Sentences with phrase «then turning on a dime»

Hummingbirds are the fighter pilots of the avian world, diving and weaving at speeds of up to 55 kilometers per hour — then turning on a dime to hover midair, wings frantically beating, as they refuel on nectar.

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Her personality is so pleasant and then she can turn on a dime when she wants to nurse.
An acrimoniously aggressive scene that turns emotionally on a dime into profound sorrow, then regret and then enters sexy - sexy territory of desire, graduating to utmost disgust and resignation.
Tragedy and humor and spine - tingling action run side by side in this tale; Robinson pulls helpless laughter out of you with the high - jinks of his adrenaline - junkie young heroes, then turns the pace on a dime and has you mopping your eyes as the cruel odds of aerial battles against enemy Messerschmitts sends the irrepressible fliers you've come to love spiraling one by one to their deaths.
You can really ride the board forward and get a ton of speed but then step back and turn it on a dime.
Then, switching things up on the turn of a dime, forcing you to sit through a full blown, live - action movie.
Then that prevailing wisdom turned on a dime and global warming was upon us.
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