Sentences with phrase «like gunshots»

Visitors wandered through the echoing rooms, flinching occasionally at what sounded like gunshots.

In most cases, pets ran away during events with loud and sporadic noises, like fireworks and thunderstorms, that sound like gunshots to the animals.

The steering becomes more acutely responsive, the suspension tightens its control of the 12C's mass, the engine punches harder and sooner, and the gearbox snaps home the up - and down - shifts like gunshots.

Jude Lenamon, a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said the fire alarm went off around 2:30 p.m.. That's when he heard what sounded like gunshots.

The system's main limitation is that YouTube strips metadata out of videos, says Goldberg, so it must rely on audio cues to sync videos — but this only works when there is a loud noise easily distinguishable from the background, like a gunshot.

And yet, I have the feeling this modest little 83 - minute comedy will reverberate like a gunshot in our national conversation about abortion — in part because of the casually irreverent aplomb with which Robespierre approaches this tinderboxiest of topics.

About midway through the film some of the moviegoers told the manager they heard a «popping» noise like a gunshot.

It sounds like a gunshot to teacher Lynette Trucco - Baier.

The van's size and lack of interior finishing means it echoes inside; when the doors lock as you drive off, the noise ricochets around the cabin like a gunshot.

Once you pass 3000 rpm the turbo kicks in and you're off like a gunshot, while the awd sticks the car to the road like glue.

«It sounded like a gunshot in the front seat,» Lodi said.

Press the start button and the engine fires up like a gunshot.

And then, Buffett recalled, «I heard a crack that sounded like a gunshot.»

But the next entry, Call of Juarez: The Cartel, was like a gunshot to the head.

It was a sound like a gunshot that seemed to come from deep... nearby.

And then with a loud humming and a backfire like a gunshot, the outboard motor quit.

One night I heard what sounded like a gunshot one evening.

So when Hogg heard a «pop» while sitting in an AP environmental science class around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, he told his teacher it sounded strangely like a gunshot.

Not exact matches

Nationally, 73 % of the $ 669 million in costs resulted from gunshot victims who were either uninsured or on public insurance like Medicaid.

To humanely probe the physics of gunshot wounds, and ultimately help police solve crimes and doctors save lives, researchers shoot bullets into inert, flesh - like substances.

Here's an example from the YouTube channel EffectiveAffect of what a gunshot simulation in gelatin looks like.

«I then heard 4 - 5 very loud gunshots coming from what sounded like it was outside in the general area of the football field (east end) between me and where the other units were located to the east of me,» wrote Deputy Michael Kratz.

When sounds of screams, cries, and gunshots poured through the speakers, all the political propaganda drilled into me at school, like «Without the Communist party, there would be no new China,» turned to dust.

Stories like these of kids dying from gunshot wounds are devastating, but, sadly, they aren't an anomaly.

In the future, policymakers could use this gunshot data to determine the effectiveness of policies like expanded police hiring and patrols.

Some suffered only minor shrapnel wounds, while others faced life - threatening gunshot wounds and blast injuries that required the entire group's efforts and critical rapid intervention like chest tubes to stabilize them.

There were a few gunshots and some like blood.

The opening quickly prepares the audience for the political unrest about to be exposed: An extended silence is disrupted by the explosive gunshot - like sounds of a typewriter slamming the date on the screen, a heightened sound effect suggestive of the many political careers that would be killed in the wake of the Washington Post's reporting.

The gunshot seems mostly like a mild inconvenience to our unstoppable hero, given the way he simply keeps his hand over the bloody wound.

Gunshots crackle, wood splinters and glass shatters, with Mann's frantic camera racing after the fugitives as they scramble into the woods like rats escaping from Christian Bale's sombre predator.

The Party is like a kind of one - act play by Simon Gray or Anthony Schaffer, which might be produced on stage as the second half of a double - bill — with an early piece by Stoppard before the interval, perhaps — so that the evening can end on a heartstoppingly loud gunshot before the curtain call.

But while many people may think that the action scene has moved on to other parts (mostly Thailand and South Korea, plus a mini-boom of excellent American direct - to - video films like «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» and its ilk), there's still a lot to offer from the once reigning king of cinematic punches and gunshots.

There is a pistol - packing store clerk, an angry Ed driving off to abandon H.I. and then coming back to get him, a speeding police car turning up at the store, a pack of neighbourhood dogs chasing H.I, and much more, all accompanied by the Banjo of Ben Freed and yodelling courtesy of John R. Crowder, and punctuated by the sounds of screaming bystanders and gunshot blasts that seem amplified to sound like cannons.

Former stuntman Chad Stahelski is back in the director's chair, and he knows his craft inside out: Every body blow lands hard, every gunshot roars like thunder.

I know what gunshots sound like,» says Rodriguez, who is getting her master's in the Learning and Teaching Program.

With the valves open, the race - car - like rasp is addictive, as are the gunshot pops and crackles on the overrun.

A wealth of writing tips in this post: «I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.»

From the book jacket: Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story — complete with violin, tobacco - filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.

Try finding some soothing music, or something on tv that doesn't involve loud noises like crashes or gunshots.

She could call the police, who have the authority to act in situations like these, but the outcome there is almost a foregone conclusion — a quick death, likely by gunshot.

They will not cower upon gunshots, like for example most Schutzhund - trained dogs would do.

Generally speaking, the approach to working on any kind of specific fear like this is to find a way to expose her to the sound of a gunshot at very low levels — either very far off in the distance, or on a CD or sound file that you could play in the house and adjust the volume as needed.

Looks like the president's new gun control measures didn't come soon enough for Cruz, the blind California sea lion pup that lost his eyesight to gunshot wounds.

For the Last of Us, gunshots had great depth, cluuarity and definition, but other games like Dynasty Warriors Xtreme Legends falls a bit short.

In games like Uncharted 2, dialogue, explosions, and gunshots were all defined and clear.

It's usually not a big issue as you won't die unless you take a lot of them, but due to the damage indicator being a «gunshot through glass» effect and some layers of dust, the screen gets obscured really quickly, whether you like it or not.

Glitches, like the aforementioned gunshot mentalism, do little to convince you of the game's composure.

I feel like the scream and the gunshot is less ominous compared to that guy bashing some poor schmucks brains out on tha...

Asus also included its Sonic Radar III software, which creates a radar overlay during gameplay and pinpoints where sounds, like enemy gunshots or footsteps.

Sounds like explosions, gunshots, and jet engine rumbles were all elevated to a much more realistic level with even greater dynamic impact.