Sentences with phrase «skittering at»

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.

Not exact matches

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

For this regimen, the animals were placed on little treadmills and required to sprint at a very rapid and strenuous pace for three minutes, followed by two minutes of slow skittering, with the entire sequence repeated twice more, for a total of 15 minutes of running.

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.

«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.

For instance, a basic chat at a bar turns into a nausea - inducing presentation as the image jumps and skitters.

It posits an Earth where the dinosaur - ending comet misses impact, leading to millions of years of evolved adaptations and ending, as the film begins, with the emergence of homo sapiens on schedule, but skittering around on all fours and howling at their saurian masters.

Our speeds are never high, but our angles of inclination are, as we creep up and skitter down steep grades, lean at extreme angles around banked turns, and cross V - shaped gullies.

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.

Over rougher surfaces, the Fit can skitter and clunk at times, but not nearly to the extent of the less stiff first - generation model.

At anything approaching highway speeds the suspension skitters uncontrollably over bumps, and the best thing to be said about the steering and brakes is that, yes, there is some.

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.

On the night walks at Pashan Garh and Banjaar Tola, eager - eyed visitors can see an array of rare wildlife, such as owls and nightjars and hear the calls of the skitter.

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 amount of cosmic radiation changes over time as our solar system skitters through the spiraling arms of the Milky Way at the edge of the galaxy.