Sentences with phrase «like slingshot»

Also, ammunition items like slingshot pellets and arrows do not count, because each is forever linked to a non-consumable item.

For platforming, Luffy often extends himself like a slingshot, hurling his rubber body into the air.

Mike kept going, not knowing Lucy had stopped, and sprung back like a slingshot.

The 2 - liter turbo propels the 2,700 - pound Eclipse like a slingshot.

Stab the throttle in top gear at 2000 rpm, and then quickly brace yourself as the M3 takes one big fast swig before building momentum like a slingshot and zooming toward the horizon.

I had a moment of reflection and decided to go back to school to develop my skills and leadership, to pursue a graduate studies program that I felt would launch me into a new career, to catapult me into education policy like a slingshot.

experience as one like slingshot in the sense that he's been forced to back up slowly through reflection only to be sprung forward into action.

We also know that in addition to returning favorites like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, the actual Transformers might see new additions like Slingshot and Drift, Hound — possibly even Nemesis Prime or Ultra Magnus.

And it's like a slingshot, right.

At the same time, an electric field aligned along the current is responsible for converting magnetic into kinetic energy, firing out particles like a slingshot.

«He'd put all his weight on his stick and you couldn't read when the puck was actually leaving his stick, because it would bend so much like a slingshot.

Comets passing near large planets often are torn apart by gravitational effects or receive gravity boosts that fling them, like slingshots, out of the solar system forever.

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And sprinkled into the text and reflected in the illustrations were a few nonsense words: An inverted, orange and yellow slingshot that mixed things, called a tannin, and a metal wheel used like a rolling pin, called a sprock.

An IMBH at the cluster's center acts like a cosmic «spoon» and stirs the pot, causing those stars to slingshot to higher speeds and greater distances.

In their study, published on March 27 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), the researchers speculate that this could have been the origin of «Oumuamua: It was slingshot out of its home star system by a giant planet after being stretched into its peculiar cigar - like shape by extreme tidal pressures.

As the magnetic field lines pushed close together, the long lines broke apart and reformed like a single stretched rubber band, forming a slingshot that propels the plasma and releases the energy into the plasma, accelerating the plasma and heating it.

These organic and natural toys like wooden toys, blocks, dolls, trains, slingshots and crafts are great alternatives to plastic and electronic toys.

So, part of the benefits of Intermittent Fasting is we decrease mTOR for a short period of time, creating a slingshot - like effect.

It takes its core components (pigs, explosions, slingshots, rage) and combines them in a way that checks all the boxes you would expect a film like this, an ambitiously chirpy product of the tentacular Hollywood studio system of 2016, to check: It layers kid - friendly gags with subtler, for - adult jokes; it offers, along the way, several unobjectionable lessons about life and those who live it; it has really good animation.

In the trailer, characters like Wreck - It Ralph's Vanellope and Toy Story's Woody the cowboy and Emperor Zurg take turns wrecking things with cars, slingshots, magic powers and their own bodies.

The scene - building tactic that the film keeps returning to entails the camera hunkering down in a defined space (a frat - house common room, a bar, a dugout) to observe a large group of characters tripping over each other with rapid - fire quips, cutting between them like a little steel ball careening wildly off ramps and spring - loaded slingshots.

The only obvious one is a mini-game that is kind of like what you would get if you took the slingshot from Angry Birds, used it to shoot a slime in a DS version of shuffle board, and then used the stylus like curling brooms to steer your slime.

Battling an enormous T - Rex like creature in a cave means you can use a slingshot to launch a well - placed rock at an unstable formation in the ceiling to bring part of it down atop the monster.

Even with the CVT, the WRX feels like a bona fide performance car with slingshot - like acceleration, direct steering, and a rewardingly rigid suspension.

A black and white WRX STI slingshots between two stands of trees, more sideways and carrying more speed than the Evolution before it, and like the earlier race car, it appears to be headed for Smith's breastbone.

Get on the throttle hard at the exit of a corner and one of three things will happen: Sometimes you'll feel the tyres dig deep into the positive camber of the road, wall of death - style, and slingshot you out like the car has just hooked an elbow round a lamp post on the inside of the corner.

