How to Use overpressure in a Sentence

overpressure

noun

• All of us had our mouths open to keep the blast overpressure from rupturing our eardrums.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
• Past this ring of violence, a three-square-mile area would suffer through 5 pounds per square inch of overpressure.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• In space there’s no air, so all that pounds-per-square-inch overpressure damage is not going to happen.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• One estimate puts it at the equivalent of 240 tons of TNT, based on map data and the amount of overpressure required to cause the damage seen.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2020
• This style of eruption are caused when water that seeps into the volcano heats up enough to flash into steam, causing an overpressure to the rocks above.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2013
• A bomb that kills through overpressure, the MOAB is well suited for destroying cave complexes.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2017
• A second valve, designed to relieve overpressure, opened properly but failed to close when the pressure dropped below safe levels.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• When a man hiding in a fridge is swept by this overpressure wave, he’ll certainly be battered to death inside a tumbling, irradiated oven.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• If the asteroid is large enough, the overpressure would effectively pulp victims' insides.
  — Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 28 June 2018
• Each 500-pound bomb was set to detonate just above its target for maximum lethality, operating more through overpressure than fragmentation.
  — William Langewiesche, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
• The documents, submitted to the FAA in February, said explosions, heat plumes, blast overpressure, falling debris, noise and other issues could diminish the habitat and its animal populations.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 5 May 2022
• The Mark 21 Mod 0 grenade system, developed by Norwegian defense contractor Nammo, is designed for use by attacking troops against enemy positions, blasting them with concussive overpressure while posing less of a danger to friendly forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024