Sentence examples for like a skid from inspiring English sources
To John Dinkel, it looked a lot like a skid pad.
It was like a skid mark, like you throw a rock on the water and skid off it.
Its legal history in recent years reads like a skid row crack dealer's rap sheet... Cops described the Ford as the worst drug-trafficking spot in central Los Angeles.
Something else that apparently could only have happened in a city like Hull is the creation of a Snakebite with a shot of Jäger in it, the brown liquid staining the foam like a skid mark on some already old and soiled underwear.
The throttle response is jumpy, and the exhaust belches like a skid-row rummy.
One of the prerequisites is a strong fault surface — a plate boundary or rock fracture with a high coefficient of friction, like a skid-resistant pad under an area rug.
In the proposed pole test, the collision occurs at a 75-degree angle instead, more like a skidding side impact, and the difference could have confused the Explorer's sensors.
City moved like Olympic speed skaters while we were falling around like clowns on a skid patch".
In a season this good, the Devils were due for a skid like this one.
"We were all outside having a good time," said an aunt of the boy, Una Alphonso, 41. "I heard a skid like tires, then I heard a bang.
On Tuesday, investigators' sonar readings showed something new: a cone-shaped object at the end of what looked like a long skid mark, roughly in line with 52nd Street.
