Sentences with word «skitter»

The pan or griddle is ready if a drop of water skitters across the surface, evaporating immediately.

Especially giant spiders — giant spiders with spiny legs that skitter around on needle - point claws, meticulously working bone - crushing chelicerae framed by sharp, venom - filled fangs, peering into your soul with their glassy, alien stares of desperate hunger.

I ducked my head, hiding until the bat - wing skitter of attention had dissipated.

Getting caught no longer means you're immediately reaching for the quick load button, and can instead choose to tackle the enemies with your array of combat options, or quickly skitter away with a little dose of magic.

Driving through curves with midcorner washboard, wheel control is much improved with less skittering on the front wheels.

That's to be expected with payload ranges in the 635 -735-kg-range and not something that sends the rear end skittering about.

Suddenly there are two swirls, then three more, then a dozen, and the bait fish skitter over the water and the birds dive.

Mice nervously skitter into view, then pop back; a cat slinks through the cluttered studio, its eyes a swarming, phosphorescent white; the eyes of an animal smolder beyond the studio's sliding glass door.

It didn't roll across as much as skitter.

Of course, the other way to deal with skittering thoughts is through baking.

A few crisp brown leaves skittered along the pavement.

Guentzel scored from nearly the same spot just over six minutes later, flicking a rebound off the end boards that hit Anderson's left leg and skittered in for his 22nd of the season.

The males skittered out of their holding tubes toward the corpse and duked it out, competing for the affection of their unimpressed audience.

Except, when it comes to Martian life, «spider» has a different definition, and it doesn't involve arachnids skittering all over the red planet.

«Interesting,» the ophthalmologist said, rolling away from Cynthia Barnes in his wheeled chair, like a water bug skittering for cover when the lights went on in the middle of the night.

This hodge - podge of dental torture, putative madness, and a very clumsy use of eels as metaphor wears out its welcome well before the final credits roll, skittering at the end, and pell - mell at that, towards an ending that is painfully obvious and even more painfully trite.

Trying to grasp him, or even root for him, the mind skitters like a spider in a sink.

Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the researchers observed the molecule skittering back and forth along the rows of atoms.

Moby skittered onto the screen in his diapers.

Water strider bugs skitter across ponds almost as if they were skating on ice.

«Transformers: Knight at the Museum» skitters nervously from a Dakota Badlands auto junkyard, inhabited by Autobots in hiding, to London to Stonehenge to Havana to Cybertron.

Because the film is told — in narration and in its cinematography — from the point of view of Ma's five - year - old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who has lived his whole life within the space, Abrahamson was able to focus his lens on the minutiae that feed a child's imagination: dust swirling in sunlight, eggs being cracked into a bowl, the novelty of a rat skittering across the floor.

A persistent skittering sound from the darkened space between floor and baseboard pulls Isabella from an uneasy sleep.

At Ille Arts, a superb group of her pen and ink drawings rapidly made in various corners of the East End skitters with the kind of energy heard in a string quartet by Czek composer Janacek, lightness combined with incisiveness.

The keyboard touchpad is also problematic, sending your cursor skittering around at manic speeds most of the time, but slowing to a crawl unexpectedly, and sporadically failing to register any input at all.

Some have looping and slashing gestures that recall exercises in penmanship; others bear long skittering lines like fissures or faults in a block of granite.

If you hate the thought of dog - hair tumbleweeds skittering across the floor, consider a short - coated breed.

When clouds skittered overhead, they would fly to the tree branches to huddle together in huge beehive - like clumps to stay warm.

But on the wall, its materiality and scale send the eye skittering across the surface, often so dizzyingly that the composition appears to heave, swell and jitter.

Adding to the problem is too much skittering around the themes that Crowe wants to include.

Squatting in the garden, hands full of dirt, watching worms twist and spiders skitter off towards the violets, I'm reminded that life is messy and full of unknowns.

Once you become an anxious mouse skittering frenetically on the treadmill of life it can be a bit hard to get off and take -LSB-...]

Germany's 10YY keeps skittering on 32bp, but the Euro is shrugging off weaker EU retail sales.

Bunnies and squirrels skitter across freshly mown lawns....

As I transferred the sheet pan from the oven to a waiting baking rack, I must have lost focus for a moment, because an instant later I was watching — in seemingly slow motion — the pie pan skittering off the baking sheet to imminent death below, the crust shattering on impact and the whole gingery, beautiful mess landing ingloriously in a slump on the kitchen floor.

When I lived in Washington, a mouse did a similar skitter across the kitchen floor while I was putting away dishes.

Tom Feuer skittered around the San Francisco offices of Quokka Sports searching for a functioning computer.

The puck skittered away and the save keeps the Kings hopes of clinching the Cup at home alive.

Being crafty is synonymous with being creative, and creative people don't need to show the same stuff again and again because their mind, and hands, have already skittered on to one of the next eleventy - million things they're itching to make.

I always double stitch bean bags, for fear of thousands of little beans skittering across the floor, but you could get away with just once if you are braver.

But I noticed that we got past onshore windfarms in one sentence and skittered straight on to nuclear power.

It is this realignment that transfers energy into Earth's atmospheric system, by setting off a chain reaction of shifting electric and magnetic fields that can send the particles already trapped near Earth skittering in all directions.

Unlike the quick spiders you might see skittering up a garden shed wall, Wood says, stalking pelicans are «slow and deliberate.»

Dry leaves collect against the air handlers by the main doorway; whiptail lizards skitter over the concrete paths, and javelinas trot around the grounds at night.

The BBP formula is written in a certain easily recognizable form, and the duo hypothesize that the value of formulas of that sort (except for particularly boring ones) will skitter chaotically among numbers between 0 and 1.

From the outside, people look like tiny space heaters skittering across the globe: six - and - a-half billion appliances each set to about 91 degrees, the average temperature of human skin.

For over 100 million years, mammals skittered and scurried through a dinosaur - dominated world.

Some observers have compared the waves of skittering crabs to scenes from a horror movie.