Sentences with phrase «slugging through»

As I'm slugging through my first official start of the season with my VR project I got the keyword alert for this forum.

Unity isn't the only epic historical action assassin tale Axalon is slugging through.

Gears of War 4 and Fallout 3 are both great examples of the Xbox One X's capabilities, but having played Assassin's Creed Origins at 4K, it is the best looking game I've ever seen, particularly since I've been slugging through the blurry Xbox One S version over the past few days.

However, I'm still slugging through the rehash segment (s) of DISSIDIA 012, and I need to start getting back on track with Pokémon Black Version (my sis's b / f is playing White, and keeps harpin» on me to catch up).

You don't need to slug through a workout counting down the seconds until it's over.

I have slugged through about 150 pages and dislike it so much I stopped reading it.

This gives me the added push to slug through until I'm finished.

You slugged through a tough round with your debt.

Adam writes «The expectation was understandably high, especially after the offensive offerings that fans had to slug through before «The Taken King» launched.

The one redeeming feature is that any XP gained while playing online can be used to unlock abilities for single player and vice versa, but I honestly don't know why you would want to replay the campaign or slug through the vacant online matches.

In this platform shooter the player guides Van Slug through fairly vast levels populated...

Some late - game dungeons are seriously mind - bending with some still leaving me scratching my head as to how I managed it, but despite a small lack of balance in these dungeons, they're still enjoyable to slug through regardless.

To read Slug through this gift of words (albeit someone else's) as «an extension of the interior life of the giver, both in space and time, into the interior life of the receiver» [2] allows us to perceive the slug in its dialectical sense: as a $ 50 gold coin, for sure, but also its opposite, a counterfeit, a token used to subvert a slot machine's understanding of exchange value.

Not exact matches

The engineers also had to overcome a challenge not associated with low - slug sedans — top - heavy SUVs have a tendency to tip over if they fly through a corner too fast.

It may also cheer you to know that slugging it out through the midlife stress squeeze isn't for nothing.

Thorny though that is, I think I can slug my way through it.

While zooming through three levels of the minor leagues last season, Snider batted.275 -LRB-.349 OBP,.480 slugging) with 23 home runs and 91 RBIs.After a late - August call - up to the majors he hit.301 in 24 games and now saysthat playing in the big leagues was «easier than I thought.»

While we all slugged our way through the the mud to our cars and got home, the RV had to stay an extra day or two — it was a very «ripe» mess to clean up afterwards.

Forget Gattis's home runs, slugging percentage (through Sunday it was.593, fourth highest in the National League among players with at least 150 plate appearances) and the 6» 4», 235 - pound frame and compact, batting gloveless righthanded swing that exude old school strength.

One thing needs clarifying before revisiting the turbulent boxing career of Joey Giardello: «My name is Carmine Tilelli,» says the man who slugged his way through 133 professional bouts over a 19 - year span and wore the world middleweight belt from 1963 to» 65.

With a.351 on - base percentage,.515 slugging percentage, four home runs and a team - leading 18 RBIs through Sunday, he had helped boost the Dodgers (12 - 6) to a 2 1/2 - game lead in the NL West.

Glenn's introduction to «the healing powers of water» occurred in 1970, when as a Cobra gunship copilot in Vietnam he was hit by a.30 caliber machine - gun slug that passed through his left leg and severed the femoral vein.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

STICK TEST Researchers put an adhesive inspired by the chemical structure of slug slime through its paces.

Firstly, earthworms improved the plant's ability to protect itself against slugs perhaps through the build - up of nitrogen - containing toxic compounds.

Mixing garlic with water to spray on your plants is a natural pesticide to prevent caterpillars, slugs, and other insects from chewing their way through your garden.

Gunslugs is an action - packed mix of Metal Slug and Spelunky, seeing the player fight through randomly generated stages with only one life to live.

The singing slugs run us through a familiar soundtrack of such ditties as Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself, Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy and Burt Bacharach's What's New Pussycat.

You've got Delta Squad's Baird and Cole front and center as the Slugs start to break through the surface.

