Sample Sentences for
pneumatic
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  • The stunner has a pneumatic-powered 'gun' that fires a steel bolt about seven inches long and the diameter of a fat pencil.  (source)
    pneumatic = using air
  • When they had arrived and were comfortably stretched out on the pneumatic sofas in Bernard's room, Helmholtz began again.  (source)
    pneumatic = relating to the use of air
  • Suddenly—with a pneumatic gasp—it gave so capriciously I stumbled.†  (source)
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  • Below them, the last stone ring turned and settled with a deep pneumatic hiss.†  (source)
  • It was an advanced weapon; the perforated cylinder that was the silencer was pneumatically snapped on, reducing the decibel count of a gunshot to a loud spit — but no more than a spit — the accuracy unaffected at close range.†  (source)
  • The white boys' second match opened with a pop—a pneumatic uppercut that whisked Big Chet's opponent into a childhood fear.†  (source)
  • We were connected to the institutions that supported us by means of pneumatic tubes which ran under the streets of Chicago.†  (source)
  • When the street on your block is being repaired and the pneumatic drills are working all day, what does everyone complain of?†  (source)
  • She paused halfway up the stairs and FLEX, the doors all slammed shut under the concentrated force she directed at them, the pneumatic door-closers snapping off.†  (source)
  • He rolled up the completed bundle of work and slid it into the pneumatic tube.†  (source)
  • He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.†  (source)
  • The children had oiled its works till it glided noiseless as a pneumatic bicycle, and answered to the helm as it had probably done long ago in its best days.†  (source)
  • You will receive pneumatic injections.†  (source)
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