Sentence examples for come sliding down from inspiring English sources

As for the book's final scenes, in which all of Beard's earlier lies, betrayals and schemes come sliding down together in a gigantic avalanche, they feel oddly perfunctory and rushed: an unsatisfying ending to what is ultimately one of the immensely talented Mr. McEwan's decidedly lesser efforts.

Mud flows could come sliding down Mt. Rainer.

When the plant closed, a lathe came sliding down, like a foot a day, until it hit an oak.

We'd just finished ice-axe training when this man came sliding down above us.

"Once, he took me hiking up the ski slopes, and then we came sliding down all of the slopes on our backpacks by the moonlight," she said.

Not some fat guy in a red suit who comes sliding down the chimney, but the idea that a homeless man will be given gloves and a scarf to keep warm or an abandoned child will find a loving home.

Varlam Shalamov wrote about an incident in a Kolyma camp when a mass grave of zeks who had died some time ago came sliding down a mountainside; the cold had kept the bodies undecayed, so that faces could still be recognized.

and the chicken and the way they would see it when it came sliding down their newsfeed paired with a headline about "resisting arrest".

And just to make a climbing goat's life that much more difficult, one side of the metal sheet is guarded by a billy goat ready to head-butt anything that comes sliding down his side.

According to Arnab Ray of Daily News and Analysis, Khan brought a new kind of acting as "he came, sliding down stairs on a slab of ice, cartwheeling, somersaulting, lips trembling, eyes trembling, bringing to the screen the kind of physical energy ... visceral, intense, maniacal one moment and cloyingly boyish the next".

Don't slide down the gray scale.