Sentences with phrase «on blacktop»

Unfortunately, for Sega and Sonic, the hedgehog's popularity has dried up like a slug on blacktop in August.

There are multiplayer options, association mode, (which puts you in the role of general manager,) options to play 2 on 2 on a blacktop court, and much more.

From quiet walks through the woods, to racing cars on blacktop, these top five family adventures are just a small sample of the variety of options for family fun on the island.

I first met Chance about 10 years ago as a small dog chained to a pole on the blacktop in front of a residence on Holmes Street, with no food, shelter or water on a 99 degree hot summer day.

Heard its tires crushing grit on the blacktop.

The water on the blacktop or concrete slows you down or shoves you to one side or the other.

So there's Engineer Frith's stretching — or shredding — of the laws of physics, on the blacktop and out in the tules and anywhere inbetween.

It's hard on the blacktop, dull and boring inside, but all that doesn't mean anything.

Durango seats up to seven passengers and comes with either a 290 - horsepower 3.6 - liter V6 (295 hp on the Blacktop Package and Anodized Platinum Package) or a 360 - horsepower 5.7 - liter V8.

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The Prado's 2.8 - litre turbo - diesel isn't the most exciting powerplant going, only achieving what we'd terms as «adequate» status on the blacktop, while those six - monthly services will counter to some degree the Prado's historically very strong resale value.

But on blacktop, the only variation in handling attitude concerns the amount of understeer.

Lingenau says the car may not handle part of a sweeping 180 - degree left - hander coming up, and sure enough, I have to grab the wheel and make a quick correction to keep it on the blacktop.

Principal Frank Lozier confers with a parent on the blacktop before the school day begins.

Thirty 8th graders, all of them girls, sit quietly at their desks in Marina Middle School, dissecting Arthur Miller's «The Crucible,» oblivious to the sporadic squeals and bouncing balls on the blacktop outside.

An English teacher that I read about, after weeks of essays and test prep, surprised his 12th grade class with a game of kickball out on the blacktop.

When Statham puts the poor guy down on the blacktop, a whole gang of greasy losers come looking for trouble.

The children of the neighborhood admire Cornbread's prowess on the blacktop, including best friends Earl (Tierre Turner) and, the titular «Me», Wilford Robinson (Fishburne).

* Super Dark Times: interior - lit plastic snowman, no snow, rain sheen on blacktop driveway... * Ben Bradlee's (Tom Hanks's) voice changing on the single syllable «Jack» during a recitation of Presidents who have lied — The Post... * Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) and Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) going at each other hammer and tongs.

And it's like the first boy who told me we should just be friends out on the blacktop at recess, the girls who put their lunch boxes on the cafeteria benches so I couldn't sit down, the F in red ink on my spelling test, the words «I want a girl to spend my life with and you're just not her,» the music teacher who mocked me for getting too nervous to sing the right notes, the nasty comment from a stranger, and the job interviewer who doesn't even pretend to be interested all over again.

Imagine you have buckets (pixels) on a blacktop (sensor).

City Councilman Robert Cornegy said he will finally fulfill his promise to the rapper's mother, Voletta Wallace, when he cuts the ribbon next month on the blacktop at Crispus Attucks Playground on Fulton St. and Classon Ave. in Bedford - Stuyvesant.

Over the years, his tailgates have grown in scope and size, impressing friends, family and chef friends with elaborate spreads and surprises on the blacktop, including flowing cheese fondue fountains and decadent Bloody Mary Bars.

Not exact matches

Along a stretch of 12 - lane highway on the west side of Houston, a strip of blacktop straddled by so many oil and gas firms that it's known locally as the «energy corridor,» sits the sprawling campus that's home to Shell's deepwater operations.

In elementary school, the blacktop courts would be buzzing with kids hooping at recess and lunchtime, but Shelton often found himself alone, playing on a court by himself because nobody wanted to deal with the consequences if they beat him.

An agreement between Palatine - based School District 15 and District 211 will permit a blacktop playground to be built on an unused grassy area between Virginia Lake School and Palatine High School.

She's been threatened, harassed, had her office burglarized and computers stolen — forcing her to move her office from a trailer near the four - lane blacktop highway that cuts through south Louisiana to a cozy file - filled cottage on her property across from sugar cane fields.

