Sentence examples for dipped like from inspiring English sources

slider that dipped like a windblown leaf.

As she talked, her fingers fanned and dipped like hummingbirds with long, red acrylic proboscises.

Earlier this week, optimism among the 74 exhibitors peaked and dipped like this winter's temperatures.

Instead of Dürer, she has Mordecai (Three Finger) Brown, the Chicago Cubs pitcher whose damaged right hand — he lost most of his right index finger in a farming accident — allowed him to throw a ball that dipped like a shot bird.

Spain left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, as the Dominican Republic's Fernando Rodney — his cap tilted at a 70-degree angle — got a called third strike against Rafael Alvarez on a curveball that dipped like a windblown paper airplane.

It's not always clear what dips like these mean.

Rimmed with scarlet, it dips like a fairground ride.

My anxiety followed it, dipping like a mallard, and reappeared, all but unseen, downstream".

Time and again, the action swells and dips, like a wave, then suddenly delivers a salty slap in the face.

If the mower is not becoming clogged by wading through the heaps of soil then it is bucking and dipping like a boat in a brisk chop.

Coward's lines hop and dip like knuckleballs: they're not what they seem and they are hard to see coming.