How To Use Sliding In A Sentence
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There is a good deal of backsliding from time to time even by countries that profess to believe in freer trade.
Government and Private Enterprise
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At 20 fathoms the winze came out into the side of a large stope which was curved so that despite being on the footwall there was a grave danger of sliding over the edge.
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But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
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I stood at the sliding doors of Crosshouse Hospital, my arm around my grandmother.
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It analyses the influence of aircraft taxiing velocity and nose wheel steering angle on aircraft tire sliding.
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There is no ebb and flow in his metre more than on the shores of the Adriatic, but wave follows wave with equable gainings and recessions, the one sliding back in fluent music to be mingled with and carried forward by the next.
Among My Books Second Series
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Clements had got up and walked to the sliding glass doors that led out on to the terrazzo patio.
MURDER SONG
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His radical plans include a revolutionary, sliding lightweight roof, as well as new buildings to house a fashion and art college, multiplex cinema, luxury flats and even a centre for the town's youth.
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Side by side they lay among the morning-glories, with the yellow blossoms of the hau dropping upon them from overhead, watching the motes of men toil upward, till the thing happened, and three of them, slipping, rolling, sliding, dashed over a cliff-lip and fell sheer half a thousand feet.
Koolau the Leper
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Gold futures turned positive Wednesday, bucking the second day of sliding commodities, as it reassumed its safe-haven identity amid turmoil in Europe.
Gold Swoons, Then Rises on Risk Worries
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You might have noticed more and more people of all ages gliding down the streets on skateboards, sliding along walls and flicking and spinning their boards with various degrees of success.
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I concentrated on sliding into his life, his history, his sacred imperial flesh, flesh that a person could be killed on the spot for touching with their eyes, let alone his dirty ungentle hands.
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When a fish bites, the sliding sinker enables it to swim a short distance with the bait before feeling resistance.
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Features of the Fulton include reconstructed Portland stone features and detailing such as window surrounds, lintels and sills and sliding slash windows.
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Never before captured on film, we witness majestic sliding, an epic fight for toboggan territory and the unique mating ritual of this rare icon of the Canadian Prairie.
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I closed the sliding windows, with translucent paper for window panes, called shoji, and went to bed, but the lack of privacy was fearful, and I have not yet sufficient trust in my fellow-creatures to be comfortable without locks, walls, or doors!
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Eat the chicken, not the paper, he said, waving the half-eaten chicken and bun in her face before putting it down on the wrapper and then sliding it toward her.
Are We The Dining Dead?
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The bedrooms each had a fitted wardrobe with a large mahogany sliding or tambour door (those in the smaller bedrooms concealing a vanity unit), which gave the rooms a tidy appearance and enabled them to be more simply furnished.
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Benefits are paid on a sliding scale according to family income.
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The sail was clewed up, and in a few seconds I was clinging to the sliding gunter royal mast, and gathering in the canvas, while the captain was denouncing me for a lubber, for not accomplishing impossibilities.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Those ten minutes translated into distance as half a mile of wading through six inch deep troughs of muddy water, half a mile of sliding and tripping over loose rocks and embedded stones.
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Dove through the sliding doors and whammed them shut, crouching on all fours, heart beating wildly, peering out at him.
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Even grown dogs might hurtle him backward or sideways with the impact of their heavy bodies; and backward or sideways he would go, in the air or sliding on the ground, but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth.
The Outcast
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This caused the lead car to lift off the ground and go into a series of rolls, finally sliding on its hood to a stop.
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But all those losses are recouped tenfold by one detail - a pair of sliding rear doors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It operates much like a simple metal bookend where the book itself prevents the end from sliding or flipping.
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Horizontal sliding windows are like double-hung windows except that the sashes are located on the left and right edges rather than on the tops and bottoms.
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The burglar climbed through an open sliding-glass window after jemmying open a security screen in Mr Miller's home in Gillingham Court, Kirwan.
Townsville Bulletin Latest News
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The weighbridge itself was an Avery platform scales with a graduated sliding bar balance which indicated the weight on the platform.
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Friction gradually caused the sliding box to slow down and stop.
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South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames.
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‘Alright,’ Sam called, exiting the barn and sliding the two large doors shut and latching them.
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With a free afternoon ahead, I hiked a quarter mile from Chopta, sat down on a large rock, and watched the sun descend in the West toward snow-capped peaks, a huge red ball sliding behind dense gray clouds.
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Roberts said injuries in such an accident could range from burns to broken bones, bruises and sprained ankles from sliding down the emergency chutes.
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Glass is a heavy material and sliding the sashes up and down also puts a strain on the joints.
