Sentence examples for strange motion from inspiring English sources

She then takes a gun from beneath her crazy-quilt furs and shoots it dead, putting an end to its misery and setting the plot in strange motion.

An explosive volcanic eruption in Chile has given scientists the first direct insight into the strange motion of rocky lava known as obsidian flow.

It's normal to fall on your side the first few times; it's a strange motion and you will get used to it.

In 1843 the British mathematician John Couch Adams began a serious study to see if he could predict the location of a more distant planet that would account for the strange motions of Uranus.

The water was rising and falling in strange rhythms, almost boiling in strange motions that I'd never seen before.

After two weeks, she began to dance, a strange circular motion no Sindhi recognised.

Almost every cell would have the game on the TV or radio and when goals went in the whole prison would erupt and shake with the noise of shouting and chanting, cell doors being banged and some inmates would throw burning balls of paper through the bars of their windows which, if enough people did it, lit up the sky like some kind of strange slow motion firework display.

Amitrano added that the thing he saw which, according to him, had muscular legs, a jutting tailbone, and a human-like shape flew in a "strange swooping motion, undulating up and down".

He was propped up against the pillows and making strange circular motions with one empty hand — circles and lines and dots and faces.

2. Japan Shudders A strange slow-motion earthquake was documented this year in the Nankai Trough, off the southeast coast of Japan, where the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate converge.

Once again, we walked toward the field, and when I turned again, the bear had closed the gap — it was 10 feet off, still making eye contact, still caught in that strange stop-motion pose.