Sentences with word «skates»

He also skates over events of apparently huge historical significance and focuses on the life of a clearly anachronistic figure, a horsey girl from the British provinces who becomes Empress Dowager and a modern seeker after truth.

Then we'll really see the substitutes get out on the pond, rusty skates or not.

And what is true of bread is also true of electricity, water, Fritos, lunch money, good books, calculators and roller skates.

Some skates come with faster bearings, such as ABEC - 3 or ABEC - 5.

After you are in the skates standing, get used to standing and crouching with your hands forward while in the skates.

Choose a slightly larger wheel if you want to go faster or want them to last longer (note: make sure the new wheels you buy fit your skates!).

Move your arms to one side, and usually your skates will follow with you.

[+] The best way to get up from the ground on skates is to first bring up one knee while the other is knee is on the ground.

Inline skates either come with laces, buckles that snap on, or both.

Another aspect of inline skates is bearing choice; in inline skates, two bearings are in each wheel.

[+] Once you are comfortable standing on pavement in your skates, try pushing yourself forward, slowly with one skate, while the other points the direction to want you go.

Bearings can also be bought separately, usually where inline skates are sold.

To get used to the skates, start out in dry grass.

The wheels that fit most skates are 76 mm.

After trying to skates out at a store, make sure they are not rubbing against your ankles (this will create blisters).

There are many choices of skates, as well as wheels, bearings, brakes and spacers.

The laces tighten and hold automatically like a ski boot, and the ABEC - 5 wheels in the TR and FT spin longer than all the skates I have seen.

First, let's talk about skates.

We «prepared» our children, as parents always do, for a world we wanted, We told ourselves that buying the best children's records and books, providing ballet, guitar or painting lessons, purchasing bicycles and ice skates, paying for summer camp and birthday parties would somehow convey to our children how much we loved them.

Steinem's memorable quip, «A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,» is transformed in Feinberg to the clunkier, «A woman needs a man like an armadillo needs roller skates.»

I kept imagining I saw shadowy forms, and at 3 A.M. the underwear I had draped over a chair resembled the Kaiser on roller skates.»

He skates lightly over the thin ice that covers the abyss of nihilism.

photo © 2010 jayneandd more info (via: Wylio) I am from second hand skates, from Tim Hortons doughnuts and epic Barbie sagas.

I couldn't do that if I didn't lace up the skates and get out there and play.»

Prince was known to bust out a pair of bejeweled roller skates, go door - to - door as a Jehovah's Witness and paint rented mansions purple.

I suggest you stop feeding your cats so much road kill, then you can get rid of the roller skates.

The government took a stab at cross-border price differences in the 2013 budget when it eliminated tariffs on baby clothing and sports equipment — rates as high as 18 per cent for skates — to try to narrow the gap.

Store: I visited the store, tried on the new skates (heaven on my feet!)

And it meant I immediately needed a new pair of skates.

The plate is used for «grinding» — a decidedly teen - based activity that involves sliding down stair rails, park benches, or any available concrete edge in parks and other public spaces, typically on skateboards or with in - line skates.

Delivery: Three days later, I had the skates at home.

Pretty soon he's busting skulls on his way to a climactic confrontation with Ross (the Boss) Rhea (played by Liev Schreiber), an aging enforcer about to hang up his skates.

The call center employee found the exact same skates in a nearby store and reserved a pair for me.

We now refer to magazine cover photos as «photoshopped»; we «windex» our windows to remove streaks; we «xerox» exhibits; we «rollerblade» down the street on our inline skates; we «wite - out» the mistakes in a term paper; and we read a news article about the police «tasering» a resistant suspect.

Krimmel, who skates under the name Mickispeedia, practices with the Brawlers two to five times a week and competes roughly seven times a year.

Recently, I was even asked if I wanted to pay US$ 20 to insure a pair of $ 80 ice skates beyond the three - month warranty or $ 12 to protect a $ 40 television cable for a «lifetime» of protection — a quarter of each product's price in exchange for extra «peace of mind.»

With the Boring Company, Musk aims to build a network of underground tunnels in Los Angeles that would move cars on electric skates.

The batteries in the skates also have a range of about 10 miles before they need to be recharged.

How did this teenage skate obsessive end up with a career as a philosopher?

What used to be a stage is now a storage warehouse with a skate bowl above.

As a kid, he recalled roller skating to school up Fifth Avenue, followed by the family limousine.

You're better at skating.

«I spent so much time at the skate park that I got really good and sponsors started noticing.

I was completely obsessed with skating,» he explained in an email.

We watch some Olympic figure skating and discuss what's going on with the kids and a house project.

Benenson, who says he is a lead data engineer at Kickstarter, barely skated past his funding goal, scraping by with just $ 176 extra dollars.

So I took a step back from the business and focused on skating.

Snow - covered rice paddies have been replaced by Olympic skating rinks.

He tells us about keeping cool under pressure, inspiring the troops even when you're not winning, and skating away from the scrum on your own terms:

Danone's luxury water brand earned its first taste of viral immortality with 2009's «Roller Babies,» which featured CGI infants tackling extreme roller - skating stunts.