Sentences with phrase «hill on a roller coaster»

This feeling is familiar to anyone who has drifted over a hill on a roller coaster or flown on a parabolic «zero - gravity» flight — often referred to as a «vomit comet» ride because of the intense nausea the experience can trigger.

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It was the latest hill on a bureaucratic roller coaster that began with the abrupt departure on Friday of Richard Cordray, an Obama appointee who helped the agency aggressively expand its powers to punish rule - breaking companies.

There is nothing like the excitement felt going up a steep hill, before plunging down, and then entering a loop on a roller coaster.

Climbing the hill to Turn 1 is a rush, though not quite as dramatic as I'd expected, probably because I'm focusing on finding the apex rather than appreciating the roller - coaster aspect of the experience.

The ramp goes up at a 35 - degree angle (the angle of the first hill on most roller coasters) to a height of 18 - feet and then back down the other side.

Driving in the country on roller coaster hills with my son, right after dusk in the summer.

«I like to think that «where a roller coaster used to stand» refers to Playland by the Beach next to the Cliff House, and this eagle is one of the dozens that migrate past Hawk Hill each fall,» says Allen Fish, director of our Golden Gate Raptor Observatory — which does most of its work on and around Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands.

Not only is the current «hill» on the roller coaster as high or higher than anything our species has experienced since we first settled down from a hunter - gatherer lifestyle, but the track is nearly vertical.

Things are back to some semblance of normal... until we crest the next hill on this roller - coaster ride.