But each time, eventually, there's a little splitting sound and then a big kaboom, and the wreckage is a mess.

There was a splitting sound and a line of intense yellow light appeared on the ceiling, a line that streamed from a crack in Alkland's chest.

It struck the hard snowpack again and again with the splitting sound of crashing metal and glass, The occupants might have survived if they'd been thrown clear, but the jarring series of impacts had jammed the doors.

Just as the last length was coiled around his waist, a splitting sound came from directly in front of him.

A great slab of ice cracked in half with a tremendous splitting sound and the coffin shot up from the water and bobbed once, twice.

Although he landed on the soft grass, his head made a dreadful rotten splitting sound, and Dani Rostov shrieked.

From somewhere there was a terrible splitting sound, a rending of the earth that seemed to Silvera like the noise of a thick telephone book being torn by muscular hands.

The words were scarcely out of his mouth when there was a groan, and a crack, and a splitting sound, and tearing, crashing down among the other trees came an oak, torn up by the roots, and it fell right across the road just before us.