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    1. There's an asteroid coming that's going to leave a crater the size of Lake Entisonggas somewhere on what may be the only planet we humans have left, and you're still chasing around after that damned shuttlecraft


    2. up at that damned moon and saw that his wife sat there, in a little crater all of her own,


    3. He looked up at that damned moon and saw that his wife sat there, in a little crater all of her own, looking exactly as she had done in the days before the fevers sunk her cheeks and turned her into an old crone before her time


    4. above the rim of the crater, a difference made,


    5. It’s a small island, but even a six mile ride in what is essentially a hanging roller coaster thru soaring towers along the crater rim was almost starting to get old when the car took a turn and launched straight out over the crater wall, a thousand feet above the water and a mile from the inner ring island


    6. ‘Get down there!’ Ozzie said, pushing Chrissie, reluctantly standing at the edge of the crater


    7. Each one was large enough to cause quite a crater when it hit and he published this as a plea that it be watched so that when it did move people could be warned


    8. The northern quarter, having been decimated by the Destroyer, continued to lie in ruins for the general population refused to near the blackened crater where the city's greatest monuments once stood


    9. When it passed there was a gaping hole in Lock Core a mile wide, the mountain itself had melted into a crater the size of the Brother Moon, and at its center stood a boy


    10. With a thought she was there, at its heart, finding herself within a smoking crater carved deep within the earth

    11. "You're right, it's not just the crater they make that causes the harm


    12. Instantly, its head crumbled, leaving a smoking crater where it once had been


    13. Even the Brother Moons stood sentry over the Gate; first Harbos arose in the eastern sky, the massive crater on its face like a watchful eye, followed shortly by his little brother, Minos, just barely peeking over the Gorian Range to the north


    14. Ash had healed the crater Liam had left in my heart


    15. As they got nearer they could make out that it was mostly submerged in its own trough-shaped crater


    16. Their mood improved when they finally reached the edge of the crater and could clearly see the outline of the crashed ship


    17. Digging into their final dregs of energy reserves, they walked the last two hundred metres along the crater bottom to the ship itself


    18. The whole vessel was lying at an angle within the crater and all four of the huge landing feet had collapsed under the force of the impact


    19. The entire mid-section appeared to have been bent towards the inside of the crater


    20. The base itself was well hidden from view somewhere beneath a crater, he was sure he’d never have found it unaided

    21. There were two vehicles parked in a crater converted into an enclosed bay but with a projected holo-field, making it seem like a normal crater


    22. I once more looked through the shield at the crater that now marked the spot where the sniper had gone to ground and I thought that Aaron was right this was the best way to do it although it rankled with me that I couldn’t take them on just to show I was as good as they were


    23. We went to ground in the first shell hole and we kept our heads down until we could make a dash to the crater with the Lewis gun in it


    24. “They have made it to the first shell crater now their having a go for the next one


    25. We dropped short of it into the grass and crawled forward just to make sure that no Huns were waiting for us in there, we crept up on the hole and peered over the rim of the crater


    26. ” The Major nodded in understanding I made my way to the top of the crater to keep watch saying


    27. I slid down to the bottom of the hole again and saw Ted and the Major talking quietly I didn’t want to disturb them and so I crawled up to the backside of the crater and looked back towards our own trenches


    28. Nevertheless it blew me out of the crater so high into the air that I could have shook hands with god if such a being could exist amongst all this slaughter


    29. I looked around and saw Ted Wallace on the opposite side of the crater I made my way across him he was led against the craters side


    30. It was as hot as Hades in the crater now and the smell of spilt blood and flesh was becoming overpowering and the flies were gathering again knowing they had a good feast waiting for them

    31. After finishing we tried to stay in the shaded side of the crater we laid back against it and tried to conserve our energy as the day wore on


    32. I crawled up to the top of the crater to look out and I noticed that even the Germans seemed to have given up now in the heat and only shot if any of our lads tried to make a run for it


    33. I slipped back down into the bottom of the crater and checked my Mauser that I had found outside the last shell hole where the explosion had thrown it I had also managed to find some of my ammo but only about twenty rounds which I had put in the Officers haversack


    34. I lay back against the side of the crater bone tired so I shut my eyes but the visions that assailed me were straight from hell so I quickly opened them again


    35. I motioned him to the bottom of the crater and told him we would be going in about half an hour and then very carefully we lit a couple of fags cupping the glowing ends in our hands to hide the tell tale glow from the end of them


    36. We crawled up to the edge of the crater and then boosted ourselves over the lip and into the grass then we bent double and began to run towards our lines


    37. I checked Bert out and I was glad to find out that he was still breathing we had moved Bert up and we left him lying on the side of the crater while Sam and I moved to the bottom where I took out my cigarette case out and offered him one


