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Example sentences for "vital spot"

  • But, my son, should you spy a moose lying down, it is rather risky to fire at it in that position, as it is then hard to hit a vital spot.

  • Then the hunter has his opportunity, for on seeing the beast pass broadside, he fires, and thus stands a good chance of hitting a vital spot.

  • It all depended now upon which ship was struck in a vital spot first.

  • But the Scharnhorst had not been hit in a vital spot, and she continued to fight back desperately.

  • Although raked from stem to stern, the Marie Theresa had not been hit in a vital spot.

  • He saw in that instant the reason the German's bullet had not penetrated a vital spot.

  • Two other bullets struck him -- one in the arm and the other in the thigh, but no one reached a vital spot.

  • Every now and then one of these terrible instruments of warfare burst to pieces, killing its crew, as a German shell struck in a vital spot, but, for the most part, they advanced unharmed.

  • In addition they hunted them with rifles with great patience and care, never risking a shot until they felt quite sure that it would find a vital spot.

  • They would shoot their arrows by him, graze him perhaps if he stood steady, but if he sought to evade through fear, if he sprang either to one side or the other, they might strike in a vital spot.

  • He knew that the Sioux warrior was steadily coming closer and closer in his deadly circle, and in time one of his bullets must strike a vital spot, despite the clouds and darkness.

  • Having struck his victim in a vital spot, he had every reason to believe that it would disappear beneath the waves within a reasonable period.

  • It must get within three or four hundred yards or the torpedo would stand little chance of hitting the mark in a vital spot.

  • As already said, the submarine was forced to attain an advantageous position before it could discharge its torpedo; it was its favourite practice to approach to within a few hundred yards in order to hit its victim in a vital spot.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abdomen white; alum water; chemical examination; clean shirt; commissioners were; criminal causes; crowned king; differ from; few miles; given here; green colour; many members; pointing upward; quelque chose; then allowed; this strange; vital action; vital energy; vital force; vital importance; vital phenomena; vital power; vital principle; vital spot; vital statistics; would present