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sideslip

[sahyd-slip] / ˈsaɪdˌslɪp /


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It was almost as though, if he moved fast enough and squeezed in enough events, he might sideslip the 18th of June altogether and proceed to the next golden stage, untouched and untallied.

From Time Jun. 19, 2012

It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate.

From Time Magazine Archive

JP Walker can sideslip an entire slopestyle course and still make the finals-he's way big in Japan.

From Time Magazine Archive

A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rudder wouldn’t let me sideslip, and even at low speed with flaps down and no power the blasted thing wanted to stick its nose up.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

We rocketed down the trough, then sideslipped a three-foot snowdrift on the edge of a muddy trail for the last two miles.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2011

As the 50th mile passed, the eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last time you sideslipped into a barrel while hanging ten: Last weekend in front of my house-backside, too.

From Time Magazine Archive

She tipped and sideslipped around the big tree and dropped the pigeon.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Md., sideslipping the plane to blow the flames away from the cabin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping.

From Time Magazine Archive

By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope.

From Time Magazine Archive

Koontz joined them, incredulously surveying the damage that Bernabe, by parking in the mud, getting stuck, rocking his vehicle, sideslipping and whatnot, had done.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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