    38. I sat at the bottom of the crater smoking incessantly and wondering what we were going to do next


    39. I left the pair of them there in the crater both locked in their own worlds and they never even knew that I had gone


    40. I slipped over the edge of the crater into my world the real one of slaughter and death as I belly crawled through the grass towards the next shell hole

    41. “It will be no picnic getting back to that shell hole now even if it is behind us in fact it will not be safe at all listen?” I heard the German machine guns and artillery open up for the second day running the sun was up now and it was getting warm in the crater


    42. I thanked them and then waited for the artillery strafe to pass over the top of us as it did I slipped over the lip of the crater the last thing I heard was Mickey and Fred wishing me good luck and god speed


    43. I could hear shells exploding again as the strafe started up again and then I could see Fred form the crater shooing me on my way so I lifted my hand towards him in salute


    44. There was a massive explosion as a Howitzer shell fell in the crater earth bits if my friends and a lot of smoke and flames shot up into the sky


    45. “I challenged them saying what the fuck are you doing and then when they turned round I saw that it was that little shite Stanley and Tommy Smith I had left my rifle in the crater when I went and these two both fired at the same time and I took a bullet in the gut and one in the chest


    46. I grabbed Sam said farewell to Bert and then pushing him up we slipped over the lip of the crater we had to press on before the evening strafe began and the illumination flares lit up the evening


    47. The ground shook as shock waves emanated from the blast crater throughout the entirety of the USA


    48. On the floor of the cavern, shaped like a small volcano with a crater in the centre, presumable made of stone sat a handle rising up from the centre


    49. The base was built into a side of a crater


    50. rock that was in the volcano crater and how it made all the domestic vegetables much larger














































    1. ” I climbed up and looked out scanning the churned up shell cratered ground in front of me I thought to myself that there are hundreds of places that a sniper might conceal himself


    2. Having dismounted the craft she looked around at a sharply defined cratered landscape, half-expecting Darangi solders to jump out from behind one of the craters and accost her


    3. In the cratered field below us, demons had gathered—hundreds of


    4. The disguise of a barren, cratered moon faded slowly away like grey mist, revealing a shiny, black, metallic globe beneath


    5. A few bombs also cratered the two landing strips, making them temporarily unusable


    6. were lost, our beloved Mu cratered by fire and sent to a watery tomb


    7. In the Transylvanian forest, an eerie light filtered through the close knit trees and cast long shadows onto the cratered road


    8. Cratered to hell


    9. The entire body had been littered with dents and dings, the quarter panels cratered with rusted-out holes, right front fender bashed in by a stubborn tree or telephone pole, engine caked with grease and grime, interior drenched in the rancid aroma of old cigarette smoke and stale cologne and Josh didn’t even want to think about what else


    10. The cratered but otherwise featureless surface of the dark

    11. The men’s feet were cratered with quarter-sized salt sores


    12. Twenty feet behind the guy’s head the wall instantly cratered, the size of a punch bowl, and a ghastly split second later the contents of the guy’s brain pan arrived to fill it, with a wet slap, all red and gray and purple


    13. The cratered ruins where the Second Church of the Holy Pasquale of the Faithful of Zion had once stood were far too big to conceal, especially since the apartments of so many bishops and archbishops overlooked them


    14. I might change my mind because they have cratered but even my contrarian tendencies can’t be kicked into action by companies that, at best, squandered the opportunities of one of the biggest, longest commodity bull markets ever


    15. “While listening to Dark Side of the Moon?” I motioned to the cratered surface out beyond the dome, stretching to the horizon in all directions around us


    16. Its debt cratered to about half its face value, which is the point at which distressed investors became involved


    17. Eventually, InfoSpace’s stock cratered, and a dollar invested at its peak price was worth only three cents by 2005


    18. The most heavily cratered moon is Callisto, the outermost of Jupiter’s four large moons, an ancient relic whose surface is 100% covered with impact craters


    19. I watched the cratered road rise and fall, whirl its tail around the mountainside, counted the multicolored trucks packed with squatting men lumbering past


    20. We were driving down the cratered road that winds from Jalalabad to Kabul

    21. The cratered streets were flanked by little more than ruins of shelled buildings and abandoned homes


    1. After that, the F-4 jocks told any newsie dumb enough to listen that the heaviest casualties of the air war were caused by napalming beets and carrots, and cratering bridge approaches


    2. Impact cratering is also affected by


    3. Ren fires off from the grenade launcher cratering the sidewalk and blowing the sides of an SUV in on itself


    4. On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, remaining support for American involvement there was cratering


