It was apparently capable of sustaining a direct hit with minimal damage.

The ship sustained a direct hit from a 500-pound bomb and sank within four minutes.

All at once, however, it became a moot point: The ship sustained a terrible direct hit.

Two people were injured when their car sustained a direct hit.

The complex was designed and built to sustain a direct hit from a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb, equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki.

Dead Zones are areas that sustained a direct nuclear hit during the war.

Kocatepe sustained a fatal hit and sank with the loss of 54 crew members.

The Harrier had sustained a serious hit to its tail section.

The Hughes had sustained a hit to its rear end, which was now in flames.

They lived near San Diego, which sustained a direct nuclear hit during the war.