Sentences with phrase «against the ground»

A dense cascade of red leaves appears to be falling down the canvas against a ground of various tones of green.

Let a bit of slack in your ropes and slam against the ground continuously either in rotation or together.

Prepare to push hard against the ground with your left foot to maintain your balance.

Start by lying on your side with one arm extended above your head and the other arm in front of you, hand pressed against the ground.

At the same time, the other child kicks against the ground so that he or she can move up with the other side of the board.

While a few towers are better for flying enemies and a handful of towers are strong against ground enemies, I never felt the need to really switch up my tower lineup.

Every micro scooter reviewed in this article is a «kick scooter,» meaning that they are powered by the child's foot, which kicks against the ground.

Keeping your shoulders back, lower your chest to the ground and push your body back up, keeping the dumbbells firmly against the ground.

Slightly contract your core so that your lower back is flat against the ground.

You should feel your lower back filling up with air, pushing against the ground.

The story has another twist that also underscores the importance of checking orbital data against ground truth.

But those numbers need to be checked against ground - based measurements — which are now on the way.

Now, it doesn't feel like my foot is pounding against the ground.

In order to maintain that shoulders - square position, you must exert force with your fist against the ground, which carries through the arm and into the core.

That same person holds the dog's bottom leg (the front leg against the ground) just above the dog's elbow and lifts that leg up somewhat.

The main complaint against grinding is that it has the potential to force players to do something boring in the promise of doing something fun later.

But last summer, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge showed that Pistorius's prosthetic limbs didn't generate as much force against the ground as biological legs.

It is a vital and energetic work, where amorphous shapes filled with stripes of vivid primary colors and subtle pastel tones interlock to form a proud and playful jigsaw, set against a ground of dense black.

She has said that the job often attended to a worn bottom edge, where tapestry rubs against the ground.

This year biologists published a study of super-ants that fly by biting against the ground so hard that they shoot themselves into the air.

The long branches of the trees leaned against the ground and something as dark as oil dripped from their tips.

This works reasonably well against air targets, but not against ground targets, they usually force you to target them head on first before you can give those order.

Painting two or three soft - edged, luminescent rectangles, stacked weightlessly on top of one another, floating horizontally against a ground, he sought to transport the viewer to new realms of emotion and perception.

Thumping: When a rabbit is not happy with something you did or with something in his environment, he might express his displeasure with a loud «thump,» which is accomplished by smacking his hind foot hard against the ground.

Shilique Calhoun is more of a pass rusher than a run defender, but he's decent against the ground game, and tackles Malik McDowell, Joel Heath, Lawrence Thomas and Craig Evans have combined for 12 tackles for loss.

Listen with the full length of your body against the ground.»

The playpen is durable and stable, it holds on tight against the ground, which helps your baby feel safe and secured while having fun.

Her head slammed against the ground during volleyball tryouts.

Lower the handlebar until the black rubberized padding is flush against the ground.

It's disappointing as I had high hopes for this bag, but the following points is where it let me down: - There's nowhere to lock the bag at all - The handle at the top of the bag is rubbish and is truly uncomfortable - The wheels on the bag are just too small which caused the material on the bag to drag against the ground Good effort but a lot needs to be done to improve this product.

Imagine a phone you could hurl against the ground and have bounce back to you intact, or a spacecraft with a strong but springy surface that easily deflects debris.

The low frictional coefficient of the ice would then overcome the rocks» tendency to catch against the ground, allowing them to be blown along by relatively light winds.

One can not fire against the ground because of the risk of ricochets and it is said to damage the shotgun bore.

«Validation of a radiosonde - based cloud layer detection method against a ground - based remote sensing method at multiple ARM sites.»

Place forearms against the ground, drop the head, and breathe into the stretch.

Lie flat on the floor with your stomach against the ground and your arms out to your sides.

Plant your left hand firmly against the ground at a 90 degree angle, and push yourself to the right so that your body goes up and over the roller.

Firm up the arms and press down forcibly against the ground to feel more stability in your stretched out back.

Keeping your body rigid, slowly push up with your arms until they are almost fully extended, with your feet at a ninety - degree angle with your legs, and your toes bend against the ground supporting your legs.

To execute a push - up, lie face - down on the ground with your legs together and your hands pressed flat - palmed against the ground just wider than shoulder - width apart, parallel to your neck.

The crew finds out as they pit every object they can find against the grinding weight of the Captain's Tank.

She stops for a moment, planting her high heels against the ground and leaning forward into the current — and then she just keeps tilting, to a degree not possible in physics, but eminently believable within the emotional framework of the movie draped around her sturdy shoulders.

In that case D + could be connected to a sensor input in the ECU where the voltage is measured against ground.

I lay in a twisted S, my face turned upward, the back of my head wedged against the ground.

I watched his back moving away, walking beneath the murky light of the street lamps, perhaps suppressing an urge to dash the machine against the ground.

People continue to walk by in both directions, and unable to disguise their loathing for the skeletal woman who is slumped against the ground, they simply avert their gazes.

If your dog is dragging their butt against the ground or on your furniture, there are two likely causes... they may either need their anal glands squeezed, or they may potentially have picked up a parasitic worm from the environment.