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  • She is having a tremendous impact on the art world.
  • In the beginning, it was the profanity that made an immediate impact.   (source)
    impact = impression or influence
  • His friend had told him it would make far more impact than him roaming from pillar to post.   (source)
  • You must know that space in state homes is at a premium these days, and with budget cuts, every StaHo is impacted—ours included.   (source)
    impacted = affected
  • Some of Louie's friends spoke to him about his drinking, but their words had no impact.   (source)
    impact = influence or effect
  • Harry's mouth fell open as the full impact of what he was seeing hit him.   (source)
    impact = effect
  • Go to college, get a law degree, and then you'll be able to have a real impact.   (source)
    impact = influence or effect
  • "I can see I never should have left you alone," Phineas went on before I could recover from the impact of finding him there, "Where did you get those clothes!"   (source)
    impact = effect
  • She pulls out her schedule and begins to work out how the delay will impact every event for the rest of our lives.   (source)
    impact = influence or effect
  • Anyone who claims that the older folks have a more difficult time in the Annex doesn't realize that the problems have a far greater impact on us.   (source)
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  • The Depression must have hit the white section of Stamps with cyclonic impact, but it seeped into the Black area slowly, like a thief with misgivings.   (source)
    impact = effect
  • But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately.   (source)
  • Janie soon began to feel the impact of awe and envy against her sensibilities.   (source)
    impact = influence or effect
  • They are not used to want, so any little disruption in supply makes an impact on them.   (source)
  • A hundred and ninety-six soldiers could not make any impact on the word shaker's tree.   (source)
  • The full impact of what I've done hits me.   (source)
  • The pain, the impact of final rejection.   (source)
    impact = effect
  • The full impact of what he's saying hits me.   (source)
    impact = influence or effect
  • My shoulder took the worst of the impact, whereas Finnick hit face-first and now his nose is gushing blood.   (source)
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  • She was killed instantly upon impact.
    impact = collision
  •   "The police told me you were the one with him when it happened."
      ... I'm standing on a track, watching the train barrel toward me, and I tense up and wait for the impact, the moment she asks what happened.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • I caught a steel cylinder full in the stomach. The impact knocked me to the ground.   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • Cause of death: sudden impact on occipital and parietal lobe of the posterior cerebral cortex, severed spine'—from falling off the tower.   (source)
  • A pause …. and then the sound of an impact, a short, explosive breath, and a muttered word in a gruff, low voice.   (source)
    impact = collision (when an object hits another)
  • The impact had cut your upper lip in two, clean down the middle.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • The impact with the hard-packed earth of the plain knocks the wind out of me.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • Then he hears a gun fire. He feels the impact, but not in his skin. The bullet embeds in his backpack.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • He landed faceup, so that his backpack absorbed the impact.   (source)
    impact = force of the collision
  • Men were drilled in preparing their planes for impact and equipping themselves for postcrash survival.   (source)
    impact = collision
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  • The impact threw me backward into Our Lady.   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane down to reduce the impact.   (source)
  • He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • The legs were still falling, and each impact pulled the dangling trunk further down.   (source)
    impact = collision (when two objects collide or crash)
  • He backs away just as Jakub's foot connects with his ribs, then exaggerates the impact by rolling and heaving and clutching his chest.   (source)
    impact = force of the hit
  • My knuckles sting from the impact.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • Then came silence and calm, as if the impact had paralyzed the sky.   (source)
  • Meg rushed at the man imprisoned in the column, but as she reached what seemed to be the open door she was hurled back as though she had crashed into a brick wall. ... Meg was so sick and dizzy from the impact that she could not answer.   (source)
  • He knew that if he and Alyss didn't hit the water with as little impact as possible, it would be like landing on a sheet of diamond and they'd be killed.   (source)
    impact = force (from an object hitting another)
