Sentence examples for put on skids from inspiring English sources

Fourteen houses on Shishmaref's north side had to be put on skids and dragged down to the opposite end of the island after a major storm in October 1997.

Mrs. Bagnoli drives towards them & then puts on the emergency break & the truck skids.

Complicating matters, on a swept-wing jet, a skid will put one wing perpendicular to the oncoming air and produce more lift, while the other wing trails in the wind and produces less lift.

But the skidding economy got in the way and the project was put on hold.

"I woke up in the middle of the night thinking, 'There has to be something we can do to put the skids on this because this is wrong,' " said Ms. Faber, 43, of Larchmont.

It was a year ago that captain Steven Gerrard's fateful slip against Chelsea put the skids on what was looking like a thrilling, and completely unexpected, Premier League title triumph.

The occasional spin of Kevin O'Brien (3-24) eventually put the skids on their charge, which originally looked as though it would be in pursuit of a higher score when Ireland rattled off 40 runs in the first four overs.

Tesla Motors may put the skids on Nevada's fledgling film program.

Still less often are they so well reported:A sadness come over everybody's face like 'What are we going to do now?'I put the machinery on skids and helped skid it out the back door.

It's the one that put the skids to rampant poverty among the elderly.

It put the skids under Spain for the first time in four tournaments.