Sentences with phrase «creeping along»

Another feline shape could be seen creeping along in our direction under the cars.

His hip broken, he still struggled to survive, creeping along ditches to try to escape the big pack dogs that harassed him and bit at his dragging leg.

The novella has sold well, the children's book is creeping along gaining momentum slowly.

Whether in Competition guise or not, the A7 is worth considering over its hotter stablemates, especially if you're going to spend your time in it creeping along in traffic.

Power when you need it in Sport Mode and pure electric when your creeping along in bumper to bumper traffic.

Creeping along in the stop - and - go traffic, we were able to appreciate the transparency of the Insight's hybrid power train.

Whether you're creeping along or flooring it, response is quick and gearshifts are smooth.

Here, adaptive cruise control is a quality of life feature — just hit the «Set Speed» button and don't worry about cars stopping suddenly or creeping along.

The advance package, another $ 3,000, adds stop - and - go adaptive cruise control with low - speed following (creeping along in traffic jams), collision mitigation braking with even more pedestrian detection, and road departure warning, which is a more aggressive, pull - me - back - from - the - abyss enhancement to lane departure warning.

It kept creeping along.

That steering and the transmission become reasonably tame in city driving, or when creeping along in stop - and - go traffic.

Instead, clumps of Corvettes, Chargers, and Trans Ams are creeping along at no more than 20 mph, the air shimmering with big - block heat and unfiltered exhaust fumes.

American heiress Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), the heroine of «Crimson Peak,» saw the ghost of her dead mother when she was a child, the shadow of its long fingers creeping along the wall (a steal from «Nosferatu»).

As long as the speed and direction are constant, the Ping - Pong ball would behave exactly the same whether the train's creeping along at a snail's pace or barreling down the tracks.

Everyone is creeping along at the same rate, and no one can switch routes without penalizing himself by making the trip longer.

He continued creeping along the forest floor for some 30 or 40 yards until he came to a narrow part of the bush that the lion had gone through.

Sadly, the bulk of the 50 million - plus visitors who converge on this tourist megalopolis every year, spending hours creeping along congested highways from hotels to theme parks, probably never realize that the other, wilder Florida lurks just an exit away.

The Arab Spring helped speed up the democratisation programme which had been creeping along.

The Creep: She keeps her bottom in the air and her forearms on the floor, creeping along on her belly.

I saw him approach out of the corner of my eye, creeping along the balcony's ledge once again.

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON (Reuters)- At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along...

At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor.

They sang it several dozen times until the Cotton Bowl traffic slowed Cecil to a creep along Grand Avenue, one of the main entrance streets.

After the scan we went into town to buy some early baby clothes, what a mistake to make, I just cant do this anymore, I creeped along the highstreet at minimum possible speed, my husband couldnt believe that I was beeing serious about having to walk so slow... it must have looked rediculous!

«UV light accelerates cancer cells that creep along outside of blood vessels.»

Knowing that clay - rich rocks can release tectonic energy in a controlled way could explain how a fault might creep along, he says, and might help scientists predict a fault's next move.

In nature, a slime mould relies on chemical receptors on its surface to sense substances in its path as it creeps along the forest floor.

Alternatively, it can pull itself into a wheel and roll or creep along the ground with its legs splayed out like a spider's.

The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn't stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.

The hole, near Parkfield, sits at the border between a quiet part of the fault that creeps along smoothly without producing quakes and a more dangerous patch that tends to fracture under stress and produce quakes.

In 1999, in a now famous finding, Hau shone laser light on a condensate, causing photons to creep along inside it.

They steadily creep along at around 5 centimeters (2 inches) a year.

I'd so much prefer not to encounter any creeps along the way who are way out of my age range.

I flick on the surround view camera and creep along, thankful for the light - effort steering at low speeds.

As we crept along in traffic on La Cienega and then on Sunset, that number began to dwindle.

A Compass Trailhawk variant is for more serious off - roading with hill descent control and a 20:1 crawl ratio when you need to creep along a rutted road.

The Trailhawk can creep along off - road with slightly more control than your average Compass.

Or... 2) feather the brake pedal as you come to a stop... if you ease into your stops, the car will go into «traffic creep along» mode and won't autostop.

It can creep along in traffic or roar down the road with the tachometer pushing 6,000.

As traffic crept along, the S550 Hybrid kept reasonably close to the car ahead, slowing and starting as needed.

The gasoline engine doesn't start until the electric motor can no longer supply the power needed — it can creep along in rush - hour traffic on electricity alone, but once you need to accelerate, the onboard computer cranks up the gasoline engine.

I could take off from a light without spinning the front tires and creep along in grid - locked traffic without stalling the engine.

More often, though, we crept along at the modest pace the conditions demanded, which helped keep the XC70s alive and gave us ample time to soak in the beauty and the buzzards and the burros and the beautiful blue seas that are Baja, our neighbor to the south.

His foot pressed the acceleration pedal to the floor, but the car continued to creep along, lurching like a drunk toward home.

Safari boats creep along the river searching for these elusive Black River crocodiles, all the while allowing visitors the chance to breathe in the fresh air and cool climate of the surrounding mangrove forests.

Another one of these positive / negative things that drag the game down is the game makes you creep along with several boring and challenging hunts that you must do to evolve to other areas to hunt.

And yet, that square of sunlight creeps along the wall as the sun sets.

geoDefense Swarm takes all the dizzying vectorized visuals, vexing challenges and highly kinetic addictive gameplay from the original, and changes the equation — instead of defeating creeps along a pre-defined path, geoDefense Swarm challenges you to use your creativity, building mazes for the creeps to navigate across obstacle - laden open levels.

«Force in this sense refers to the gravity that exerts an influence on all things that exist in a space, the force that allows vegetation to grow up from the ground, and the force that enables slime mould to creep along a wall,» Nawa writes.

It creeps along the walls, if you must know.