Sentence examples for skidded down from inspiring English sources

A motorcyclist skidded down, then a skier, then the legendary taxi.

Then came a freak accident: she was running along the trails when a joyrider, going too fast, skidded down near her, sending a sharp stone flying into a knee.

Obviously the most piss-yourself exciting thing beyond Actual Christmas Day for me as a child was a snow day, of tweaking those curtains on a cold winter morning and looking out at a world, white and transformed, docile and peaceful, a crisp layer of snow ready to be stomped on, thrown, sculpted and skidded down, a pure day of frolicking without the concerns of work or school.

At that point, she said, the tail snapped off and the rest of the plane skidded down the runway.

I have no memory of the crash, but apparently my car veered off the road and skidded down a slope, smashing into a tree.

It skidded down a dusty slope of lava and sniffed the air just where, minutes earlier, we had been lying naked in the water.

Then, with their blades skidding down at a crazy angle, they rush past – whooosh!

Over the short years since, the price has twice been more than double the so-called worst case, and then twice also come skidding down by two-thirds.

One of the particularly absurd arguments against allowing gays to marry is that such a lapse would send us skidding down that dreadful slope to legalization of incest, polygamy, bestiality and so forth.

Snow is for people who don't mind when it trickles down their backs or seeps through their shoes -- the kind of people who yell "Whee!" and "Do it again!" when they're traveling in a car skidding down an icy hill.

Speaking to the economic affairs committee of the House of Lords, he said the impact of the current uncertainty was already being felt in the fall in the number of commercial property transactions, while jittery markets had sent the pound skidding down 10% since the beginning of the year.