  • As Kit moved behind her the astonishment of the assembled townspeople met her with the impact of a gathering wave.   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • He heard the impact of bullet on flesh and bone, felt Newt's body jerk, then fall onto the street.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • All at once the thunder struck. Instead of the dull boom there was a point of impact in the explosion.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • Alai took the shock of impact and helped Ender make a fairly gentle landing against the wall.   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • The coyote-man raised his whip, there was a long moment of expectancy, then a swift movement, the whistle of the lash and its loud flat-sounding impact on the flesh.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body.   (source)
  • A whistling, the sound of an impact, the intake of breath from a crowd.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • The impact sent shockwaves of displaced air reverberating throughout the room.   (source)
    impact = collision (when two objects collide or crash)
  • Faruqi had said: The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • He heard a cracking sound as the sky crashed to earth with a violent impact that shook the ground.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • We hear him hit, the air leaving his body on impact, and then the mutts attack him.   (source)
  • The impact of a tranq bullet is more effective than any detonator.   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • The impact makes the wound in my right shoulder burn like it got stuck with a hot poker.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • My knees ache, and the impact shudders through my body, making my shoulder throb.   (source)
  • My toes ache from the impact, and I hear a long, low groan.   (source)
  • His trident goes whizzing over my head and there's a sickening sound of impact as it finds its target.   (source)
  • The impact had rammed him into the waist gun mount and wedged him under it, facedown, with the raft below him.   (source)
    impact = hit
  • I'm going too fast to catch ahold and stay, but I can soften the impact, can fly off at an angle if I roll when I hit and use my feet .   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • My body tenses with hers; together we brace a hundred times for impact. It is a relief when the van finally leaves the road.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • He finds Blaine in the grassy commons between the dining hall and the dormitories, being put through a regimen of calisthenics with his unit. Blaine does them oddly, putting as little force into them as possible, making all his moves low-impact.   (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
  • It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • I'd seen hundreds of shattered windshields in the junkyard, each one unique, with its particular spray of gossamer extruding from the point of impact, a chronicle of the collision.   (source)
    impact = collision (when two objects collide or crash)
  • Finally, a shell blew out the wall of the top turret, disintegrating on impact and shooting metal into Pillsbury's leg from foot to knee.   (source)
    impact = the hit
  • The splitting sound, the thunderous impact, the splintering and bits of branches showering him, all had happened when the huge tree crashed to earth.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • On impact, the oversized spider bit an unhealthy gob of synthetic flesh off the assassin and chomped at its vital circuitry.   (source)
    impact = the hit
  • Dozens of black roses sprouted from the point of impact, their thorny stems wrapping themselves around Genevieve, pricking her skin and binding her fast.   (source)
  • I clench my teeth to keep from crying out, though pain from the impact went all the way down my spine.   (source)
    impact = collision
  • Heat races through my body, driving the weakness out of me, and I smack him so hard my knuckles burn with the impact.   (source)
  • Then I throw myself at Molly, hoping the force of the impact will surprise her and knock her down, but before I can do any damage, cold hands close around my waist.   (source)
  • In the impact extrusion method, the metal is struck at high velocity and forced into a mold.
    impact = hit
  • From this stupor he was aroused to a more immediate sense of reality by the impact on his cheek of a well-aimed packet of chewing-gum.   (source)
  • An oath from Perrault, the resounding impact of a club upon a bony frame, and a shrill yelp of pain, heralded the breaking forth of pandemonium.   (source)
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  • The impact brought him to his senses.†   (source)
  • Did my letter really make that little of an impact?†   (source)
  • What we must do is to minimize the impact of your actions.†   (source)
  • Chuck yelped at the impact, dancing backwards and shaking one hand.†   (source)
  • The impact of the bullet knocked him off his feet.†   (source)
  • After each shot, we adjusted the scope, aligning the crosshairs with where the BB impacted the target.†   (source)
  • Brad and I sat on our bed in a state of shock, reeling from the impact of our discovery.†   (source)
