Sentence examples for slipped a disc from inspiring English sources

In 2013 he slipped a disc after a spirited session on a sit-up machine.

"Maybe you've slipped a disc or pinched a nerve, in which case you've got to solve that underlying problem.

"She slipped a disc coming down a flight of stairs, and the vet wants her to wear this for three month," he said.

ANOTHER scoop for Bild, Germany's biggest-selling daily: last weekend Hans Eichel, the country's finance minister, apparently slipped a disc doing the housework.

Or OSHA might post that at a hospital with 300 employees, three workers contracted hepatitis B and two slipped a disc while lifting patients.

Having hoped to win a medal at the Games, Warner's prospects were dashed by the reclassification of two athletes, an irksome issue in the disabled sporting world – before fate dealt another cruel blow and she slipped a disc, all but ruling out any hope of a podium finish.

He was eating a chapati when flour got up his nose and made him sneeze and slip a disc in his back.

"We don't have any titles at the new Columbia," Rubin explains, as Kusatsu, the first person Rubin hired, slips a disc out of its sleeve.

It was the former car mechanic from rural Pennsylvania, Joseph Darby, who blew the whistle after senior brass had tried to hush the whole thing up by slipping a disc under an investigator's door.

Here was a fairly standard tale of adultery tarted up as sophisticated comedy, in which our hero slips a disc by way of sexual foreplay and is thereafter delivered to us as a kind of neoclassical, disempowered lover, cute as a puppy, impotent as the blinded Mr Rochester and yet a real live heterosexual dude for a feminist generation.

There are other odd gotchas: According to the manual, slipping a disc into a standard DVD drive (which can normally play such a thing) might destroy the data on it.