Sentence examples for skidded around from inspiring English sources

Pullman's teenage thriller, The White Mercedes, skidded around present-day Oxford.

The furniture flexed and skidded around the room, and the walls folded and unfolded.

In headscarves, retro-chic aprons and all manner of eyewear, they skidded around the crowded basement, jockeying for electrical outlets and space.

Earlier, much earlier, the fans got to see a game in drier and warmer weather, but the players skidded around as if playing on ice.

The 1956 final was a memorable game in which the Giants wore white sneakers on Yankee Stadium's frozen turf while the Chicago Bears skidded around on cleats.

I skidded around on the color wheel — too dark, too light, too purple, too black — settling on a shade that made me think of a dark blue Mexican sky.

It makes me nervous watching them running and leaping around like that and flapping their arms and skidding around".

And as a keen off-road motorcycle rider, I also wanted to have a go at frozen lake riding, where you skid around on the ice, James Bond-style.

Sitting after class recently at one of the students' desks, whose metal legs she has outfitted with feet made from sliced-open tennis balls to keep them from skidding around, Ms. Edson said that until two years ago she taught kindergarten.

A group of primary-school-age boys gathered at the razor-wired entrance take it in turns to skid around on a bike, nipped at the ankles by a pack of small dogs.

I failed the arithmetic test for a Saturday job at Littlewoods in Edinburgh, so I ended up in a back room, slicing bacon and skidding around in pork fat.