  • So tell me, what impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?†   (source)
  • My robot landed on one knee, and the impact shook the ground.†   (source)
  • A stunning impact.†   (source)
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  • Shay rolled back at the impact, spinning over the railing.†   (source)
  • Drug laws in particular have had a huge impact on the number of women sent to prison.†   (source)
  • Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him.†   (source)
  • The impact knocks the wind out of me and I wheeze, struggling to breathe again.†   (source)
  • The impact actually made him stagger two steps backward.†   (source)
  • Thomas could feel the silent impact of the explosions, each one rattling his skull, shaking his bones.†   (source)
  • "You somehow get more of an impact when you're right in the pit near the orchestra.†   (source)
  • The next day I faced the full impact of the sign.†   (source)
  • After a week, a faint glow appeared on the gills and the tips of the fins, but it wasn't enough to make much of an impact in a bar.†   (source)
  • From here, I'd splatter on impact.†   (source)
  • Compresses on impact.†   (source)
  • All at once the full impact of what we had been told hit us.†   (source)
  • Her arms ached from the impact.†   (source)
  • The impact knocks the wind out of me.†   (source)
  • This was a guy who'd been drinking a bottle of beer when one car hit another; he'd been the driver of one of the cars, he said, and the bottleneck had broken in his mouth on impact—he had lacerations on the roof of his mouth, and his gums were slashed, and the broken neck of the bottle had pierced his cheek.†   (source)
  • The themes sound pretty much the same to me; this time it's "Transitional Agriculture: Impact on Farmers and Bankers."†   (source)
  • Then there was impact …. and blackness.†   (source)
  • I've heard Coach Warner talk to Dad enough to know he's counting on Erik to be an impact player, a star.†   (source)
  • With each impact, the thousands of keys in their cabinets quiver on their pegs.†   (source)
  • The impact knocks me off my feet.†   (source)
  • The wood groaned with the impact, and we all cheered.†   (source)
  • And I do think that it's also had an impact on her surfing.†   (source)
  • Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.†   (source)
  • "Heads up," he says to the grasshoppers that whir away at the impact.†   (source)
  • We need them edible after impact.†   (source)
  • Whether its contents would survive the impact was another issue—but at least I'd find out what was inside.†   (source)
  • These are frightening questions, and if you are thinking about such matters, they require your full attention, and the orphans were so immersed in thinking about them that they didn't realize that Stephano was about to collide with another automobile until the moment of impact.†   (source)
  • My blessings also mean having the opportunity to meet so many people who had a positive impact on my life.†   (source)
  • [sound of initial impact] 1:42:28:65.†   (source)
  • The impact took the breath out of him.†   (source)
  • The chilling words didn't have half as much impact on me as the familiar voice that uttered them.†   (source)
  • "The impact that would have on science is inconceivable," he said.†   (source)
  • … Revised impact time fifteen seconds, fellas….†   (source)
  • The impact ruptured your spleen.†   (source)
  • Because Woodall had already received the newspaper's money, however, this act was purely symbolic and had almost no impact on his actions on the mountain.†   (source)
  • DRACO: Face it—his celebrity impacts upon you all.†   (source)
  • With each impact more and more splinters popped from the fresh floor.†   (source)
  • Enrique and Lourdes disagree about the impact of this on the United States.†   (source)
  • I think you're old enough now, and the fact is, now that I can't have any more children, this will have a tremendous impact on your life, and it's only fair I tell you.†   (source)
  • It slashed out with the scarred hammer, its double head now shapeless and splintered with countless impacts.†   (source)
  • The driver of the truck wasn't hurt, but both of Tim's parents died on impact.†   (source)
  • A Mack truck hit my body and my shoulders rolled with the impact.†   (source)
  • Our friends and neighbors resented not only the school closure but most especially the negative economic impact our presence in that school had on our community.†   (source)
  • Her powerful muscles rippled as they absorbed the shock of impact.†   (source)
  • I'm a big believer in the psychological impact of music.†   (source)
  • My stepfather's final admonition to me went unheeded as I absolved myself of all responsibility and stayed out of the house as much as possible, thus avoiding the emotional impact of watching Mommy suffer.†   (source)
  • But this second bumpy touchdown didn't have the same impact as our first arrival.†   (source)
  • A snapped tree suddenly fell not ten feet before us, and its impact bounced us off our feet.†   (source)
  • The impact pushes both Henri and me backwards.†   (source)
