Sentence examples for amounts of speed from inspiring English sources

It's possible to find yourself hanging onto the steering wheel if you try to tackle a roundabout with injudicious amounts of speed – funny, perhaps, but not fun.

The catalyst -- character" would be too generous a term -- at the heart of the novel's mayhem is Mal, a screw-up in his early 30's who lives with his mother and consumes massive amounts of speed.

One possible cause is a hypothetical explosion that might have occurred soon after the Big Bang genesis event, an explosion powerful enough to channel vast amounts of speeding matter into a common direction.

"He's a horse with an enormous amount of speed and is an incredible athlete.

"There is almost certainly some amount of speed that depends on learning" to be swift enough to bring down prey.

The pilots, however, became disoriented and one of them inadvertently pulled the plane's nose up, so it climbed and lost a dangerous amount of speed.

The large amount of speed differential in V85 between the two successive elements along a highway reflects lack of speed consistency in the highway section.

His car immediately spun towards the inside of the corner and hit the Armco barrier nose-on, although Perez was able to scrub a fair amount of speed off after the initial impact.

But as Gene also noted, Formula One still attracts the highest level of engineers to try to squeeze out the maximum amount of speed from within the restricted regulations.

"His pace against Salah, who is quick and moves a lot," was the reason the manager gave for his selection; that hardly needed explaining but no amount of speed could mitigate for the lack of protection from his team-mates, which was in evidence twice during the first half when he was left two-on-one for successive back-post headers from Firmino.

To leave the surface of any planet, you need a certain amount of speed.