    1. and craters, watching their own blood sink down


    2. lying in dug outs and craters, watching


    3. There are two craters, Anna, I never knew that, and it is so close to the city!


    4. read as he walked, not slowing for the cracks and craters in the sidewalk


    5. “Over towards Noonitondow, the University there has an observatory with telescopes that would show it up much bigger than that, they’ll show craters on Narrulla that big


    6. He was filled with a sickening fear as he realised that each of the small craters was surrounded by cracks, cracks that were slowly spreading


    7. A video feed of the view outside did not give much away; at a glance the stars were static, the shadows – drawn in harsh contrast from craters – always seemed as fixed and sympathetically lifeless


    8. I turned and threw up on the craters side and then I started to shake and I thought that I would never be able to stop


    9. I looked around and saw Ted Wallace on the opposite side of the crater I made my way across him he was led against the craters side


    10. We jumped in and slid down the craters wall to the bottom it was then in the light from the flare that I saw Bert led there I scrambled over to him as I heard him say

    11. ” I moved over to them Lt Pearson was propped up against the craters side and I could see the field dressing that had been bandaged round his chest where he was wounded


    12. Having dismounted the craft she looked around at a sharply defined cratered landscape, half-expecting Darangi solders to jump out from behind one of the craters and accost her


    13. She knelt and probed the cold craters


    14. Next was a quick detour to Craters of the Moon National Monument


    15. The Henschel had to negotiate potholes, craters, and areas where pavement had been stripped away from the roadbed


    16. " The area had been bombed by the Americans during the war and some buildings were damaged or destroyed and bomb craters littered the area


    17. But hypothesis is a long way from proof, and there were no identifiable craters of an age consistent with, and at or near to the original site of his discovery


    18. I could see the craters and the seas


    19. carving out craters that would permanently scar


    20. Several bomb craters extended from the cleared areas into the jungle

    21. Its hull was covered with deeply engraved, hieroglyphic-like markings and appeared to have craters caused by small meteorites


    22. touching the moon, her nipples swollen and ridgid in the craters


    23. Small eruptions of gas from some craters,


    24. have been detected around craters, but the Moon does not have a


    25. resembles Earth's Moon, scarred by thousands of impact craters


    26. The floors of these craters remain in perpetual shadow, so the


    27. the dense atmosphere: craters smaller than 1


    28. rather like potatoes, riddled with craters and fractures, 19 km long and


    29. smoke rose from newly opened craters in the ground


    30. Was tall, his head had no ears, his complexion was as white as the face of the moon and with the same craters

    31. Leonardo was crawling under the cloak of sunflowers and daisies while the black magician was throwing fulminating beams that were falling down scratching the surrounding surface, leaving smoky craters of considerable size


    32. When Volcan and Petra brought their massive fists down upon the opaque spheres they cracked the rocky floor, forming smoking craters


    33. The resulting craters sent confusion throughout the ranks of the Stalactite Horde


    34. moon, in shades of grey, craters picked out in bold relief


    35. All hell broke loose as shells landed around us, making deep slushy craters in the earth


    36. Giovani’s face was like the surface of the moon full of deep pock marks and craters that his childhood and teenage acne created


    37. was able to make out the larger craters on the full moon


    38. The other planets in the system are covered with craters and pock marks from collisions with smaller objects


    39. Using Siri’s spears for walking aids, they struck out and within a couple of hours, they had reached the Bayuda Volcanic Field, an area of almost one-hundred volcanic craters, some rising to almost two hundred meters above the surrounding plane


    40. Although there had been no eruptions for over one-thousand years, the craters looked untouched by time, and the travellers could imagine explosions and flames erupting around them, without warning, at any moment

    41. There was more than twenty miles of this primeval looking landscape ahead of them and they were forced to spend one night amongst the craters


    42. Its key geological features were its giant craters formed during the birth of the planet and deserts of bright red sand and mountains


    43. He spread his arms like and soared towards the silver-brown moon of Flitin, covered with craters and canyons


    44. She also noticed and filmed what looked like six large bomb craters over what she knew to be the location of the two underground centrifuge halls of Natanz


    45. Unfortunately, he noticed the craters in his yard


    46. Most of those bombs however simply created craters in the ground


    47. ‘’That doesn’t make sense! Even if the Morgs had already destroyed everything, we would still see some debris and craters, at the least


    48. It would take no time before someone produced weapons and bombs with that technology, weapons and bombs that could blow to pieces whole asteroids and carve huge craters where our subsurface space cities are


    49. After tonight, I think I believe the theory about how they formed from the thunderbolts of the gods when a long time ago, plasma energy danced across the heavens and huge charges of energy were carving out the canyons and craters on the planet


    50. large water filled shell craters





































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    Synonyms for "crater"

    crater volcanic crater abyss gulf pit shaft well depth chasm

    "crater" definitions

    a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano


    a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus


    a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb