Sentence examples for propelling themselves from inspiring English sources

High-speed acrobats propelling themselves off springy runways turn a dazzling array of flips, twists and somersaults.

But mostly they keep moving: jumping, bouncing, leaping, crouching, turning upside down, sliding and propelling themselves along the floor.

YOU used to see them in slums everywhere: beggars with paralysed limbs, perhaps crawling, perhaps propelling themselves on hand-pedalled tricycles.

Jews, too, were killers, including those who got their revenge on Poland by propelling themselves to power with the rise of Communism.

Alcids (family Alcidae) are the only charadriiforms adapted for swimming underwater, which they do by propelling themselves with half-open wings.

Very few animals are incapable of propelling themselves through the water (even if very poorly) and dinosaurs presumably did so as well.

Stephen Gallacher, Victor Dubuisson, Jamie Donaldson, Thomas Bjorn and Henrik Stenson have propelled themselves into European thoughts.

Cyclists use nearly all their energy to propel themselves forward.

The musicians propelled themselves forward on long lines.

Such lizards propel themselves entirely by lateral undulations emanating from highly complicated ventral abdominal muscles.

They propel themselves with two half-hockey sticks in a fashion similar to cross-country skiers.