Sentence examples for like a chute from inspiring English sources

Rather than climb down, we dropped into the saddle, part of the mountain carved out like a chute, and slid down a glacier for two miles.

Similarly, the second item has a translated-from-French feeling ("like a Chutes and Ladders board waiting to be played upon").

Cars rattled along the highway above, like marbles in a chute.

From there to our house was like falling down a chute: nothing left to do but prepare for landing.

If he's done everything right, the calcified particles are flung through the semicircular canal like marbles out a chute.

I opened a backstage door at Stage AE and found 30 or so fans crammed into a brightly lighted hallway like cattle in a chute — they had been selected to dance onstage that night.

A sudden thunderclap shook the whole building and the sound echoed away like coal sliding down a chute.

"I set myself, I nod that I'm ready and then I wait like a horse in a chute.

In summer a jungle of honeysuckle, wild grape and daylilies clogs any gaps between the huge trees that line the roads like the walls of a chute.

So I cut a deal: I told them I would only go if I could get for our Presidential Library a chute like the one I used back in 1944.

The fish ladder is a strange contraption, more like a coal chute with a 180-degree twist than a ladder.