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  • adjective operating at high speed

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Examples

  • The invisible and high-velocity light waves failed to bore into him.

    A SON OF THE SUN 2010

  • The guides recommended 3-inch No. 2 shot for ducks, 3 or 31 ⁄ 2-inch BBs for geese, with many of them noting that high-velocity loads traveling 1450 fps or more kill the best.

    Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey) 2009

  • Oregon-Auburn has the potential to be a dazzling, high-velocity game, but this has been a queasy season for big-time college football — even by big-time-college-football standards.

    A Game That Couldn't Arrive Soon Enough Jason Gay 2011

  • It was a perfectly good leg, all except for a few inches of bone near the thigh which had been shattered to countless fragments by a wobbling, high-velocity American bullet.

    Mexico's Army and Ours 2010

  • Armed with an M16, Pantano was actually ejected from the Marines for desecrating the two corpses by emptying two full clips of sixty high-velocity bullets into their limp bodies and leaving an ugly hand-painted sign on the mutilated cadavers.

    Michael Carmichael: Imam Rauf In Chapel Hill: What's Right With America Michael Carmichael 2011

  • There was one range in Atlanta we went to that had a high-velocity trap with chronograph.

    Some Rifle Barrels are Faster than Others 2009

  • The ultra-violet rays, and other high-velocity and invisible rays from the upper end of the spectrum, rip and tear through their tissues, just as the X-ray ripped and tore through the tissues of so many experimenters before they learned the danger.

    Chapter 32 2010

  • It was of the crash into his body of a high-velocity bullet.

    War 2010

  • There was one range in Atlanta we went to that had a high-velocity trap with chronograph.

    Some Rifle Barrels are Faster than Others 2009

  • He prays to God in some dim, dumb way, and vaguely imagines when he has been expedited from this sad world by a machete slash or bayonet thrust or high-velocity steel-jacketed bullet that all will be made square in that other world where God rules and where taskmasters are not.

    Mexico's Army and Ours 2010

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