Sentence examples for picked up velocity from inspiring English sources
Almost immediately, his fastball picked up velocity and some nasty sinking movement.
But the outflow has picked up velocity since last week's election, when the elevation of anti-austerity leftist parties in Parliament raised the specter in international financial markets of a Greek default.
As for Mr. Fforde's narration, it picks up velocity and interest as the book progresses.
"They pick up velocity and can do serious damage.
Meanwhile, those gale force winds of history are only picking up velocity.
"He still hasn't picked up that velocity that I think he has a chance of regaining," the coach said, "but he's been getting himself into a better position to throw the ball, a more powerful position.
As it was flung around the Earth in what is known as a slingshot manoeuvre (designed to speed it on its way to the outer solar system), Galileo picked up more velocity than expected.
It was striking because the Republicans went so emphatically far, in terms of stagecraft and storytelling, to profess inclusiveness, and because we gays have been in the news rather a lot over the last year or so, as the march toward marriage equality picked up considerable velocity.
