Sentence examples for touch the pavement from inspiring English sources

That novel, "Barbary Shore," which received nearly unanimously hostile reviews, is a work of majestically involuted paranoia, playing like early Dostoyevsky among Brooklyn Communists; it's a sort of high-voltage response to the day's McCarthyite persecutions, but it hardly seems to touch the pavement where it's set.

After driving home, I stepped out of the car and before the other foot could touch the pavement I fell asleep.

Let your front tucks touch the pavement slightly before your back trucks.

There is something featureless about it: The sea doesn't move, and people barely touch the pavements during the heat of the day.

There is something featureless about it: the sea doesn't move, people barely touch the pavements during the heat of the day.

Once his feet touched the pavement, a mob scene ensued.

The vehicle's outrigger -- a safety device used in tests to prevent an actual rollover -- also touched the pavement.

MotoGP creates a powerful sense of speed and danger as you race around the track, taking turns by leaning into the road until your foot almost touches the pavement.

In a community where men and boys wear long, double-breasted coats with matching felt hats, where women and girls wear pleated skirts and pearl earrings, not a sneaker can be found touching the pavement.

"So actually, just touching the pavement and feeling exactly what's needed.

The other night I was leaving the subway station focusing too much on my iPhone and not enough on the stairs in front of me, and I found myself face down on the subway floor, with my lips touching the pavement and my knees smooching the ground.