Sentence examples for lay rubber from inspiring English sources
verb
To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire.
At one point, Eric Brill flew from New York to Los Angeles to help sand and prime steel, build closets and lay rubber floors in a bathroom and hallway.
If you're looking to lay rubber in this day and age (Top Gear hosts excepted), you're more of a fossil than the fuel you're burning.
Why have a sports car if you can't lay rubber, the French wonder.
It won't exactly lay rubber, but it accelerates efficiently and comes up to freeway speed without complaining.
The bumps were a '60s response to Rusty Hamer, who played Danny Thomas' son on the TV show "Make Room for Daddy," and who as a teen-ager liked to lay rubber in his souped-up car.
I don't know if it was the combination of the newness of having a license, or wanting to show off for a girl, or just because I was a knucklehead, but I wanted to see if the family's Nash-Rambler station wagon, with a push button gear shift (the latest thing) could lay rubber in the parking lot of the super market.
The racing line depends also on the evolution of the track during a race, as the cars lay down rubber on a particular racing line, increasing the grip in that area.
One of the few street circuits in the series, it is closest to the one in Montreal, because it uses public roads in a temporary setup and provides a large challenge to the drivers as the grip level increases over the weekend as the cars lay down rubber and dust it off.
This kind of adolescent revving of the engines ("Hoo-boy, let's lay some rubber!") can get tiresome and Eggers knows it can, as he acknowledges upfront in AHBWOSG, in one of his several strategies for deflecting or second-guessing criticism of his book: "There is no overwhelming need to read the preface.
(2) Trice up the pre-packed screen and put it in the pressure vessel, lay a rubber cushion as seal ring on the top of the vessel, then padlock the pressure vessel cap.
"We pushed a lot of dirt," Ashe said.In the bulldozers' path lay rare rubber boa snakes, scores of tiny endangered plants and the historic remains of Southern California's largest gold mining site and ancient Native American villages.
