jackknife
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The keys for these models are jackknife fobs, wherein the metal blade of the key can fold in and out of the plastic fob.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
The officer had gotten out of a vehicle after seeing a semi-trailer jackknife on the road and the patrol car was struck by a passenger car.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
But somehow, it’s entirely too easy to oversteer and jackknife, or to understeer and do an embarrassingly crooked parking job.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
Digging with a garden shovel and jackknife, Kathy Wankel unearthed a complete T rex arm.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019
He took a jackknife out of his pocket and dug a little scoop of dirt out of one of the tracks.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
The catalog explains how Mr. Donati, a native of Milan, traveled in the American Southwest and Hudson Bay in the 1930s and traded European pheasant feathers, beads and jackknives for Indian artwork.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2010
Boys rolled marbles and obtained jackknives as they became older.
From Time Magazine Archive
After that, it was no trouble to win the National A.A.U. high & low-board championships with comparatively easy jackknives and gainers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Administration supporters downtown and on Capitol Hill already had their jackknives out, were busily whittling away at the rotten wood of the Neutrality Act.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted to sit with them on curbstones and compare the sharpness of jackknives, the distance and arcs of spitting.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
It jackknifes its sleek body and leaps out of my hand, scurrying off into the landscaping.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2019
“The problem is when a tractor-trailer jackknifes, it’s not like a Honda Accord, — it takes out the entire roadway,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
You may not be able to perform as many jackknifes, and that's fine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
Here, the cities of Florence and Muscle Shoals flank opposite sides of the Tennessee River just before it jackknifes back up into the state from whence it came.
From Southern Living ● Dec. 25, 2012
Legg not only jackknifes over eleven barrels but also leaps through a revolving, flaming ring.
From Time Magazine Archive
The episode later reveals that a jackknifed big rig unleashed 22 million killer bees into L.A. when it crashed on the 4th Street Bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
Parts of Interstate 80 between Des Moines and Iowa City were repeatedly snagged overnight by jackknifed tractor-trailers and multiple-car pileups, the Department of Transportation reported.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Four lorries have jackknifed in an eight-vehicle crash, causing major delays on a main road through Essex.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023
Andreas Alikaniotis, a 20-year-old survivor, described how he and fellow students escaped from a jackknifed train car as the fire approached, smashing windows and throwing luggage outside to use as a makeshift landing pad.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The Goober sat on the curbstone, his legs jackknifed, his feet in the gutter.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2023
By the end of the piece, his upper body was jackknifing toward the keys at flourishes, with his left foot stomping.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
Within moments, police said more tractor trailers were jackknifing behind it.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022
A look at Newser's home page on Monday morning compels with all the sick attraction exerted by a semi jackknifing across the interstate, setting in motion a 20-car pileup.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2010
I wedged my body down through the nearly solid sea of coils, forcing my legs deep into the cockpit and jackknifing my knees so that my upper body swung downward and inward.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
