Sentence examples for leaves gliding from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, the researchers suggest, gliding in mammals evolved for survival reasons: since they feed on canopy leaves, gliding may have protected them if they fell from the branches.

Practice turning right and left while gliding.

They reach a peak in "The Waltz of the Flowers" (one of the two most substantial numbers in Act II of the complete ballet), which here becomes a view of the seasons, with leaves dropping and gliding in autumn, milkweed pods releasing seeds, frost fairies skating as they turn a pond's surface to ice, and snowflake fairies changing a landscape.

"Sad to leave," said Dan, gliding fast downwind.

(A ) (Left) Kymograph of a gliding IFT20-GFP cell.

For a moment I doubted my tame, UK-based hill training was sufficient to tackle Romanian mountains, but before I had chance to catch my breath, we were hurtling downhill at a frantic pace, with the experienced mountain runners leaving me for dust, effortlessly gliding down the valley.

But just as we were about to leave, we spotted jets overhead, gliding into position for a bombardment.

In addition, increased MIC2 secretion correlated with increased parasite motility, in terms of number and length of trails left by the parasite while gliding on a substrate.

I looked down on birds gliding above trees whose leaves were beginning to die gracefully.

After I left the showroom, I imagined myself gliding down the cobbled street outside in a new Tesla, generating zero emissions but plenty of curiosity from pedestrians and other drivers, and probably no small measure of envy.

Stewart, M. J. & Vanderberg, J. P. Malaria sporozoites leave behind trails of circumsporozoite protein during gliding motility.