Sentences with phrase «skittered in»

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.

I can't have ridden far through the Christmas hills — maybe three or four miles — when I came over a rise and spotted one of the horses, skittering in front of a worn farmhouse.

Not exact matches

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.

On lakes and rivers across the country, fleets of skinny boats will skitter over the water like giant insects, their wooden legs moving in unison.

(Liston's stalking style is, in fact, reminiscent of Louis», and Marshall, with his skittering, crablike mannerisms, is not unlike Walcott.)

Then, in the eighth, with players on first and third, Willson Contreras and Mike Montgomery got crossed up on a third strike and it hit Contreras in the arm and skittered away from the plate.

Nano Nitro is a micro robotic bug that once switched on, can skitter its way through any maze and even chase a fellow nano Nitro in a high - speed race!

Those runs must be deliberately wanted to cover just level, smooth surfaces, and awesome consideration must be taken in securing and cushioning the kid while you ran, on the grounds that the stroller tended to skitter each which route on the way because of its shopping basket wheels.

When the insects have located a dense patch of flowers or a source of water, they skitter across the honeycomb in their hive in a pattern related to the direction of and the distance to the site.

According to research published online in August in Nature Neuroscience, the mammalian brain seems to do the same, collapsing the world into a flat plane even as the animal skitters up trees and slips deep into burrows.

Moby skittered onto the screen in his diapers.

Pulling up to a park on East Kelowna road, we took a few snaps there before skittering across the street to a little apple orchard (at least I think these were apple trees, I guess they could also have been pear) and nestling down among the newly bloomed branches for a few minutes in the light of a pale, serenely lovely late afternoon sunset.

There are montages of newspaper clippings and funny little animated episodes, with cutouts skittering across the image, as in a Monty Python sketch.

A dance syncretism made of menacing beats skittering from dark dancehall to mashed - up jungle, super-warped bass frequencies, stark anti-hooks, and a voice that is the most authentic to emerge in years.

«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.

This isn't quite as classic or convincing (the special effects are limited to extreme close - ups of grasshoppers matted into live action footage or, even better, skittering up and sliding down photos of Chicago skyscrapers) but where else can you see Peter Graves machine - gunning a giant grasshopper with teeth gritted as in a comic book drawing?

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.

Even the cliché tropes of action flicks come in for a good - natured ribbing, as Ethan skitters through the seamy backstreets of exotic locales, and dons a tuxedo for chi - chi society events.

Where this disc truly distinguishes itself — indeed, excels — is in its DTS - HD MA presentation of the 5.1 remix, which better balances the dialogue, beefs up the bottom end, and facilitates a more transparent soundstage: now Chucky skitters around the viewer in seamless pans instead of occasionally popping up like a whack - a-mole in the rear channels.

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

This morning, as I drove to work in a light rain, I was bemused by the GT's severe shuddering and skittering at the rear when I tried to accelerate into a hard left - hand turn at the end of an exit ramp, but this might get old pretty quickly.

At first it's fun — mesmerising in fact — to tuck into the F40's wake and watch it skitter and lunge up the road, tyres hunting for traction under full boost, then brake lights burning even when the road is straight as Wallace cries enough and takes a breath.

Ford has done a commendable job in making the most of this arcane setup, but on broken back - county roads, the GT500's tail hops and skitters over road imperfections, resulting in a car that feels busier than it feels composed.

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

ON THE COOL OCTOBER MORNING when Cayetana Chávez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling leaves, and small red birds skittered through the corrals, and the dogs grew new coats.

«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.

He said most skittered out in a green, wooded area.

One of the perks of having a cat is watching them skitter and skid across the floor in pursuit of a toy — as the many cat videos that have captivated the public have shown, cats have the ability to provide endless hours of entertainment and laughter.

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

Once again, mothers force their chicks out after just a few days to skitter down cliffs hundreds of feet high and crash in the ocean.

In the final lap the tires hit «the wall», as it is referred to in the real life sport, and all semblance of grip vanished, leaving me to skitter around the track, ultimately managing to finish ahead of the charging Aussie in his Bull by just 1 - seconIn the final lap the tires hit «the wall», as it is referred to in the real life sport, and all semblance of grip vanished, leaving me to skitter around the track, ultimately managing to finish ahead of the charging Aussie in his Bull by just 1 - seconin the real life sport, and all semblance of grip vanished, leaving me to skitter around the track, ultimately managing to finish ahead of the charging Aussie in his Bull by just 1 - seconin his Bull by just 1 - second.

As we struggled to reach the end of our journey, the sound of my mage's fireballs incinerating their target joined in chorus with the thud of massive hammers, metallic twang of steel and impact of our archer's arrows on seemingly endless waves of lethal, skittering Skaven.

This mechanical ƒ is a denizen of the mine I find myself in, just one of an endless spawning, skittering army that explode upon sensing an intruder.

Three generations of Lodgers have occupied the cabin, but lately, the walls seem to undulate, skittering unknowns shift in the darkness, and an unruly growl seeps from the attic.

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.

Or: it might be the hullaballoo of Buster Keaton skittering and sliding with his cardboard chimney over the roof of the flat - pack house that he must assemble in haste for his pretty new wife in the short film One Week (1920).

One of the best shows to be seen in New York since the turn of the century, it proves that contrary to decades of received opinion, Picasso didn't skitter irretrievably into an abyss of kitsch, incoherence or irrelevance after this or that high - water mark....

The models, apparently thinking a hobo was in their midst, squealed and skittered out of Joseph's way.

«In Udomsak's earliest works, meaning slips and skitters across their smooth monochromatic surfaces or sinks between the pin pricks of light in a blanket of blacIn Udomsak's earliest works, meaning slips and skitters across their smooth monochromatic surfaces or sinks between the pin pricks of light in a blanket of blacin a blanket of black.

In Winnipeg's case, that's probably a fair trade - off for floods, blackflies, and locusts (ok, «skitters»).