Sentence examples for racing underground from inspiring English sources

John Gill, 35, who owns a store called Drag Racing Underground in Astoria, Queens, said he was well aware of the growing popularity of the street races.

The racing organization he would later lead took root on those same streets when Los Angeles civic officials noted the relative racial harmony that prevailed in the street-racing underground.

Does Proposition 209 serve merely to push race underground?

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry that Built America's First Subway.

Subsumed by the Nascar juggernaut, Formula One barely registers on the radar of most American motorsport fans, lending wheel-to-open-wheel racing a dose of underground cachet.

The Old Penn Station My father and his brother used to run a liquor store across the street from Penn Station, and he talked about pickpockets who would dart from the avenue in and out of the nearby underground tunnels, racing from the cops, and I think of pickpockets whenever I am at the Amtrak or New Jersey Transit trains in today's Penn Station and getting on the 1, 2 or 3 trains.

So when Moritz and Cohen came to cast their next film, set in the underground street racing scene of Southern California, they turned to Walker.

They were introduced to one another by one of the key figures in the Cuban underground drag racing community.

For five hours starting just before midnight, 10 feet of the 90-foot depth of the lagoon raced through abandoned underground mines, smashing concrete seals the company thought strong enough to contain a spill, then shot out two mine entries and into the creeks.

When it is running, RHIC smashes together bunches of subatomic particles racing around its 2.4-mile underground tunnel in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light, then sifts through the resulting shower of debris for clues to the stuff of the early universe.

Local kids ransack empty houses, and small and wide-eyed, I join them, balancing across exposed beams and racing into wet black cellars; underground cavities where murder and sex and self-destruction seep from cracks of local stone and shifting brickwork where aborted babies found deathly peace instead of unforgiving life.