killing distance
killing range

All the better to expand the killing distance of the fireball, he thought.

"All right, but we need to know its effective killing distance, firing rate, all that sort of thing."

Hadn't Chardy allowed the Kurd to get within killing distance?

It was all going well; the range from his position to the enemy was less than two hundred yards, well within killing distance.

Under cover of that ravine, a squad might get to within killing distance of the rocket launcher.

A simple shot one thousand yards away, beyond the calculated limits of the Marlin's range-but well within the big-game piece's killing distance.

Upon arriving at the open country in the neighbourhood of Cowdellai, I got a shot at a deer at a killing distance.

The Russians charged to get inside their own killing distance, no matter the cost they paid to the SS guns raging away above their heads.

He had never shot such a powerful rifle before; now, with the rangers in easy killing distance, he was vexed to find that the weapon shot low.

He walked the streets quietly, looking, searching, hoping no stranger would approach him to talk, because he would kill anyone who came within killing distance of him.

He knows that the floors of these two spaces are on the same plane, yet he feels certain that he will drop a killing distance if he dares cross into the corridor.

It was aimed well within killing distance and the needle point steel dart could pierce a vital organ - the liver - without risk of hitting the bone of hip joint or lower rib.

After all, if necessity is the mother of invention, no one had more need than the hardy Estonians, Icelanders and Finns, living on the frozen edge of Europe, when it came to killing distance as a barrier.

Travelling through the demon-infested countryside, and seeing horrors such as women impregnated by demons (the births usually resulting in the mother's death), the group encounters Zandramas, who attempts to coerce Ce'Nedra to come within killing distance.

He would thrust it at the cavern mouth guard and draw him down to killing distance, hoping he was quick enough to get out or at least hold the other at bay ... Before he could crawl into the hole his eye was caught by an object glimmering in the moonlight above his head.

But if you want a man dead, a particular man, then a moment or two would bring them into killing range."

Bob leant forward to bring Jennifer within the killing range of his aftershave.

The deer was almost within killing range and Prasamaccus chose a fat doe as his target.

The curved blade sliced clear with greater ease than the traditional gladius, and being longer they increased the killing range.

When an offensive missile passed in killing range of a defender, a blast seared the upper air, and both were gone.

The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter, and has a killing range of more than a mile.

Now that he had these slavers within killing range, he wanted to kill as many of them as possible before they killed him.

That ought to be killing range.

He had been trained to use high-energy weapons with a killing range of a few meters to thousands of kilometers.

Sighting on the leader, he bided his time until they were in killing range, then caressed the trigger twice.

McCarter's targets were within accepted killing range.

The Patriots, however, held their fire until the Loyalists got within killing range of their muskets.

Now that they were within killing range, he'd fired with brutal effect, cutting down the defenders as they peered over the edge of their trenches.

The standard scope was only four power, which all added up to a relatively short killing range for a sniper gun of less than six hundred yards.

However, the ambush was always triggered by electrically detonating a mine, when enemy troops moved within the mines killing range.

The Executioner slid his finger through the grenade's pin ring as the hunters moved into his killing range.

In Grant's final yearlong campaign against Richmond, his army and Lee's were hardly ever out of killing range of one another.

Answering in sign language, Tacho told Gaspar to move into killing range of the first Fed, while he found and targeted the second.

Once Thor got within killing range of the MiGs, however, I barely even glanced at the other two monitors.

And before the arbalesters could come within killing range, the arching shafts of the Bossonians were wreaking havoc in their ranks.

With the binoculars pressed to his sockets, Luis paused ninety seconds to let the T-34S close in to the killing range of the Tiger.

From there, to get within killing range, the Apaches had to dodge from rock to rock to get behind the low, natural wall in front of the station.

They were still three hundred feet beneath the fortress and from now on they would be within killing range of the guns mounted on Gawilghur's south-facing ramparts.

As they did so, the English archers rallied again and the air was once more full of the zip and thud of missiles, this time coming at killing range.

And being designed for use with the newer Minié ball bullets they could have a killing range of up to 1,000 yards and had devastating consequences against bayonet charging troops.