  • Impact probes with tailored viruses.†   (source)
  • "Of course," he said, and his tone mirrored mine, "we have to be careful not to impact the environment with injudicious hunting.†   (source)
  • The impact was so violent, our search-and-rescue parties later found gun barrels snapped in half among the bodies.†   (source)
  • No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people.†   (source)
  • The ball ripped through his chestnut-colored hair, cut the skin, penetrated the skull, and because of the angle of Lincoln's head at the moment of impact, made a diagonal tunnel through Lincoln's brain.†   (source)
  • But her face, slowly, was replaced in my mind with a flash of Rogerson driving, looking for me, his face changing and eyes growing darker, angry, the way they looked right before impact.†   (source)
  • THE FAIR HAD A POWERFUL and lasting impact on the nation's psyche, in ways both large and small.†   (source)
  • The impact of the water broke the rubber-enclosed vacuum, and the goggles came loose.†   (source)
  • That's a lot of impact for one little piece of shrapnel.†   (source)
  • Mae softened the impact.†   (source)
  • Second, he didn't know how much impact a radio ' and windshield wipers would have on the people in the car.†   (source)
  • The GI's arms and legs flung apart from the impact of the blast.†   (source)
  • I lunged to hug him, and he grunted at the impact of my embrace; but I was too happy to be cautious.†   (source)
  • The impact bent the casement and shattered the wooden nose cone.†   (source)
  • The whole platoon felt the impact.†   (source)
  • "Owl" she says, twisting away from the impact.†   (source)
  • Most of all, I am concerned about its impact on the nation's children.†   (source)
  • It looks like the night's sleep had little impact on her.†   (source)
  • I look at him now, at his handsome face, at his almond-shaped eyes and cinnamon color, and it's hard to believe how many impacted layers of hurt and abuse these features conceal.†   (source)
  • Listen, Mobe, Sarah Byrnes has had a big impact on you, and her name comes up so often lately that I feel I know her.†   (source)
  • My mother's death had a terrible impact on me.†   (source)
  • The impact stung her feet, but she didn't fall.†   (source)
  • It is, after all, important to form a clear view of them both technically and in terms of their impact on general morale.†   (source)
  • The thing broke on impact.†   (source)
  • The impact of her words almost crumbled all of Mack's reserve.†   (source)
  • The zeppelin was so close to the ground that Hugo barely felt the impact.†   (source)
  • Since our calories had been moderated all week long, last night at the Banquet we could eat everything in front of us without significant impact.†   (source)
  • I mope around the house to echoes of Nathaniel's mad taunts, but their impact is blunted.†   (source)
  • The type he preferred was just the opposite: those skinny little tadpoles that no one bothered to turn around and look at in the street, who seemed to disappear when they took off their clothes, who made you feel sorry for them when their bones cracked at the first impact, and yet who could leave the man who bragged the most about his virility ready for the trashcan.†   (source)
  • The man at the captain's left leaped without warning toward Paul, met the flashing impact of his own captain's knife in his chest.†   (source)
  • In that instant, Susan grasped the impact this disease would have on the rest of Craig's life.†   (source)
  • Impact driver.†   (source)
  • It was also the first time we realized how Colton's encounter with his sister in heaven would impact people on earth.†   (source)
  • He shot at me with everything he had, and I braced for impact.†   (source)
  • Its progress, its impact, its outcome, its meaning—these were in the hands of people.†   (source)
  • So we usually say that the impact of the black ball is the cause of the white ball's starting to move.†   (source)
  • We can scare the world, and if we do this project right, we can have a global impact.†   (source)
  • Alexander has seen that he has a chance to make an impact and has allied himself with Birger.†   (source)
  • Writing it has been a way of coming to terms with the impact these years have had on my entire life.†   (source)
  • But nothing seems to have any impact on John, which I suppose brings us right back to his source problem.†   (source)
  • The impact jerked my legs loose, my hands my only attachment to the ladder.†   (source)
  • It was an old half-dead mongrel, brittle-boned and mangy, and the impact, as it met the car, was little more than what a bird might make.†   (source)
  • Any "suggestion" from Aga Hakim to Moody carried the impact of a direct order.†   (source)
  • The impact of the two bodies threw the lion off balance.†   (source)
  • At the shot, she would pretend to jolt under the imagined impact, then reveal the bullet caught by her yellow rat teeth.†   (source)
  • It is hard to explain the impact it had on us.†   (source)
  • That he's made an impact.†   (source)
  • The impact shakes something loose in my mind.†   (source)
  • He respected Luma and the impact she'd had on his life.†   (source)
