Sentence examples for spikes off from inspiring English sources

"After I took my spikes off, put my shoes on, and started to walk to the warm-up track, it had already hit me," Gay said Sunday.

His idea was to take the spikes off of the player's heels.

Another way to put it would be to say that our communal lie detector was spiking off the charts.

Some of its 180 spikes fell off and others came loose.

And, with the first of a succession of spikes falling off days after it was unveiled in 2005, taxpayers ended up spending £300,000 on testing and maintaining it.

Great Britain's 4x400m men finished fourth in their final with a time of 3 00.02, well outside the top three, although Nigel Levine had to run the entire third leg without a shoe after one of his spikes came off during the melee of a baton change.

My mum taught him how to twist them at the stem gently, so as not to pull on the whole plant, and how to embrace the sharp ends of the prickles on his soft palms: a quick polish and the spikes come off, leaving it safe for nibbling with abandon.

We observed that the peak-to-peak amplitude of the temporal filter and the neuronal sensitivity, which were obtained from either neuronal ON spikes or OFF spikes, could exhibit significant changes when the high-order stimulus statistics were changed.

But at 23-23, Goran Vujevic's spike ricocheted off the American block and fell to the floor.

Some merchants use the data they collect from these online transactions to balance seasonal spikes, promote off-season special offers by e-mail message or remind customers that it is time to clean the gutters.

Peel the spike ring off, being careful not to damage it.