All 8 Uses of
impact
in
The War of the Worlds
- An enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away.†
Chpt 1.2
- No doubt its impact had caused a flash of fire.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- The ringing impact of trucks, the sharp whistle of the engines from the junction, mingled with their shouts of "Men from Mars!"†
Chpt 1.8
- It struck the tower of Shepperton Church, smashing it down as the impact of a battering ram might have done, swerved aside, blundered on and collapsed with tremendous force into the river out of my sight.†
Chpt 1.12
- Dense black smoke was leaping up to mingle with the steam from the river, and as the Heat-Ray went to and fro over Weybridge its impact was marked by flashes of incandescent white, that gave place at once to a smoky dance of lurid flames.†
Chpt 1.12
- It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.†
Chpt 1.15
- I touched the curate's leg, and he started so violently that a mass of plaster went sliding down outside and fell with a loud impact.†
Chpt 2.2
- The earth all round it had splashed under that tremendous impact—"splashed" is the only word—and lay in heaped piles that hid the masses of the adjacent houses.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(impact as in: her impact on foreign policy) influence or effect