Sentence examples for its kick from inspiring English sources

It's just too bad that while "The Invention of Solitude" is one of Auster's best books, "Winter Journal" doesn't live up to its precedent — it lacks its kick.

The kitchen cooks the fruit with whole-grain mustard and balsamic vinegar, but it gets its kick from a last-minute application of mustard oil.

The company said it gets its kick by adding more copper wiring to the little one-inch voice coil and using a heavy duty rare-earth magnet to move the speaker.

Just the weird Mesoamerican-style creation myth that is the prologue, perfectly synchronised with my own primitive brainwaves to lull me into the story as it delivered its kick.

Bull riding resembles such sports as bungee jumping and skydiving in that adrenaline is its kick; and it is like surfing and mountain climbing in the way it pits a human being against a force of nature.

"Since it was as big as I was, its kick when I let it off lifted me 20 yards backwards into a ditch," he recalled.

Not that the game doesn't have its kicks — it does.

Despairing of rescue, it gets its kicks by placing thumbtacks on the deck chairs of the Titanic.

While it's certainly pretty cool, it could definitely work on its kicking technique.

It also aims to put pressure on the opposition through its kicking game rather than counterattacking with ball in hand.

Women, "with babies to protect", have always had to be "aggressive and violent"; if a patriarchy had ever existed, surely it would have been "loving and naturally nurturing?" The Power puts its kick-ass attitude and thrill-a-minute vim in the service of a blunt but valuable reminder that gender is nothing but what we make it.