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The current wall separating the Great Hall and the Multi-Purpose Room is going to be removed and replaced with sliding doors to better connect the two rooms.
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She mumbled a muffled thanks through the mouthful of grips and positioned herself in front of the reflective piece of glass, carefully retying her hair then sliding each clip back into its rightful place.
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The Romans also made a mechanical version, with beads sliding in slots, called an abacus.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
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Sliding doors lead from here to the back garden patio.
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This mightie big stone sharpe topt, sliding downe the extream part from corner to corner, flat sided by the Diameter, was fower paces, at euery equall distant corner, whereof was the foote of a harpie of moulten mettall, their steales and clawes armed.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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Charges are made on a sliding scale, which means that the amount you must pay increases with the level of your income.
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Last among the rowers was my category: sliding-seat racing singles - skinny, tippy fiberglass shells nearly as long and light as those rowed in the Olympics.
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This was the first trial of our _sliding-gunter_ mainsail upon our singularly-constructed boat; and Bob and I were thrown into perfect raptures at the truly marvellous speed with which it propelled the craft along.
For Treasure Bound
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So, unaware of what they had missed, the voyagers arrived in Bermuda on the evening of April 4, 1873, sliding to anchor at Grassy Bay with the aid of a local pilot standing at the foretop and directing the four men at the wheel.
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Avoid constantly yanking up your denim tube dress by sliding it over your favorite top.
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There's the strong likelihood of my stitches sliding off my needles with every movement.
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Then the three writhed together in a swaying tangle, struggling, sliding, and falling into the arms of their mates on the crosstrees.
Chapter 21
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Therefore it is simple to understand his new-found enthusiasm for sliding over the crushed brick.
Times, Sunday Times
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_depth-gage_, _F_, adjusted by a screw, and a _slitting cutter_ with stop, a _sliding section_, _B_, with a vertically adjustable bottom, the _auxiliary center bottom_, _C_, to be placed when needed in front of the cutter as an extra support or stop.
Handwork in Wood
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He twirled the gold band, Helen's wedding ring, around on the tip of his little finger, before sliding it down to the knuckle.
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The American trainers are also helping the Indian players in utilising the gluteal muscles well and for those who have a problem they have devised a special regimen of weight-training, sliding wedger, Swiss ball and medicine ball.
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He would just drift through the corners and bring the rear end sliding round.
Times, Sunday Times
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This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
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This exhibition includes such rarely displayed pieces as "Ki Fudo," considered one of Japan's great statues of Fudo Myoo, the wrathful-looking "unshakable spirit," as well as partition paintings and fusuma (sliding-door) paintings from temple-complex buildings.
Time Off: Cultural Events Around Asia
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There's a rear retention system with easy-sliding grippers to customize fit.
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But, again, the argument is sliding between considerations of a statutory concept, citizenship, and considerations of a constitutional concept, alienage.
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The only ventilation comes from tiny sliding windows.
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Sliding behind the futuristic facia there is a tangible feeling of both solidity and comfort.
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The major reason for this was that the barrier joints were weak in torsion and when impacted by a vehicle, instead of sliding over, the barrier pitched allowing the vehicle to readily ride up the side.
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The new king's first task will be to prevent the desperately poor country of 23m from sliding into civil war.
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If people cannot be brought to an interest in one another greater than they feel to-day, to curiosities and criticisms far keener, and co-operations far subtler, than we have now; if class cannot be brought to measure itself against, and interchange experience and sympathy with class, and temperament with temperament then we shall never struggle very far beyond the confused discomforts and uneasiness of to-day, and the changes and complications of human life will remain as they are now, very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense avalanche that is sliding down a hill.
An Englishman Looks at the World
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Coloring the paper dolls was fun, too, the Crayola wax sliding richly onto the stiff matte tagboard.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME
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After years of backsliding, the New York City Ballet has recaptured the precision that its signature Balanchine repertory demands.
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We have a moment to relax before joining a group for our evening activity - ‘bum sliding’ down the pistes on tiny toboggans.
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Now, you see, _if in the moment of sliding you prepare the bow for the next string, the slide itself is lost in the crossing of the bow_.
Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
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We spent a couple of hours alternately gaining height by climbing up polished ramps then immediately losing it again by sliding down chutes the other side.
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Sometimes a big flat fish, called a flounder, would slip from one of the baskets, in which the men were putting them, and flop out on deck, almost sliding overboard.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home
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Friction gradually caused the sliding box to slow down and stop.
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The hall was empty, and he pulled his head back and closed the door, sliding the chain from the catch.
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Verify that the sliding glass door and all windows are locked and secure.
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To prevent your baby from sliding out of a stroller, look for leg openings that are restricted or closable.
