Sentences with phrase «skitters like»

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

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.

Slowly, now, the line starts to take on more order — perhaps like the one that launched the great Oklahoma land rush — and most of the horses are skittering and nervously tossing their heads.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

Circles fracture into dipping scimitar arcs and parabolas, and skitter off like the tracks of escaping particles.