Sentence examples for keep from tipping from inspiring English sources

Cueto took to the changes and exaggerated them, partly to shield his hand position from the hitters and keep from tipping his pitches.

He also tried diet after diet in a mostly unsuccessful effort to keep from tipping the scale at more than 300 pounds.

The overall effect displays Sherman's open delight taken in fusing the signage of so-called high and low art--here with the valences of gentility and vulgarity--in one composition that keeps from tipping too far in favor of one proclivity or the other.

Wheeler said he was trying to keep himself from tipping his pitches.

Two big gyroscopes under the floor are designed to keep it from tipping over, even when a car hits it from the side.

Each raft acts partly as a "toe" for the tower above it, to keep it from tipping over, in the same way that your own toes hold you when you lean forward.

The cargo hold is well-finished — there are movable tie-down loops set in tracks on the carpeted floor, shallow bins underneath and a cover that can be propped up to help keep items from tipping over — but it is small.

She lay flat to keep it from tipping, her feet in the water, her head raised.

It took some 65 semitrailers to haul the crane in pieces to the site and nearly 2 million pounds of counterweight to keep it from tipping.

Second, depending on Twitter's internal regulations regarding independent sales on secondary markets, the offering to BlackRock could keep employees from tipping Twitter over the 500 shareholder limit that triggers the need to file for an initial public offering.

As the company scrambled to get some coherent strategy in place to keep users from tipping into a stampede away from the service, Twitter's API was gated, the Web UI was dynamically stripped of pagination, @replies, and sometimes even the array of follow icons as event swarms stressed the servers.