Sentence examples for glide from inspiring English sources

Grill quickly on both sides and a knife will glide through the middle, allowing the cook to split it into two squares for further toasting.

This means the bill jumped through the first of many procedural hurdles in that chamber and is now on a glide path to passage.

Each afternoon gondolas would glide down our picturesque little canal with camera-snapping tourists who had no hesitation including us in their pictures.

In the astonishing world of plankton, bright pink, micron-sized dinoflagellates looking like spaceships glide slowly over the surface of the sea; beautiful, flute-like tintinnids exchange genes temporarily with each other; and slender chaetognatha, or arrow worms, bristle with hairs and become cannibals as they gobble up their relatives.

At Moscow's gates, he suggested in a blog, visitors might don skis and glide down snowy battlefields and later across the Berezina river, scene of a disastrous battle, "surrounded by the frozen bodies of soldiers and horses".Napoleon is the best-known Frenchman after Charles de Gaulle, and is popular in Russia and China.

Turkey vultures are not the most adept of creatures at riding thermals; their role in life is to glide low across the ground, using their acute sense of smell to sniff out carrion.

The AASM, a French navy and air-force guidance system, has fins that can guide and glide bombs for 50km (31 miles) and hit a target within a metre of the bullseye.

Such funds follow a "glide path", taking less risk as the retirement date approaches.

Rosetta's stone A glide-path to knowledge Stress test ReprintsThis most recent stage of the journey, however, is not the most daring.

In other words, it is pursuing a gentle glide-path to the 4% target so as to minimise the output costs getting inflation down.

Rosetta's stone A glide-path to knowledge Stress test ReprintsIn Japan, where female scientists are a rare species, Dr Obokata's apparent breakthrough caused a sensation.