Sentence examples for in the splits from inspiring English sources

At ballet school I tore my hamstring off my pelvis when I was in the splits.

"I probably won't be able to stay there for too long in the splits, but long enough to stop the puck".

The tension, Zanotti said, was highlighted and exacerbated by conservative media and "led to the indirect walling off of conservatism, and the balkanization of conservatism" which is reflected in the splits in the race today.

They have come up with a gangly fellow with nicely defined fingers but a doltish face who can be swung around by puppeteers so that his poor knees knock together or lose sight of each other in the splits.

You go to dance school, you train your arse off for five years, you can do a triple pirouette on your head and land in the splits, and then you come out and someone's like: 'What are your measurements?'" It's a long way from Josephine Baker, the dancer who scandalised Paris in the 1920s with her nearly naked routines, and whom twigs admires.

It served the purpose of being snoozy family viewing, offering nice frocks and a chance for my Dad to look up from his newspaper as some woman from Cleethorpes was being launched 3ft into the air before landing in the splits, and remark: "This is the dance me and your mam do down the Rose and Crown every Friday".

But they succeeded only in widening the splits in the ruling party.

In contrast, the splits in are called plenary.

A lot is at stake in the split second the apple is sliced.

Talking of surprises, is that… Ricky Gervais doing a live set in the Split Sides Comedy Club?

It is in the split second between thought and non-thought that you kill.