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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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  • He glanced up sharply when Holly entered through the pneumatic double doors.†  (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)
  • Joe Magruder and Ronnie DuBay got the chainfall on the truck's pneumatic Step-Loader, and it whooshed gently down to the dirt driveway on a sigh of air.†  (source)
  • We were connected to the institutions that supported us by means of pneumatic tubes which ran under the streets of Chicago.†  (source)
  • The plastic cylinders were the kind you might find at a drive-through bank—the kind that shoot up and down the pneumatic tubes.†  (source)
  • You will receive pneumatic injections.†  (source)
  • When the street on your block is being repaired and the pneumatic drills are working all day, what does everyone complain of?†  (source)
  • A third nurse, a pneumatic black girl in pale pink, stands at the end of the table with her hands on her hips.†  (source)
  • The minister, a man of iron with tool-steel eyes and a delivery like a pneumatic drill, opened up with prayer and reassured us that we were a pretty sorry lot.†  (source)
  • Not in good shape—we've got him in a pneumatic bed with a round-the-clock watch and more instruments wired into him than you would believe.†  (source)
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