Sentence examples for slammed about from inspiring English sources

The rear door of a taxi is slammed about 120 times a day, said Mr. Sherman.

This car does get the same, four-wheel independent suspension design as the stock Impreza, but the WRX STi is slammed about a half-inch closer to the pavement, and gets meatier aluminum front lower L-arms and inverted struts at all four wheels, which are said to resist bending forces under hard cornering more ably than struts set in their usual, upright position.

Our guide, comfortable on the terrain and not wearing a seatbelt to prevent his body from slamming about, seemed at ease yet anxious to see his land again.

At the recent Friday poetry slam, about 120 people crowded around tables and lined the bar: college-age, beer-drinking, well-behaved Latinos, blacks, whites and Asians.

Laudner declined to comment for this article, though at a press conference earlier this week he slammed reporting about his organization.

Many analysts and bankers had pointed to Facebook's troubled May 18 debut as a potentially chilling event for technology offerings, and indeed the market for I.P.O.'s slammed shut for about a month afterward.

When a 10-kilometer-wide object slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it created an ecological catastrophe.

Scientists think that a comet or asteroid slammed into Mars about 2.5 million years ago, flinging the rock into space.

Researchers have uncovered a pond-sized crater in the woods of central Alberta, Canada, carved out by a meteor that slammed into Earth about 1100 years ago.

Planetary scientists generally agree that the moon formed from debris thrown into space when a huge celestial object slammed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.

Getting slammed by students about one's teaching can be painful for professors, but now there's an even greater danger to faculty egos: uncensored Web forums where students offer unrestrained praise--or denunciations--of their classes.