Sentence examples for dropped main from inspiring English sources

In that fateful stage in 2012, Froome, who finished the tour second before winning it himself last year, had dragged his team leader Wiggins up with Vincenzo Nibali and Jurgen van den Broeck and dropped main rival Cadel Evans in the process, when he decided to pull away.

Froome, who finished the tour second before winning it himself in 2013, had dragged his team leader Wiggins up with Vincenzo Nibali and Jurgen van den Broeck and dropped main rival Cadel Evans in the process, when he decided to pull away.

His crucial acceleration when he dropped his main rival Alberto Contador and effectively netted both stage win and probably the Tour outright - seated, legs flailing and elbows out - was anything but elegant.

Yesterday I had a moment of panic when I dropped my main mobile phone — Helio's Ocean — into a mug of hot, steamy coffee.

They added a nice old school vibe in the areas where I dropped the main bass drum and snare, but weren't overbearing enough to drown out the other elements involved.

The offender balls are used to hit players who are HOLDING THE MAIN to make them drop the main, hitting any other player without the main is considered a foul and the opposing team will claim a free throw.

Gazing somberly at us, she looks like a version of Eve or the Madonna who has toppled out of Renaissance painting without dropping her main prop.

"We served our opponents something that made them drop the main issue and take us to the margins — this is what we accomplished with our bad performance".

The sentence flowed from a plea bargain in which the US government agreed to drop the main terrorist charges against him in return for a guilty plea to a lesser charge: that he had knowingly disposed of records that could be used in a terrorism investigation.

Dropping the main idea deep in the story or at its end is known as "burying the lede" and is used to hide the main element of the story from the reader, or to allow secondary issues to overwhelm her so that she misses the most important point when it's presented.

Results indicate that for a viscous liquid jet, formation of satellite drops between main drops is favored by the addition of surfactants.