  • Then he'd babble on and on about teenage anger and angst being normal but that only I could choose how it would have an impact on my life …. blah …. blah …. and since this was an "emergency" he'd probably want me to draw something that represented my inner child or whatever.†   (source)
  • The passenger side took most of the impact.†   (source)
  • Liam stumbled back a few steps at impact, his wet hair clinging to his cheeks, longer than I remembered.†   (source)
  • As she worked, there came a curious clinking sound, and then the dull impact of a heavy fall; and when she dragged the bar loose, swung the door wide and peered into the gloom, there was nothing but the silvery reach of the great spring, and beyond it a prone figure in russet riding-clothes.†   (source)
  • I knew I was free to change myself—free to feel the entire impact of what I was doing.†   (source)
  • In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.†   (source)
  • A good teacher's impact was nearly as distinctive as a cheater's.†   (source)
  • The impact of the disaster even reached Europe, where nearly one million dollars in cash was raised.†   (source)
  • The people on the outside who wrote and visited every week and traveled long distances to come and tell me that I wasn't forgotten, that I wasn't alone, had a tremendous impact on my life.†   (source)
  • That was a more painful impact, but I didn't stop.†   (source)
  • Brace for impact!†   (source)
  • The wagon bed, old and rotten, had burst upon impact.†   (source)
  • "The rape per se didn't impact me so much," she says.†   (source)
  • But it was radio that had the greatest impact.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, al Qaeda taught Aidid's militia to change the detonators on their RPGs from impact detonators to timed detonators.†   (source)
  • The visceral impact of her beauty is more powerful than any word or deed.†   (source)
  • Each car has a large rubber bumper all around it, which prolongs the impact and diffuses the force of the collision.†   (source)
  • Baking scones wasn't going to have that impact.†   (source)
  • Round impacted, bike kept going.†   (source)
  • Adam woke up less than an hour later, thinking he heard the impact of artillery fire.†   (source)
  • So even by the beginning of 1978 I could feel the real impact of Deng Xiaoping's reforms.†   (source)
  • Greg Mortenson is fighting a personal war on terror that has an impact on all of us, and his weapon is not guns or bombs, but schools.†   (source)
  • They could hear the deep thud of the impact.†   (source)
  • Freddie's giggle was soft, but his teeth strengthened its impact.†   (source)
  • It had little impact on the subterranean enemy.†   (source)
  • If something is going to have an impact, I direct it elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I catch the full force of his fist against my cheek and my balance is off, so the impact spins me face-first into the corner of the nightstand next to the bed.†   (source)
  • They held their breath, but heard no further impacts.†   (source)
  • I was blinking back the impact of what was going through my mind.†   (source)
  • A large part of the middle class rejoiced at the military coup, because to them it signaled a return to law and order, to the beauty of tradition, skirts for women and short hair for men, but they soon began to suffer from the impact of high prices and the lack of jobs.†   (source)
  • His agony was terrifying, the piercing, unearthly howl with which he split the moonlit dark vibrating in its own impact for seconds afterward like a devastating shock.†   (source)
  • And the other rankness, as you have probably guessed, came from his impacted bowels.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes for the impact, but it never came.†   (source)
  • I would also to thank the many people who have had a positive impact on my life, especially my loving mother and my family.†   (source)
  • Other than the music, Kenyan culture made no impact on me.†   (source)
  • Overall impact on war: negligible.†   (source)
  • The victim will be able to tell the offender about the crime's physical, emotional, and financial impact.†   (source)
  • I could have softened the impact.†   (source)
  • When a second fastball impacted his bottom, Angel winced.†   (source)
  • Nothing I have ever experienced, or have experienced since, has had such a powerful impact on what I believe.†   (source)
  • No impact.†   (source)
  • In spite of the array of important men beside him, and despite the posture of humility and meekness which made him seem smaller than the others (although he was physically larger), Dr. Bledsoe made his presence felt by us with a far greater impact.†   (source)
  • SUDDENLY, with the impact of an explosion, news of a Loyalist plot to assassinate the commander-in-chief burst upon the city.†   (source)
  • The years tumbled past and seemed to have little impact on her, at least on the outside, but on the inside she was beginning to weaken, to fail.†   (source)
  • The impact of the message detracts from the subtext.†   (source)
  • The thought was vaporized by the shuddering impact of Gulliver's hindquarters.†   (source)
  • The two men grunted from the impact.†   (source)
