Sentences with phrase «flatten against»

Usually, when clippers appear, your dog's ears flatten against her head and she looks away.

The ears flatten against the head by degrees depending on how fearful or submissive the dog feels.

The new seating include 2nd â $ «row seats that actually slide and also flatten against the front seatbacks for an easy access to the third row.

«Make the front of the diaper a taco shape by cinching in the area that will fit between the legs while you flatten it against baby's belly.

(Actually, my nose is so big it pretty much flattens against my face.

Clusters of the white flowers whirled down from green foliage, to be flattened against scorching asphalt as car after car completed the tortuous thousand miles of open road of Italy's Mille Miglia.

The grinning face of the Er Pupone, thumb pointed in the air, pixel - flattened against the brotherhood of the Curva Sud: Totti's selfie is an image caught up in the complicated semiology through which Italian football speaks to itself.

The bespectacled Ms. Jaffrey is diminutive in stature, but when she quietly glided by me at a recent culinary conference, I flattened myself against the nearest door.

Confused, frightened, she flattened herself against the uneven wall, fingers splayed against the stone.

Ears flattened against the head indicate fear; however, ears swiveled down and not against the head indicate a confident aggressor who will attack, she says.

He incorporated a tire in one of the exhibited artworks, Ruby Re-Run (Spread), 1978, the tire sliced open and flattened against the surface, like a double donut.

Not exact matches

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, who consistently voted against rate hikes last year, said in a CNBC interview on Friday that the flattening curve was «a yellow light flashing,» a warning that the Fed should soon stop raising rates or risk braking the economy too quickly and plunging the country into recession.

The gap began to narrow in mid-2009 as the SPI started to decline against a flattening BPI through January 2010.

Over against the desire to uproot, the creational mandate revels in this - worldly occupation, preferring to flatten out apocalpytic into the idea of a Christian society as the natural outgrowth of human life.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

The battle he fought was against the flattening of human experience.

It is flattened out and simplified, used as a weapon against other people and a prop for pet political and theological positions.

I thwap the tart pan against the counter a couple times to flatten out the dumplings a bit.

Also, knock the muffin tin against the counter or your hand to help flatten them out.

Now, put on another sheet of paper, and smash your face against it repeatedly to flatten the rice and even it out.

Arsenal escaped a penalty in their match at the Emirates Stadium against Chelsea as Oscar was flattened by David Ospina as both went for a ball coming into the box.

The first was also against Manchester City at Maine Road in November 1993, where goals from Eric Cantona (2) and Roy Keane flattened their rivals, who had taken a 2 - 0 lead at half - time through Niall Quinn's double.

A match day that was expected to be a great occasion and a certain 3 points for us against a team we love to beat was pretty much flattened with the terrible news concerning the passing of Howard Kendall.

Blind's lack of staying power and aggression originally saw him caught out when thrown up against centre - forwards such as Bafetimbi Gomis and Graziano Pelle, who were able to roll him, almost effortlessly, to get goal side and leave the Dutchman flattened out in their wake.

This peristaltic action of the infant's tongue flattening the nipple against the hard palate moves the milk toward the throat, where the baby swallows and gains nourishment (Figure 1).

So long as the seal remains intact, the infant obtains milk easily by using a peristaltic - like motion of the tongue to compress the flattened soft breast nipple against the palate.

The wrap or sling shouldn't flatten the baby's spine against you but should provide plenty of support to keep it upright and stable at all times.

For the chest and tummy, place both hands flat against the center of your baby's body, then spread them gently to the sides, as if flattening the pages of a book.

Platycephally (flattening) of the head is not necessarily if at all caused by infant sleeping on their backs but by how long babies lean their heads against hard objects or, what I call, «transformer baby furniture, or furniture that can change into many different pieces (like those transformer toys in the eighties and nineties) making it easy to keep babies heads against hard surfaces for an excessive amounts of time therein reshaping the infant's head.

Research backed by the American Academy of Pediatrics states that «with prolonged immobilization on a firm mattress or a flat bed (as in a stroller), the constant influence of gravity flattens the body surface against the mattress producing positional disorders and infants with decreased muscle tone (Short, 1996)».

Once in the vagina or the urethra, the extremely mobile T. vaginalis flattens its otherwise pear - shaped body against the wall and secretes proteins that destroy surrounding cells while consuming surrounding good bacteria to alter the overall acidity of the environment more to its liking.

Flatten your lower back against a mat and straighten your arms by your sides, lengthening your fingertips.

Not only does it signal your body to flatten out that chest, it also makes you more attractive to women, increases muscle mass, increases sperm production, helps you perform better in the bedroom, boosts confidence, delays aging, strengthens bones, protects against disease, increases lifespan, and much more.

Step 8: Flatten the bun against your head and use bobby pins to secure the bun to your head so it doesn't stick out too much.

Spurred by a rebellion against corsets and full skirts from designers such as Coco Chanel, Jeanne Lanvin, and Jean Patou, waistlines dropped, busts flattened, and hemlines rose to shocking new heights for a look that came to define modern femininity and sex appeal.

Battle for Brooklyn (Unrated) Eminent domain documentary about the seven - year legal fight led by resident David Goldstein against real estate developers determined to flatten his Prospect Heights neighborhood in order to build a stadium for the NBA's New Jersey Nets.

Flatten the go - pedal, let the eight - speed automatic swap cogs, and watch the needle brush against the 6,500 - rpm redline until the world whisks by at a cool top speed of 191 mph.

After the presentation, one of the other pupils, a small plain girl whose nose was slightly flattened as though having been pressed against a window pane too long, rushed forward and pushed a small package into my hand.

The monkey flattened itself out against the tree, spreading its arms and legs enthusiastically, and then, reaching around with both hands as if trying to scratch its back, it tumbled down to the ground.

He stood against a wild moorland scene, a pine flattening in the gale on the brow of a distant hill, and rags of black cloud flying across the sky.

I shook my head and went back to the front door, where I flattened my face against the cold wood of the door's surface and watched through the peephole what was happening on the staircase.

I had no other army to fight them against, so I marched my nutcracker men across the kitchen floor, flattening buildings that I made out of cards.

Natalie's cheeks burned with color, and she flattened herself up against the sneeze guard of the salad bar so that Courtney and Josie could slip by.

It is true that ebook sales for publishers have flattened (we don't know the overall trend for sure because we don't really know the indie sales at Amazon, and they're substantial) and don't seem likely to grow their share against print anytime soon.

Eli Neiburger, deputy director of AADL, warns against dedicating disproportionate resources to ebooks when the adoption curve for them has flattened so quickly: The restrictive licenses offered elsewhere further limit their usefulness to all patrons in a given library system.

If you do opt to get a memory foam bed be sure to get one that is made from high density foam with plenty of thickness and a great warranty that guards against flattening.

When cats have had their fill they often communicate their wishes by thrashing their tails, positioning their ears back, flattening whiskers against their face, tenseness and fur rippling.

During play, punishment, greetings or physical contact some dogs might urinate and they also do tend to show submissive postures in interactions — for example, they flatten their ears against their head, they roll over and expose their belly or hold their tail low.

A fearful dog will display certain body postures, including lowering his head, flattening his ears back against his head, and tucking his tail between his legs.

Such dogs tend to display submissive postures during interactions, such as holding the tail low, flattening the ears back against the head, crouching or rolling over and exposing the belly.