Sentences with phrase «of jackrabbit»

Even then, this heavy car is incapable of the kind of jackrabbit start you sometimes need - to make a left turn through traffic, for example.

Juniper thickets not only reduce the number of jackrabbits and cottontails for eagles to capture, but also makes it difficult to capture the ones that are there by allowing the rabbits to hide in the thickets.

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An imperialism of the present also thrives within a populist evangelicalism shaped by the likes of the celebrated evangelist Billy Sunday, who once boasted, «I don't know any more about theology than a jackrabbit does about ping pong, but I'm on the way to glory.»

In south Texas, jackrabbits are a problem and must be fenced out of pepper fields.

The Bulldogs were one of five teams to secure an automatic bid last night, with the College of Charleston Cougars (Colonial Athletic Association), LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds (Northeast Conference), South Dakota State Jackrabbits (Summit League) and Wright State Raiders (Horizon League) joining them.

The Jackrabbits are the favorites in the Summit League and will have the benefit of playing the conference tournament in Sioux Falls where the program has won four of the last six tournaments.

Winner: Michigan - The jackrabbits don't stand a chance against a wolverine, one of the most vicious animals known to man.

But after a promising start last week, the Jackrabbits were choked out by the North Dakota State defense, and the Bison ran all over them to the tune of 302 yards as a team.

De La Salle vs. Long Beach Poly (2001) Over the past 30 - plus years, many longtime Southern California observers will tell you that the Jackrabbits of this season were the most physically impressive team they've ever seen (the 2013 team at St. John Bosco - Bellflower was close).

The Huskies lost just four games in the Pac - 12, but a bad loss to the South Dakota St. Jackrabbits and a 25 - point drubbing courtesy of the Oregon Ducks eliminated them from the big tournament.

Trailing 20 - 14 with just 3:40 remaining in the game, Partridge grinded out 56 of the 77 yards Granite Bay needed, including a key 33 - yard screen pass to the Jackrabbits» 27 - yard line.

The Jackrabbits could still inch up higher than Folsom in the early rankings if there's a key transfer or two that show up in the early weeks of practice.

Bettors may not expect the Jackrabbits to win straight up, but 72 % of spread tickets are banking on them to keep this game within eight points.

Why the public loves South Dakota State: The 28 - 6 Jackrabbits have won 19 of their past 20 games and are getting 7.5 points against a Buckeyes team that has lost three of their last five matchups.

Researchers, though, had never spotted badgers burying anything bigger than a jackrabbit — until 2016, when a young, dead cow went missing in a study of scavengers in northwestern Utah.

Conversely, hawks tend to be strongly territorial, intolerant of human disturbance, and prefer prey like jackrabbits that occupy similar habitats,» said coauthor and USGS ecologist Kristy Howe, whose masters thesis research with WCS formed the foundation of this study.

Hello loves, As part of my two part series of where to stay, shop and eat in Portland, this week I will be talking about Jackrabbit PDX situated in the lobby of The Duniway, A Hilton Hotel.

His larger roles include the nominal villain in Ken Maynard's Red Raiders (1928), Billy Jackrabbit in the 1930 version of Girl of the Golden West (1930) and Geronimo in Son of Geronimo.

As the stoic stranger Silas (Fassbender) describes in voiceover, young Jay is «a jackrabbit in a den of wolves,» willing to pay Silas to serve as chaperone while oblivious to the fact that his new protector falls among those looking to collect the bounty on Rose's head for crimes committed back home.

The year that Reality Bites and Winona Ryder enshrined Generation X into the smokers» Hall of Fame and Pulp Fiction «s Uma Thurman exhaled expectantly from her booth at Jackrabbit Slims.

Even so, Cameron Diaz, whose sleek, ostentatious attire and spotted tattoos evoke the same dangerous beauty of the pet cheetahs, with Malkina's desire to chase and devour dumber, slower people like little jackrabbits, plays the role in too obvious, conniving a way to ever see her as much more than an underhanded «Medea» from the get go.

It's a chance encounter with Silas (Michael Fassbender) that gives him any hope of survival at all; Silas is, as Jay puts it, a brute, but Jay is, as Silas puts it, a «jackrabbit in a den of wolves.»

The farm classroom is full of surprises: cherry tomatoes that taste like candy, a jackrabbit that suddenly pops out from behind a squash vine, a volunteer crop from the prior season.»

That said, if one were to break the usual rules of fuel - efficient driving — with jackrabbit starts, greatly exceeding the speed limit, or simply driving it very hard — mileage will not meet EPA ratings.

Put your foot into it, speed, do jackrabbit starts — or just mind your own business during freezing cold weather — and the mpg can still go down commensurately as was true of Prius models before this one.

Right out of the garage we put the engine to the test with a few jackrabbit starts.

Get too lead - footed with jackrabbit starts and panicked stops or saw away at the steering wheel and the GLK350's elevated center of gravity and the laws of physics will gang up on you.

Dens of rattlesnakes, scorpions, jackrabbit, cottontail, ants, horny butterfly, horned toad, and stinging winds and seasons.

Other forms include frog, bumblebee, splinter, mosquito, jackrabbit and, of course, grasshopper which can be found in The Democratic Review in 1851: «You pretend to be my daddies; some of you who are not knee - high to a grasshopper!

This mythical critter is born of a dwarf deer and a jackrabbit.

Lizards warm themselves on gigantic granite boulders, Jackrabbits and deer make their homes amid the desert landscape, towering saguaro cacti reach for the sky, and the sun's rays encourage wildflowers to bloom in vivid shades of magenta, gold and lavender.

The moderately difficult trek up Piestewa's Summit Trail takes less than hour and rewards climbers with city views and up - close encounters with jackrabbit, lizards, palo verde and mesquite trees, and dozens of types of cactus.

[8] In his book Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. describes how sailors in the 1830s camped on the beach at La Playa, accumulated cattle hides for export, and hunted for wood and jackrabbits in the hills of Point Loma.

The under - thirties sprang like jackrabbits up the trail and were soon out of sight.

Jazz Jackrabbit was one of the best 2D platformers of the late 90s.

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Soon Epic MegaGames was producing numerous high quality titles — many of them shareware — including Epic Pinball, Jazz Jackrabbit and Solar Winds: The Escape.

In Monk's Rew - Shay Hood Project IX, Ruscha's intentionally banal 1962 image of a Texaco station in Jackrabbit, Arizona, is transformed, newly presented onto the hood of a 1970 Datsun 240z as a dynamic, graphic airbrush painting.

I think the point of introducing the jackrabbits is to feed the coyotes.