  • I held my breath and waited for impact.†   (source)
  • And she braced herself for the impact of the large callused hand that was coming toward her face.†   (source)
  • The impact was so sharp that it hurt.†   (source)
  • Let me single out just two: Daniel O'Connell, who fought against injustice to extend a franchise restricted by religious prejudice; Charles Stewart Parnell, whose statue stands today in the House of Commons and whose political skills and commitment to social justice made such an impact in that House.†   (source)
  • The impact nearly jarred the weapon out of his hand, but Max held firm.†   (source)
  • That outlook may have had an impact on my ability as a teammate back then.†   (source)
  • And then you casually mention that you got a job that starts today, not that my life could possibly be impacted by that at all.†   (source)
  • The impact is overwhelming.†   (source)
  • Before I can even register the impact, the thick tank shatters.†   (source)
  • It is the social impact of a product that must be considered.†   (source)
  • They thickened her voice and gave it impact.†   (source)
  • This is why the impact will be more profound.†   (source)
  • Realizing his mistake too late, the VMI forward lunged wildly toward me, but I moved my left shoulder between him and the ball, braced myself for his impact, and spun the ball softly, gently against the backboard.†   (source)
  • All it takes to release the power is a small impact.†   (source)
  • The cross-examination by Holabird, who pointed out that Gibbs was not an authority on African languages and in fact did not even speak any African languages, seemed to make an impact with Judson.†   (source)
  • But I'm not just making this commitment because of Clay; his life and death have certainly had a huge impact on me, but the commitments I've made tonight are about me and God—and that's pretty much it.†   (source)
  • The enemy had notched its bullets for maximum impact, and the firing distances were extremely short.†   (source)
  • What impact that difference had on morale and fighting effectiveness is hard to say.†   (source)
  • That you do not know at the moment of impact how far-reaching the shock waves will be.†   (source)
  • My deep brain was still convinced I would be crushed by the impact.†   (source)
  • 9-inch-deep crater from the impact.†   (source)
  • Regis watched the spectacle as the opposing sides volleyed back and forth, but the halfling's own credibility had been destroyed, and he had no impact on the rest of the meeting.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel any pain, but the impact of the bullet knocked me off balance, and I went sprawling face-first onto the brick sidewalk.†   (source)
  • They say she was hit with the impact of a couple of tons.†   (source)
  • It really made an impact on both of them.†   (source)
  • His frustrated, twelve-year-old self couldn't have imagined how much those words would impact my life.†   (source)
  • He probably added it for impact, to make himself more important.†   (source)
  • Impact at Lahaina Roads, that target in Hawaii.†   (source)
  • This may be the worst impact of the disappearance of manufacturing work.†   (source)
  • Then she removed the 9mm round, misshapen from the impact with the clavicle but still in one piece.†   (source)
  • Another man helped out at the camp who made a big impact on Willie during this time.†   (source)
  • Time to impact?†   (source)
  • No matter how hard I tried to regard them with scientific objectivity, I could not resist the impact of their individual personalities.†   (source)
  • Glass tinkled; she felt the impact afterward, the firm, cool glass, breaking through.†   (source)
  • It would be easy to get lost in this place of theirs, where the past, even a few hours before, suddenly lost its impact and seemed like a vague dream compared to these sensations: the motion, vibrations of wheels against the road, the warmth of beer in the belly, and the steel cab snug around them.†   (source)
  • But I credit it ultimately because poetry can make an order as true to the impact of external reality and as sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being as the ripples that rippled in and rippled out across the water in that scullery bucket fifty years ago.†   (source)
  • James turned up his volume and the impact was increased.†   (source)
  • "I don't like that word," I had to say in my bad, small-person's voice that makes no impact.†   (source)
  • In the car were several pigskin bags, locks burst by the impact, and a pocketbook.†   (source)
  • There was only one event that could have made such an impact upon humanity.†   (source)
  • Her fingers claw the loamy earth of the wooded hillside upon which he lies underneath her, she feels the dirt impacting itself beneath her fingernails.†   (source)
  • Such is the impact of the sequoias on the human mind.†   (source)
  • The impact staggered us momentarily.†   (source)
  • The words have a sharp impact on BRADY.†   (source)
  • The impact of the water was like being smacked on the bottom by a two-by-four, then I was sinking, then—my God!†   (source)
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