after the conditioning is triggered is retained; the interval between is lost.
They got themselves out of Russia on two Red Navy cruisers, about a thousand of them; then they systematically triggered off every ballistic missile they could find .
As he draped his pants so that nothing would fall out of the pockets, he glanced around the room and wondered whether his instincts were being triggered by a hidden camera.
Ross's heel scraped against it, and the resulting paintriggered his rebellion into explosion.
They might never have known of the Reds' activities if you hadn't triggered that communicator on the derelict.
He snatched at one of the autolitters and triggered its tiny drive motor.
Clay triggered the controls for the forward bow cannon and a panel box flashed to "ready fire" signal.
At mile marker 80, yellow caution lights were flashing on all westbound lanes, triggeredby Philadelphia Control the instant the word of the crash had been received.
The cocoons were triggered automatically in any emergency run or chase at speeds in excess of two hundred miles an hour.
I triggered the motor on my back and felt its gentle push against my spine.
There didn't seem any rush, and I drifted slowly over, using only a couple triggered bursts of deceleration to slow me down as I approached the open hatch.
It only had two positions--full open, or closed, so that navigation would consist of triggering the valve briefly open until a little push had been imparted, and drifting until you triggered the opposite rocket for braking.
Her earnestnesstriggered that instant response from him.
Recovery was upended in the last quarter of 2000 with the outbreak of Palestinian violence, which triggered tight Israeli closures of Palestinian self-rule areas and a severe disruption of trade and labor movements.
An army uprising that triggered a bloody civil war in 1998, created hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "triggered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
