direct hit

In the next instant, Andrews took a direct hit and the brunt of the explosion.

The shelters most recently proved their value two years ago, when the school took a direct hit from a tornado.

Every rocket Hamas fires is a direct hit on the peace process, and the notion of a two-state solution.

The hospital now no longer uses its top floors, fearing an airstrike or a direct hit.

"You can see that it's taken a direct hit and is still smiling," Dufresne says to a round of applause from the audience.

Craig knew it was a direct hit, apparently in the bomb bay, exploding the bombs carried there.

Mushrooms of black smoke puffed into existence around it, knocked it around in the air, caught it with a direct hit.

They were living in a shell-proof dug-out, whereas we had no possible defence against a direct hit from any kind of shell.

“Done for” with a direct hit, one brave machine goes crashing earthward.

A direct hit on the limber brought instantaneous death to the wheelers and their beloved driver.