Ugly cracks radiated from the spot of impact.

And the truth is that Washington is still a lot more comfortable containing an easily identifiable enemy than managing a system where cracks on one side of the globe can radiate to the other.

Both dishes - were heavy earthenware, with the fine cracks of age radiating through the glaze.

A chunk of plaster had fallen away a few feet above the ground, and cracks radiated away from the shattered brickwork underneath.

These cracks radiate and thin outward from the centre of the typical boulder and are typically filled with an outer (early stage) layer of brown calcite and an inner (late stage) layer of yellow calcite spar, which often, but not always, completely fills the cracks.

Another dull hammer-blow made his ears sing with the reverberation, and as he turned he saw a large piece of brickwork topple to the floor, leaving a great hole beside the safe, a hole from which wide cracks radiated.

The cracks radiated as far as the eye could see, as if the landscape of Thallon had transformed into a massive jigsaw puzzle.

Splits and cracks radiated away into the flanks, their ends beyond seeing, lost in darkness.

Many cracks radiated from the Erebus Glacier Tongue, and we monitored their progress keenly.

Half-meter-long cracks radiated through the composite material.