1.   High winds severed power lines in many areas last night.

2.   All the bridges were out, the phone lines were severed, and the rivers were swollen.

3.   Her gas line had been severed, too.

4.   In the Valujet case, the shrapnel severed fuel lines, which started a fire that destroyed the airplane on the runway.

5.   On Long Island, the wind toppled a construction crane in Great Neck, severing power lines and causing an unoccupied commercial building to collapse.

6.   Wallace tried to slow but, because the brake line was severed, he had no back brakes and could not slow the car.

7.   When the parts fly out they can sever hydraulic lines or otherwise cripple an aircraft.

8.   Dozens of villages in eastern Bulgaria were left without electricity on Christmas Day after heavy snowfalls severed power lines, the civil defense agency reported.

9.   Government supporters also blew up two bridges on roads south of the capital over the weekend to further sever supply lines, opposition supporters said.

10.   He said the pilot was unaware of having severed the line, and the plane continued on its flight.