This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on. |
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The two foxes met broadside, spiralling inwards anticlockwise to touch whiskers before gliding apart in opposite directions. |
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His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion. |
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On the way to the shore a sea struck the lifeboat broadside and pitched it on its beam ends. |
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The ship then came broadside to, and each sea struck her on the side and threw her down on her beam ends. |
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The tracings turned up in a broadside published by John Taylor through the Nauvoo Neighbor on 24 June. |
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Coming in we shipped a sea on the quarter bow, which caused the boat to fill and turn on her broadside. |
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White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom. |
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Burchfield brought his guns to bear early in the Preface, with a broadside against the very book that he was editing. |
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He furiously pointed at Powell and launched a broadside of obscenities at the Secretary. |
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He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality. |
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Without hesitating La Buse sailed straight in, fired a broadside at the galleon, then boarded it, almost without resistance. |
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To do this they would have to come up alongside our ships leaving them exposed to a broadside from English cannons on our ships. |
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While the Roma may be quick, she only has two Class-Two forward mounts and two on each broadside. |
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Dali responded by printing a broadside, detailing his repudiation of the pavilion. |
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No other property gets taken away after 10 or 20 years, they wrote in a broadside, so why should books? |
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At around 50 yards I had placed a 325-grain.50 AE bullet into that pig standing broadside. |
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He was standing broadside at what I would estimate to be the second-closest shot I have ever made in the field, about 35 yards. |
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Any ill-advised surfer who turns a 9-or 10-foot longboard broadside into the tumble of a small wave knows the incredible power of moving water. |
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I lowered the rifle and saw that he had stopped and was standing broadside looking at us. |
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Asteroid brightnesses change every few hours as they spin, first brightening when they are broadside to us and fading when end-on. |
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What makes jack crevalle difficult to land is their tendency while resting to turn broadside to the angler. |
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A nice buck stepped out of the bush maybe 100 yards to my left and posed broadside, just like a picture in a magazine. |
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While the two ships were lying almost broadside to each other, gun crews of both sides kept blasting away. |
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Really, it was headed west on the Route 30 Interstate and it negotiated a lane change without signaling and it struck me broadside. |
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A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside. |
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Any cyclist crossing the roundabout from Stockton Lane to Heworth Green is in danger of being hit broadside on. |
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The lighters had not been moored and were drifting away from the beach on a fast current, coming broadside on to the shore. |
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Suddenly, Asedrisean heard a sword clatter to the earth and felt it land broadside on his chest. |
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Thousands of people flocked to the beachfront to watch last night's drama as heavy seas pounded the Oranjeland lying broadside on the beachfront. |
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He turned the animal broadside on to act as an anchor, and started to strip off his clothes. |
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A Thai coastal patrol boat caught broadside on by the waves had been tumbled over and over and finished hundreds of yards inshore. |
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The cachet on this cover, featuring a battleship with cage masts firing a broadside is a Stinemetts design. |
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You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop. |
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Norwegian version seems to be the port, broadside view showing her carrying 3 squaresails and 2 stuns'ls. |
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Their carrier sustained roughly forty broadside plasma hits and continued to move forward. |
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It was a broadside that left permanent scar tissue, but he was nothing if not a pachydermatous survivor. |
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It's a countryman's broadside against misguided townie sentiment, and proof that the turkey industry is far from black-and-White. |
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A canoe caught broadside to big waves and without realistic freeboard can be a big problem especially if the canoe isn't a buoyant. |
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Sadly, publisher Gordon Young spotted the broadside before the magazine went to press, and changed it. |
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He stands broadside to the road's line of travel, his front feet at the bottom of the cutbank where the road is in a trough sliced through a low hill to ease the grade. |
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We broadside off the backwash from a boulder as big as a house. |
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If they must, they could turn the wagons broadside to the wind and use them for cover, and their felted tents and sleeping sacks would keep them from freezing to death. |
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Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. |
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Remember that the ray will use their width broadside against the tide during the fight and you need the power to drag them back against the tide flow. |
