Sentences with phrase «screeching turns»

Squealing tires and screeching turns, competitive drivers with sweaty palms and laser focus, crowds alternately screaming profanities and gritting teeth from the starting light to the photo finish — it's not NASCAR or Formula 1.

SAN FRANCISCO — A potentially pivotal lawsuit between Uber and Alphabet's Waymo over allegedly stolen self - driving vehicle sensor technology just took another screeching turn.

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If investors had to evaluate, sign, and keep track of an NDA for every business plan, pitch deck, and executive summary that came their way, the investment process would turn into a burdensome nightmare and investor activity would screech to a halt.

We raced into a turn and — good Lord — the tires screeched in protest, but Gerdes was trying to push its limits.

It's such a contrast from every other tee box, where the softest noise from your camera phone brings a record - screeching halt to everything and prompts every caddie and player on the tee to immediately turn and glare.

You may not think she's paying attention while on all those drives, but just watch her play with cars and make all the sounds of starting an engine, speeding up, turn signals, screeching brakes, honking horns and more.

But he has now performed a screeching handbrake turn.

Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, efforts to ban the gadgets known as bump stocks — which the Las Vegas killer might have used to turn rifles into machines guns — have come to a screeching halt.

Suddenly, traffic screeches to a halt, streets shut down and you sit in bumper to bumper traffic for almost two extra hours, turning a 30 - minute ride into a 3 - hour event!

Heather Graham gets to do little more than smile sweetly and expose a breast in her brief scenes, but she could still argue that she gets better treatment than Rachael Harris, who plays Stu's girlfriend as a nightmarish, one - dimensional bitch, screeching at him relentlessly and turning away whenever he tries to kiss her.

It's also a joy to listen to the deep - throated exhaust notes of the world's foremost supercars, the tiny, authentic cockpit noises that arise when pushing them to the limit, and the panic - inducing sound of your tires screeching because you're braking too hard, too late into a turn.

Not far into her road trip, she feels pangs of guilt, but before she can turn around and give the money back, she stops at The Bates Motel where she meets uber - polite proprietor Norman and hears his mother screeching from the old dark house next door.

Jeff Grace's musical score heightens the There Will Be Blood comparison, its spooky cello sonorities sounding like Jonny Greenwood's screeching atonal strings in the Paul Thomas Anderson film but with the volume level turned way down.

Every action scene functions as a choreographed dance number, with gunshots and screeching wheels marking perfect time with the music, and Elgort turns in some winning lip - sync - and - dance moments that help establish Baby's character beyond his signature quirk.

The striking doors that open toward the sky turn heads like the screech of an eagle, as does the vociferous burbling, popping, and crackling of the V - 8.

All of a sudden I turn the car to start makes a screeching noise but I turn it off it stays on.

As for the drums, they too screech a bit, and I know it's not time to change the shoes yet, so turning them was my next step.

After a week of driving, the power steering started to screech whenever I turned the wheels while the engine was cold (with warm engine the eerie screeching sound...

The caliper bracket needed replaced because it had been grinding a bit too (I suspect that it was the screeching noise I heard while turning right).

When I turn the wheel it sorta screeches and then stops.

During the winter, I noticed that sometimes on a (very) cold start, turning the key would result in quite a grinding screech.

After a week of driving, the power steering started to screech whenever I turned the wheels while the engine was cold (with warm engine the eerie screeching sound was gone).

Sometimes too when I make right turns, I hear a screeching sound.

With tires screeching, the 2014 BMW 428i danced through a set of turns and put a big smile on my face.

If I turn the corner hard enough the tires screech.

He saw them in the streets, always from behind, or turning a corner, his father sitting in the bright yellow taxi next to his, shifting in his seat as the cab screeched away in the opposite direction, his mother — dead six months now, though it felt like one long night — hurrying along the sidewalk on a Sunday morning, turning into a store just when Ben had come close enough to see her face.

I've had other tablets, the Pandigital Planet for instance, that make a barely audible high - pitched screeching noise when turned on.

When play fighting there will be little in the way of hissing and screeching and the cats seem to take it in turns as the dominant fighter.

Everywhere you go, you'll be accompanied by a wild cast of characters: a resplendent quetzal on the highland trail; an unruly troupe of howler monkeys screeching through the canopy; or a breaching whale that turns your ferry ride into an adrenaline - rush event.

But when you get a swarm of Rosemary's Babies with mechanical insect bits instead of limbs rushing towards you, screeching through the air or dragging themselves across the floor, that's when you turn on the chainsaw, shut your eyes, and just pray.

Artists frequently motorized their sculptures, turning exhibition spaces into dens of screeching, pulsing, machinelike organisms.

Suddenly «Science» took a screeching right turn and the articles being published were all supportive of global warming.

Given that Lovelock predicted in 2006 that by this century's end «billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable», this new laissez - faire attitude to our environmental fate smells and sounds like of a screeching handbrake turn.