A Guide to Buying Baby Equipment
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The lift itself was fine; I could hear it chugging up and down the shaft, and the door on the inside was certainly sliding open with the familiar crunch, but there was no way I could actually get in.
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The winner, in a 1998 Physical Review Letters article co-authored with his wife Dr Mirjana Golubovic, has identified this phase as the very first realization of a new state of matter: the sliding phase of weakly coupled two-dimensional smectics of DNA molecules sandwiched between lipid membranes, that themselves form a layered three-dimensional lamellar phase.
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The test apparatus to friction disc of wet clutch in automatic transmission can change some test parameters, such as sliding velocity, turning inertia, normal applied force and lubrication volume.
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A cotter pin acts a safety measure to prevent the arm from sliding off the stub.
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It brings us to another question, whether the neck region of a flagellar axoneme with a basal body could make some mechanical hindrance to microtubules sliding.
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Then I moved into my own space, but all it comprised was a recess off the main room separated by hardboard sliding doors.
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He watched as Adam put the neatly tied bundles on the conveyor belt sliding toward the maw of the incinerator.
DOLL'S EYES
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He comes sliding down the bellpull.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
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The aircraft hit the embankment short of the threshold, sliding up it, turning through 90-deg and coming to a stop.
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Their sliding-block puzzles often featured differently shaped pieces in rectangular trays.
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Leaves were sectioned on a sliding microtome and stained with safranin and Alcian Blue before being dehydrated through an alcohol series, taken through Histoclear and mounted onto microscope slides in Euparal.
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Sliding past the window are endless yards of lumber, fabricated metal and piping of all sizes.
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Sliding doors, which have one fixed panel and another that glides along top and bottom tracks, can be good choices for sunrooms as an entryway.
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When required, a massive sliding door of solid oak protects the privacy of the bedroom.
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The system uses a sliding frequency guiding filter to regulate the speed of the soliton waves.
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Even the sliding panels along the main storage wall are old doors that have been rehung.
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A snig of the red blade severed the thong; and the Indian's body sliding down from the withers of the horse, fell with a dull dead sound upon the turf.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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The human pageant has been filled with wrong turns, backsliding, and horrible crimes.
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The sliding motion of those sheets over each other gives pencil lead its properties.
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Based on the same architecture of the Focus C-Max, it has sliding rear doors.
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The factory greatly wanted a flat-bottom iron steamer, a stern-wheeler, with sliding keel, and furnaces fit for burning half-dried wood — a craft of fourteen tons, costing perhaps £14 per ton, would be ample in point of size, and would save not a little money to the trader.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Sliding without apparent effort into the baggy matrix of Apatow-ness, where every character — however half-assedly written — is allowed his or her lopsided human value, Brand played a sharp-tongued, oversexed cheeky-monkey rock star with the accent of a Blakean chimney sweep.
Brit Wit
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Bifold, or folding/sliding door systems, are very much the thing of the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The disparity between solar noon and mean noon widens and narrows as the seasons change, on a sliding scale.
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On the landside of the main room, where people pass from front door to bedroom corridor, are more sliding doors opening into a sunken court.
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Snapping the bracelets on and the chain around my neck, I came to sliding the leather belt around my slender waist only to put the two chains on it.
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With its faux rice-paper lamps and shoji sliding doors, the street could easily pass for a tidy neighborhood in Tokyo.
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I must warn you though that your wheels will leave marks on the surface you're sliding on.
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She turned around, her arm sliding across the surface, but to her dismay, she had accidentally batted a cracked clay pot from the closed covers.
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The animated effect looks a little like a drawer sliding into a chest.
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She leads us through a sliding bookcase and there is Mrs Claus again in her rocking chair doing some knitting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Less friction results in less effort involved in sliding the mouse across the surface.
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She was in lunging motion before Mark had recovered his wits, sliding like a snake southwestward towards Carnarvon and Abermenai, where doubtless her companions were now in harbour or moored in the roads outside the dunes.
His Disposition
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The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel.
Waverley
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I managed to get in a sliding tackle, but he scored anyway.
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The building envelope is usually formed from balconies and loggias, creating a semi-public layer enclosed by an external skin of folding or sliding shutters.
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Never before captured on film, we witness majestic sliding, an epic fight for toboggan territory and the unique mating ritual of this rare icon of the Canadian Prairie.
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He heard the sound of the deadbolt sliding into place before she moved toward the wall at the bottom of the steps.
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Gourmet has been sliding on its ability to captivate its audience ever since the January Cupcake Cover. 2 months after that issue, they actually posted a recipe on how to roast a chicken.
Goodbye, 'Gourmet' magazine | EW.com
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Yet statistics show voter turnout sliding down.