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Weighill stayed at 1000-ft and watched five of the Naval vessels, which were about a mile from the beach and turned broadside on, proceeding to belch flame and destruction. |
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In my experience it seldom happens this way, but suddenly there was a magnificent Kudu bull standing broadside at about 50 yards, with a clear lane through the bush to him. |
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As the waiting travellers watched in frozen horror, it slewed crazily to one side as it carried on towards them, wrecking the parapets and heading broadside for the station. |
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Contemporary journalists described Reagan's address as an anti-Communist broadside, almost wholly ignoring the President's positive agenda of promoting human freedom. |
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The lead doe minced into an opening and paused broadside at 140 yards. |
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Nathan reports that no-one saw them after they'd dispersed into the crowd to distribute the Committee's broadside condemning Reverend Owings's capitalistic dogma. |
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We were southbound on a major interstate, completely oblivious to the fact that, within a matter of seconds, another vehicle nearly would broadside us. |
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Because warships mounted almost all their guns on the broadside, and were vulnerable to fire from ahead or astern, actions were usually fought in line ahead. |
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One tank barely ten meters from Blaine had taken a shot full broadside. |
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Lining up your shot while not giving your foe a chance at your broadside is a challenge, and having the biggest ship doesn't always ensure victory. |
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They printed a broadside in two colors on an early nineteenth-century Columbian handpress in an edition sufficient for all participants in the workshops to have one. |
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Mainly, his moral broadside is delivered against Australian refugee policy, which holds refugees in indeterminate detention, as if they had committed crimes against humanity. |
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I'd already drafted a bitter, bilious, bombastic broadside against the right-wing hacks on the Republican Court. |
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That broadside forced Romney to go a step or two further in defense of his plan than he usually prefers to go. |
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When the Sun, Earth, and Mercury are aligned, the orbital motion appears fast, because the Mercury is seen broadside on, like a vehicle passing an observer at the roadside. |
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Of course, in theory, the game animal is standing broadside, giving the hunter plenty of time to size it properly, select the correct aiming point, and press the trigger. |
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Animals don't come off assembly lines, nor do they obligingly stand around broadside while the hunter finds a solid rest and manipulates the power ring. |
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Tromp's flagship, Brederode, met Blake's flagship, Triumph, immediately, sending a broadside at mere metres distance. |
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Keep the ports closed, but clear away the port guns, and stand by for a broadside. Another two cable lengths and we have them. |
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These broadside ballads were in some cases newly fabricated but were mostly adaptions of the older verse narratives. |
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The garlands added nothing to the substance of the legend but ensured that it continued after the decline of the single broadside ballad. |
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They each fired a broadside across its bulwarks, killing several of its crew, and forcing its captain to surrender. |
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The original purpose of the broadsheet, or broadside, was for the purpose of posting royal proclamations, acts, and official notices. |
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The ironclads of this time consisted of broadside turret and the new casemate ironclads which protected the revolving turret. |
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When the third hit his ship, wounding some sailors, Tromp replied with a warning broadside from his flagship Brederode. |
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Steve Roud emphasizes that this is not to say that they originated in print, but that the broadside is a reliable and datable source. |
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The broadside pose of this spirited bull intertextually references his many brothers framed in similar broadside positions in innumerable agricultural publications. |
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Blackbeard fired a broadside of swan shot, nails and old iron at Maynard's sloop when it approached the pirate's ship Adventure, but the naval attack pressed ahead. |
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The prevailing tactical orthodoxy at the time involved manoeuvring to approach the enemy fleet in a single line of battle and then engaging broadside in parallel lines. |
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To bring up the propellant in good time to load for the next broadside, many safety doors were kept open that should have been shut to safeguard against flash fires. |
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With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increase in production of printed materials including the broadside as well as the competing penny dreadful. |
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Boss Martin O'Neill hammered Balde with a fine of two weeks' wages and slammed him with a verbal broadside for the off-the-ball forearm smash which flattened Fenwick. |
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Captain Chaloner Ogle of the HMS Swallow cornered Bartholomew Roberts in 1722 at Cape Lopez, and a fatal broadside from the Swallow killed the pirate captain instantly. |
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Teach rallied his men and the two groups fought across the deck, which was already slick with blood from those killed or injured by Teach's broadside. |
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Largely a paraphrase of the Gest, it also contains material revealing that the author was familiar with early versions of a number of the Robin Hood broadside ballads. |
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With the advent of printing came the Robin Hood broadside ballads. |
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