Sentences with phrase «fish wriggles»

«When a fish wriggles on a hook, it goes deeper into the mouth and guarantees that the fish will not escape.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge comparing him to a fish wriggling on a hook.

Not exact matches

Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way along are evidence of a constant give - and - take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment — a momentum exchange that propels the fish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever - flowing body of waFish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way along are evidence of a constant give - and - take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment — a momentum exchange that propels the fish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever - flowing body of wafish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever - flowing body of water.

Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.

He took out a large skillet, which would shortly become the instrument of doom for the tiny wriggling fish.

And the iPad mini isn't about competing with the wriggling tadpoles already in the «small tablet» pond, it's about a big fish extending its dominion.

After a moment of their bewilderment, I fish my fingers through the substrate and pull out a delicate little wriggling snake.

He made the call in a presidential memorandum with no teeth or money behind it, which mainly serves to put pressure on government officials to focus existing programs in ways that give the country's largely urbanized populace opportunities to get wet or muddy, to see an orange newt wriggling on a leafy park path, to have a chance to toss a fishing line in a reclaimed urban river.

You've hooked a fish, but it could always wriggle away if you aren't careful about how you present the offer.