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Meanings of tracer bullet in inglés

Ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke.

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Examples for "tracer"
Examples for "tracer"
1
Beta-probes are a relatively new tool for tracer kinetic studies in animals.
Pubmed
2
There may well be a virtual environment tracer built into this stack.
Broken angels
3
He switched off the last tracer diagram, leaned on the railing heavily.
Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
4
He's got what he calls a tracer on me, for my protection.
Childhood's End
5
Read about a day in the life of a Victorian contact tracer.
The Guardian
Usage of tracer bullet in inglés
1
A tracer bullet whacked into the Jeep's side, and Lawry heard himself whimper.
Swan Song
2
A tracer bullet seemed to pass right through the aeroplane.
Mufti
3
A tracer bullet streaked past his face, and he tripped and fell over mangled bodies, but he got up again and kept going.
Swan Song
4
And then jeeps rolling by and bombs, guns, tracer bullets.
The Guardian
5
Roland fired into the dark, the red trajectories of tracer bullets ricocheting off the walls.
Swan Song
6
The shooting continued all around them, streaks of tracer bullets cutting through smoke and debris.
Jupiter War
7
When I close my eyes I see red streams of tracer bullets in the night sky.
The Irish Times
8
Tracer bullets shot up like lines of light, but so far he had come through untouched.
Mufti
9
Tracer bullets carved orange lines through the dark and ricocheted off stones like spent cigarette butts.
The Wolf’s Hour
10
The fluid would freeze into thousands of ice crystals and shoot into space like tracer bullets.
Riding rockets
11
Some were set ablaze by tracer bullets.
Reuters
12
Night skies were filled with red tracer bullets and beach baches shuddered from the crump of high explosives.
Radio NZ
13
The snout of a machine gun spat tracer bullets, and the slugs tore through the punctured walls like meteors.
Mine
14
'I'm on it,' Alex replied, adjusting his aim to the source of the tracer bullets.
Zero Point
15
Trying to walk around, I found that the concussion had scrambled my inner ear; stars shot around like tracer bullets.
The Big U
16
An instant later Tom heard the Lewis gun behind him firing, and he saw several tracer bullets strike the Hun machine.
Air Service Boys in the Big Battle; Or, Silencing the Big Guns