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Example sentences for "terrific crash"

  • Just as the clocks were striking a quarter to four, a great shell struck the Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parliament, bringing it down with a terrific crash.

  • There was then a pause, during which I could feel somebody or something was listening most earnestly, making sure, I thought, whether I was awake or not, and then a terrific crash on one of the top panels of the door.

  • I say knock, but it was really a crash--a terrific crash on the top panel of the door.

  • The words had scarcely left his lips when there was a terrific crash.

  • Almost as soon as he had spoken there was a terrific crash on the road about thirty yards away, and a shower of earth and stones bespattered the lorry and the men.

  • They heard a terrific crash, and saw a column of thick smoke.

  • Then as soon as it got dark they made up their minds that we were not to be allowed to sleep, and every fifteen to twenty minutes we had a terrific crash in the camp up to 5 a.

  • About 12 yards from the opening of my dugout one plunged into the ground with a terrific crash.

  • But at the very moment that hope departed he heard a great cheer, followed a moment later by a terrific crash of rifles and cannon.

  • Harry saw the six batteries of Jackson planted in a long row on the hard ground, and then open with a terrific crash on the defenders of the ridge.

  • The Southern batteries were pushed forward, and opened with a terrific crash on their enemy, telling the waiting people in Winchester that the battle had begun.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terrific crash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle ship; cathedral church; common parlance; fully illustrated; great consequence; had grown; heavy artillery; large groups; moment only; nice young; remained some; sharp edge; shine upon; terrific crash; terrific explosion; terrific speed; that none; tulip tree; universal validity; well qualified; when they had come; wooden horse; worship them; would remark