Sentences with phrase «limp across»

But Marchant managed to limp across the finish line, in spite of severe cramping, which she coped with by repeatedly stabbing a safety pin into her contorted and cramping quad muscle.

After playing the game, I can tell you that the final product has the feel of something that had a chance at the start of the race but was only able to barely limp across the finish line in the end.

Instead, it plods from one dull scene to another, all of which limp across the screen.

«The governor clearly wants him to have a race to make him spend his money and maybe, best case, be defeated or worst case, limp across the finish line into 2018,» said a long - time Westchester County politico.

How often has he said we are strong and that our team has spirit and unity blah blah blah yet continue to fail to get anywhere near winning ANYTHING other than limping across the line in last seasons FA cup!

The facility was built in 1962 with its most recent major update in 1982, when its then - outdoor rink was enclosed and heated, Hamilton said, adding that with mechanical issues over the year, the more than 50 - year - old building is «limping across the finish line.»

Okay, it's not a great film, but we have a soft spot for this patriotic comedy casting Grant as the long - suffering commander of a wounded, belching, Pepto - Bismol pink submarine limping across the wartime Pacific.

Even at an anaemic eighty - five minutes, the film drags somehow, limping across the finish line with an ass rimshot that isn't funny at the beginning of the picture with Hank Azaria and hasn't gotten any funnier by the end of it with Ben Stiller.

Both drivers walked away unscathed with Prost limping across the line in ninth place, but the first - ever Formula E victory was taken by Lucas di Grassi for the Audi Sport ABT team.

We limped across the finish line, and celebrated the end of the year with forty friends and clients, collaborators and competitors in our annual Christmas lunch at the Groucho Club.

It's not uncommon to hit four or five in a row, which means you'll be turtle limping across the track if you continue to drive over them.

Not exact matches

Instead of the limp cubes of meat and potatoes you encounter at diners across the country, this recipe cashes in on an abundance of golden, crispy bits.

During race two of the Porsche GT3 Cup Brazil at the Autodromo Velo Citta, Pomelli came across the limping car of Tom Valle.

For anyone mourning Barcelona's limp, uncompetitive exit from the Champions League at the quarterfinal stage against Roma, there is some bitter consolation: There was no doubt whatsoever, across two matches, that the more deserving side advanced.

I had been rolling a cigarette but the paper suddenly felt limp in my tremulous hands, the tobacco scattering across the road like the dreams and aspirations of my generation, a generation lost in space with no time left to start again.

Activate failed miserably and has been the subject of much ridicule across the political spectrum, but still limps on.

He's a paint - by - numbers guy, offering little in the way of excitement, and, when a script is this dull, everything he has assembled just comes across as so limp and lifeless it just might bore you to death.

Gringo is the latter, a passable in - flight movie that limps home across the border with nothing much to declare.

Plaza goes for broke and will surely be remembered for one of the strangest performances this year while DeHaan is rarely off the mark and it's their unlikely chemistry that rounds Life After Beth round the bases, even if it occasionally limps its way across home plate.

The same can not be said of Free Fire as characters limp, crawl and worm their way across the crumbling set.

Until then, we're going to try to span across many price points,» said Mr. Limp.

«In e-books, you have this tension, between the purity of a book's layout as it was envisioned in print, and the flexibility that e-reading brings to a customer, by allowing you to increase font size, read books across multiple devices, and so on,» says Dave Limp, senior vice president of Amazon Devices.

My family and I were in the backyard and I noticed my dog ran across the grass and out of nowhere stopped and started limping.

You desperately front - flip and boost your way back, but to no avail; the ball limps its way across the line, and just like that, you're 1 - 0 down.

Set within space and placed within the boots of a heavily - armed robot, each of the game's 12 levels are linked together by a limp, yet somewhat - charming story spread across multiple planets; each of which are jumped between at will and flip the action (quite literally) on its head.

Doing damage to the monster, the beast starts to show signs of wear — scars across the legs I've been chopping away at, and a slight limp as he escapes my onslaught.

Its implied violence is simultaneously random and precise: perfectly vertical gouges puncturing the gallery walls; torn - apart clothing dangling, abject and limp; and amputated tree limbs arranged on rugs across the floor.

Resumes can describe those actions in two different ways: They can limp anemically across the document and put hiring managers to sleep, or they can jump off the page and grab the recruiter's attention, inspiring him to reach for the phone to schedule an interview.

Extra Tip from Career Coach Hallie: I have come across too any people who have a limp handshake and it makes an impression on me.

Like when I walked the «pilgrim trail» — which involves limping 400 km across Spain and sleeping in dormitory - style accommodation with lots of farting Frenchmen — and saw a couple of fellow pilgrims staggering along with a two - metre - tall statue of the Virgin Mary.

Like when I walked the «pilgrim trail» — which involves limping 400 km across Spain and sleeping in dormitory - style accommodation with lots of garlicky, farting Frenchmen — and saw a couple of fellow pilgrims staggering along with a two - metre - tall statue of the Virgin Mary.