With no mechanical transmission, momentum is uninterrupted by gear changes, giving the i3 an almost slingshot - like effect.

Slingshot's canopy top hinges forward like a giant clamshell, while the rear of the passenger compartment juts over somewhat detached - looking rear haunches.

I'm here to tell you that the 2017 Nissan GT - R is still a precision instrument; it can still slingshot around a corner like gravity is working overtime.

The exterior styling of the concept is highlighted by a long hood, high - beltline and a cabin that presents a slingshot - like appearance.

Or you can adopt the other extreme — with Launch Control and Drivelogic program 6 to bestow slingshot acceleration and shift quality like a whack to the back of the head with the blunt edge of an axe.

Slingshot behaves very much like the already popular Snapchat: the modern day digital equivalent of «I'll show you mine if you show me yours.»

The original Angry birds title was among the first of its kind — using a slingshot to send birds flying like weapons through levels of physics - based game - play.

She would like nothing more than to use Jesse's head for a slingshot target, but soon Summer finds her aim shifting from his head to his heart.

But there are some good ones out there: Comic Chameleon is a webcomic aggregator that actually picks up popular webcomics like Questionable COntent, Girls with Slingshots and the like.

From the popular bucket list items like skydiving and scuba diving to offbeat ones like a human slingshot and the emperor swing, you are spoilt for choice for your...

One of the interesting things about this game is that it won't be just a port, it will be using the 3DS features to its advantage, like some new camera modes and angles which can be selection the touch screen, and a new way of controlling the aim of weapons such as the slingshot through the 3DS's gyro controls, basically when you tilt the 3DS up link will aim up.

I've also been working on Ninten's moveset: Neutral B: Offense / Defense / Quick up / Down (all work similar to monado arts, but the down versions lower someone else's stats temporary when he hits them) Side B: Paralyzes (works like Zelda's side b but it stuns enemies) Up B: Teleport (self explained) Down B: Counter (self explained) Neutral combo: punch, kick, kick Dash attack: a psi kick Side tilt: Slingshot, Side Smash: A metal Bat Swing Up tilt: An Upward punch, Up smash: A psi clap (that hits on all sides) Down tilt: A kick swipe, Down Smash: a psi split Neutral air: Psi cartwheel (it's slower than Lucas's) Forward air: Boomerang, Back Air: A kick, Up air: A psi kick, Down Air: Ness's Melee Down air Final Smash: PK Beam (it works like Samus's laser but it has better control)

Very early on in the game you are given what looks like the wooden frame of a slingshot and an object just out of reach that needs to be knocked down somehow.

I mean, nothing says «It's a party» like giant slingshots with hapless characters falling into increasingly painful situations, right?

There is also the option of using the Wii U gamepad's internal gyroscopes for motion controls, which offer more fine tuning for things like arrows and slingshots.

The only obvious one is a mini-game that is kind of like what you would get if you took the slingshot from Angry Birds, used it to shoot a slime in a DS version of shuffle board, and then used the stylus like curling brooms to steer your slime.

You acquire new items like bow and arrows, a slingshot, and have a few magic spells at your disposal to defeat enemies.

How about a classic slingshot like David used against Goliath?

By making you physically fling — as in, put in a slingshot and shoot out — everything from explosive barrels to defensive buildings like outposts and armories, Siegecraft successfully gameifies the most banal part of traditional RTSs and summarily smothers what might otherwise be a dynamic and interesting game.

Most of them have a special skill, whether it's combat related (like grenades or slingshots) or focused on improving the Gustaff.

At the time the real data runs out, well it's like riding on a horse driven cart over a bumpy road aiming a slingshot and when you let the slingshot go, that's the direction it travels.

This app comes from the Facebook Creative Labs, the team behind a handful of specific - purpose - based apps released last year, including: Groups, an app for communicating and sharing photos with groups; Slingshot, an ephemeral messaging service; and Paper, a Flipboard - like reader app.

Facebook has tried multiple times to copy Snapchat with standalone apps like Poke, Slingshot and Instagram Bolt.

While Facebook has tried to push other copycats of Snapchat, they've typically lived in separate apps like Poke and Slingshot, or as features buried behind the News Feed, like its revamped camera.