Land-shark

"Land-shark" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Staffer Mark Hoyer (riding a Suzuki Hayabusa for unfair, incoherent contrast) and I would land-shark our way through the mountain roads near Mount Palomar for a full day of riding.

Brodeur and Vega land-sharked their way through the crowds, eventually finding their way to the front door.

There's a few in the basement, including the Saturn V that land sharked last time I launched it.

The honorable member took up the land question because it was popular, but at one time he land-sharked the country right and left.

With roll-top desks, back to back, they land-sharked their way to a fortune.

In the District of Victoria, for instance, if a man wished to obtain possession of a section near his own he could not get it there; and if he came to Adelaide he was land-sharked.

Their cost is trifling in the East, and dear at interior stations in the West, where a soldier is "land-sharked" by traders at the rate of from $10 to $20 per month, and more if he be an opulent individual.

They determined to drive the land-sharks out, let the consequences be what they might.

The 'supreme Legislature' might provide a remedy by dispossessing settlers by retrospective legislation, but 'once the whole country shall have been possessed by land-sharks, by those private purchasers from the natives', there would be huge practical difficulties in effecting any such dispossession.

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