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Skid
"Skid" in a Sentence (23 examples)
To some extent, you can control the car in a skid.
My car went into a skid on the bend.
There were skid marks in the parking lot.
The brakes locked, and the car began to skid.
The car went into a skid on the ice.
Some of them went into a skid.
The victory spared the Cavaliers from setting the longest skid in North American professional sports history.
The car's tires screeched, leaving behind black skid marks.
The car's tires left black skid marks on the road.
Tom slammed on the brakes and the car began to skid.
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Near-synonyms: wheelslide, sideslip
Just before hitting the guardrail the driver was able to regain control and pull out of the skid.
In the hours before daylight he sharpened the skids and tightened the lashings to prepare for the long dogsled journey.
Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings.
He unloaded six skids of boxes from the truck.
His head was away up in the shadows of lifeboats that stood on skids above the deck.
If the boat had been further out, we could not get to work at the wheel without beaching her further up; or either dry docking her or putting her on skids.
The team snapped a 3-game skid with a win over their biggest rival.
They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
Don't use excessive rudder when turning, especially at low airspeed, as this causes your plane to skid through the turn, which can cause you to very rapidly enter a spin if the inner wing stalls.
Because of the jammed ailerons, the pilot had to use careful rudder inputs to skid his plane in order to turn it so he could get lined up with the runway.
The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in
[…] it is something that differentiates an elite hacker from skids (script kiddies).
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