Blade screamed even louder when they finished their brief arc and turned back toward Jijo, plummeting like hail toward Festival Glade.

Without pre-charge the high voltage across the contactors and inrush current can cause a brief arc which will cause pitting of the contacts.

The match lit a brief arc over the cliff.

His arm lifted and the glowing end of his cigarette described a brief arc.

He spun around, his finger convulsed on the trigger of his weapon so that it erupted in a short burst, a brief deadly arc.

The days were still cruelly short, but nevertheless lengthening, with the sun's brief arc above the horizon extending with each day that passed.

The thing followed another brief arc through the air and flopped apologetically into the Vizier's bowl.

A conventional mercury-arc rectifier is started by a brief high-voltage arc within the rectifier, between the cathode pool and a starting electrode.

They steal a car and drive headlong south and he drives straight into the sea, leaving a brief arc of rainbow in the air from the spray.

He could only twist his head in a brief arc from side to side.