The extreme heat makes the blacktop / asphalt wear off on to the bottom of our shoes and feet and then rubs off on to the flooring in our homes.

The record of his visit to the nearby Klan stronghold of Cottonwood, for instance, consists mostly of brooding shots of trees — their past use was much on his mind, and he didn't expect the people would want to be filmed — followed by a view of the two - lane blacktop along which he fled after two boys approached him, called him by name, and instructed him to wait because some people were coming to see him.

Something new that has happened only in this 2K is that you do not go through College, instead you prove yourself on the «Proving Ground» which is like Blacktop but it's where scouts find you, and once that's finished instead of going through the NBA Draft, you get to choose your own team, which I found very difficult.

What follows is, like many of Payne's films, a road movie of sorts, winding its way through Wyoming and South Dakota, slate - colored skies hanging over pastureland and lonely blacktop, last - stop diners standing on the edge of nowhere.

It's less about what happens on the court than how class, race and community affect everything off the blacktop.

Alas, legends don't necessarily show up even as a blip on the Hollywood radar, so such enigmatic, eloquent, often brilliant, always inimitable films as Two Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, China 9 / Liberty 37, and Iguana have emerged sporadically, with limited - to - nonexistent theatrical release.

Other Stuff We Watched West of Memphis The Staircase 2: Last Chance Qatsi Trilogy Two - Lane Blacktop The Impossible Hitchcock Catch Me if You Can The Paperboy Homeland Murder on a Sunday Morning War Witch (Rebelle)

And its stoic directional stability prevails even on bumpy patchwork blacktop.

With warm tires and on dry blacktop, take - off often is a brief and shrill shouting match, but as soon as the first raindrops fall, the chip - controlled guardian angels work overtime by means of diligent torque distribution (between the rear wheels) and cautiously dosed torque vectoring (by momentarily decelerating those two wheels that are closest to the apex).

We took the Clubsport S up to the Yorkshire Dales to test it on classic, bumpy British blacktop and it was simply superb.

Which we did repeatedly in the stunning canyons just off the coast of the Gulf of Oman outside the capital of Muscat and on long, empty, undulating strips of freshly laid blacktop in the Sharqiya Desert.

If you ever forget that the Tesla is based on a Lotus Elise, a few miles of twisty blacktop provide a quick reminder.

On some road surfaces we found the tire noise from the 245 / 40R 19 Hankook Optimo tires to be unacceptably loud, but smooth blacktop resulted in virtually no tire noise.

Does this happen on a particular type of surface (blacktop, asphalt, etc.)?

New for 2015 Ralleye Appearance Package and Blacktop Packages are now available on more models.

From one moment to the next, supercharger whine and exhaust trumpets set the tone, the nineteen - inch winter tires struggle to connect even on clear blacktop, and the quick steering develops a newfound lightness.

The F430 rides the bumpy blacktop on the sinuous mountain roads near Ferrari «s Maranello headquarters amazingly well for a sports car that has nineteen - inch wheels and rubber - band tires.

The 2015 Ford Mustang is too noisy at speed, too unsettled on broken pavement, and a bit too ponderous through twisties, but find a stretch of reasonably wide, relatively smooth blacktop, and the brash American will put a bigger grin on your face than many of the self - important performance machines that populate this country.

Especially through undulating corners, on off - camber blacktop, and along aquaplaning grooves, it sometimes feels as if car and driver are debating who is in charge.

In the wet and on cold blacktop, you should pussyfoot the semi-slicks to avoid snap oversteer, but on dry and smooth surfaces breakaway is surprisingly smooth and manageable for a 500 - hp, rear - engine sports car.

The Gordini might have the edge in initial excitement and involvement, but the Cooper S has its pace covered on the Peak District's smoother sections of writhing blacktop, staying composed, unruffled and nailed to the Renault's rear diffuser.

Functional performance hood that debuted on new 2018 Durango SRT is now available on Durango GT when equipped with Blacktop or Brass Monkey Appearance Package

The 30th Anniversary edition will be available on SE and SXT models, as will an available Blacktop appearance package.