Two other eccentrics appear: an old woman raking through her incinerated home for her pilot's license, and feeling «like I'm digging through my own ashes»; and Lance LeGault's ornery old moonshine - slugging trucker (pictured above), bluntly impatient of these callow fools but sympathetic to them, in a somewhat terrifying way.

We played through an early level of the game and picked up familiar weapons, like the shotgun, the enemy chaser, the heavy machine gun, and the dual Uzis that were first introduced in Metal Slug 4 on the NeoGeo.

The outstanding opening sequence as mano a mano, he slugs his way through the clawing pale War Boys, leads to failure.

What is presumably either Billy or Jimmy's girlfriend gets mercilessly slugged and kidnapped in the beginning and the duo brawl through those same old streets on a collision course with the original's first boss, Abobo, who looks as if he's sampled more than his fair share of steroids since his last showdown with the boys.

Metal Slug 2 benefits from this, as I found that playing through the game with another player greatly increased my enjoyment and cut down on the frustration of dying every time the combat got crazy.

Killers human and supernatural rampage through this impressive black box, as Jay Chattaway's gritty «Maniac» brings 80's NYC synth sleaze to Joe Spinell's sweaty mannequin lover, while Michael Convertino's strikingly original score to «The Hidden's» body jumping alien slug still stands as one of the genre's most bizarrely percussive and effective soundtracks, samples creating a sound that's violently otherworldly, which also capturing the haunted spirit of the relentless E.T. cop out to bring him in.

It's been a long time since the Bayou Butcher slugged his hatchet through the marshes of this spooky Louisiana territory, but...

Even the regular, non-Performance Pack GT gets a set of monotube dampers in the rear for a tighter, quicker reaction, but the MagneRide suspension — available as an optional extra with Performance Pack 1, and made standard with PP2 — takes things a step further, all but negating the effects of the GT's big, heavy slug of aluminum in the nose, dialing - out the GT's noted tendency to shove through corners.

It's perhaps the result of publishers working their cost base harder as they slug it out over market share through «crowding out» strategies, as well as making up for diminished average per - title sales by pumping out more product.

Some parasites come from swallowing infected fleas, rodents, snails, slugs, or birds — others through contact with contaminated stool, or via an infected mother's milk.

Host of the TV series Word Travels, broadcast on National Geographic Adventure and Travel Channel UK across over 100 countries and 21 languages, I've had some pretty amazing adventures as a solo female around the world — from hiking with mountain gorillas in Uganda, to touring radioactive Chernobyl, camel trekking through the Middle East, to devouring live slugs and deep - fried bugs in jungles and back alleys across the globe.

Through the 12 dives we did (max of 17 possible), the following were encountered: spotted eagle ray, barracudas (one was 3.5 ft), angel fish (many varieties), parrot fish (many varieties), jacks, snappers (many varieties), sergeant majors, wrasse (many varieties), rock beauties, butterfly fish, damselfish, blue chromis, trunkfish, moray eels (couple of varieties), blue tangs, doctor fish, flying fish (on the Blue Hole trip), grunts, graysby, basslets, puffers, gobies, file fish, turtles, flounders, lobster, banded coral shrimp, lettuce leaf slug».

Jump, puzzle, and shoot through spaceships and their systems as vanguard robot SLUG.

Use various weapons and slugs to fight your way through and survive on the battlefield!!

The downloadable GGPO client supported many games from Capcom and SNK, including Super Street Fighter II Turbo, The King of Fighters 2002, and Metal Slug X through the use of a built - in emulator.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

To help you through, you'll have an arsenal of useful items such as the Telewarp, Freeze - O - Matic or the indispensible Slug Sucker!

Following the winning Metal Slug formula, your must fight through four themed worlds.

The big gripe is who is at fault, I have had many instances where I had simply used a racing line or slightly defended my position through corners, not moving off my racing line, contact is made by the over aggressive passer and I was slugged.

The game's single - player campaign leaves a lot to be desired, but like Metal Slug, the real fun comes in when you grab some friends (three in this case) and blaze your way through the levels as a four - strong unit.

So finally... I loved playing through some of these titles (Metal Slug, Fatal Fury, Magician Lord, Shock Troopers) and didn't like some others (not a fan of Samurai Showdown, Baseball Starts and Neo Turf — but thats» personal choice — the games play just fine).