Sentences with phrase «skittering for»

«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.

Your goal is to obfuscate and forestall understanding, because you know as soon as kitchen light comes on, you'd better skitter for a dark corner.

Not exact matches

By the way, for you true believers, I just checked my underwear and I have a skitter that looks just like the baby jesus.

You could do it over a sheet pan instead, for example, but the nuts sometimes pop out of their skins with surprising speed and skitter away from you.

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.

Thanks for the recipe (and sorry about the skittering).

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

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 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.

For years, scientists have noticed rapidly varying electric fields inside dust storms and dust devils, the dirty whirlwinds that skitter across many desert areas.

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

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 runniFor 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 runnifor three minutes, followed by two minutes of slow skittering, with the entire sequence repeated twice more, for a total of 15 minutes of runnifor 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.

As part of its generally welcome comic strategy, «Thor: Ragnarok» heckles itself for two hours and 10 minutes and lets Jeff Goldblum, skittering around as master of the death - match revels on the planet Sakaar, get away with murder.

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

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.

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

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.

Right off, Dave seemed special, a bug - eyed hummingbird of a dog, leaping up stairs and skittering around on feet that never seemed to touch the ground for more than a few microseconds.

Scorpions skitter about, searching for food and looking for love.

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.

Sega's leathery oozing egg sac has slowly peeled open, and a pre-order trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines has jumped out, all skittering and creepy.

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).

If you don't wait for most of the video to load before hitting the play button, playback will skitter and pause frequently.

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