NOUN | a shower of sparks | showers of sparks | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- There was a spectacular scene when the roof fell in, sending a shower of sparks heavenwards.
- Should this happen, a small shower of sparks was released from the contender's vest.
- Towards the end, one crow breaks a light on the ceiling with its wings and the band performs in a shower of sparks.
- When a flintlock was fired it sprayed a shower of sparks forwards from the muzzle and another sideways out of the flash-hole.
- Pressing a flint against the disk produced a shower of sparks and dim illumination.
- Tinder is a finely divided, open material which will begin to glow under a shower of sparks.
- Like the earlier snaplock and later flintlock, the snaphance drives flint onto steel to create a shower of sparks to ignite the priming powder in the pan, the flash partly passing through the touch hole into the barrel where it ignites the main charge (propellant).
- When Alliot moved back to the racing line, Brundle had nowhere to go and hit the wall in a shower of sparks.
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