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The country was sliding into a state of virtual civil war.
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She got incredibly hyper and we managed to get into a huge food fight, sliding across my kitchen floor on chocolate syrup and whipped cream.
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Double doors lead to the dining room which in turn extends to a sunroom with sliding patio doors.
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Gaina: No, the whole sitting and lying down is pretty much the same, and for friction movment on the clit, that is generally reduced overall, I can't say that some postition or sliding motion suddenly springs it back to full or partial power!
Non-human
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The sound of a single sliding footstep squelching through the thick mud alerted him.
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Grading sequence, burthen structures, and the Bouma Sequence are developed in the turbidites sliding structures, which demonstrate obvious features of both the rhythmicity and the cyclicity.
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In 1954 a man was fined for sliding down the moving handrail.
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Later in the period, Whitney stretched the lead to two on a set play in which he took a pass from Cullen in open ice and deked Lehtonen before sliding the puck through his legs for his 16th goal.
USATODAY.com
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Two mall security guards loomed outside a wide glass sliding door.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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In this paper the casualty loess landfall are classified into two types according to their modes of development: tension-sliding loess landfall and collapsed earth cave dwelling .
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Its fourth wall comprises huge sliding doors that open onto a decked terrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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EAST African gorillas are sliding towards extinction because of hunters, conservationists have warned.
The Sun
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Yet statistics that show voter turnout slowly sliding down, down.
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This also means swiveling around the sliding carriage that holds the file, and duplicating the angles you used earlier.
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There was the sound of a step, the faint swoosh of a sliding door.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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It was picking up great clouds of dust as it moved in to touch down, the side passenger sliding door already opening before the undercarriage touched ground.
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With a gargantuan effort, they obey me, sliding a couple of centimetres in turn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The entrance is marked by the word ‘mediatheque’ printed in playful outsized letters on the sliding doors.
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The Brazilian bobsled team, the only sled from the tropics in the Olympic competition, crashed about two-thirds of the way down the track in its first run, sliding across the finish line with the sled on its side.
USATODAY.com - Hays headed for end of the bobsled line
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Suddenly, with a sickening slush and smell, the contents came free, sliding to the ground with a dull flop.
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Children and adults can enjoy sliding down the grassy slopes on cardboard boxes.
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On the lowest floor, a series of sliding wall panels and pocketed opaque glass doors allow for maximum flexibility.
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We quickly unload cases, leave them with our bags and personal belongings in the store room and lock the door with the sliding bolt and padlock.
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Seattle sits on a fault caused by a plate sliding under the continental United States.
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Benefits are paid on a sliding scale according to family income.
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Experienced doulas charge between $50 and $900 per birth, depending on experience, geographic area, demand, patient's needs, traveling time, and sliding scale.
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Cahill asked in his smooth voice, sliding into the passenger side seat alongside Gemmel.
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During such a test, the skier should avoid snowplowing and sliding on turns.
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The drawings, too, on the "fusuma" (solid thick paper sliding doors separating adjacent rooms or shutting off the closet) are simple and neat, as is all Japanese pictorial art.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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I hope that the Israelis will really understand the importance of holding these Palestinian elections, because failure to do these elections will mean (UNINTELLIGIBLE) sliding further and further toward chaos, lawlessness, militias, violence and counterviolence.
CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2004
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There it comes sliding down the luggage ramp: flattened, tattered, stained, wonderfully unappealing.
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The camera had captured a gloved hand sliding a perforated cylinder over the sosus transducer.
CORMORANT
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Curtain walls, sliding doors, transoms, and more can be finished in dark bronze or clear anodized and painted bronze or white.
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Then came the financial meltdown, which sent auto sales sliding further.
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A nubbin on the left side of the Glock magazine lip needs to be ground off for the sliding gate to fit over the lip.
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Her hands gripped his hair, her legs sliding in serpentine coils to lock behind his knees.
Busy Weekend - much accomplished...
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To get the upper surface sliding, a lateral force has to lift the teeth out of the grooves - that force is static friction.
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Rotation of the lever in a second direction translates rotational movement into sliding motion of the upper disk in a second direction to control the water flow rate.
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Limp and listless, there's no discernable flavour and it seems unretentive, any sauce just sliding off.
Times, Sunday Times
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We slogged across the pasture, truck tires slipping and sliding in the mud, and wound up walking the last hundred yards or so.
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In "Twin," his show on view now at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood, he happily employs a mash-up process that borrows heavily from graffiti's mark-making and dog-eared textures of urban decay, easily sliding back and forth between paint, collage, and de-collage to achieve his sense of balance.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: UK Street Artist HUSH, Blue Geishas And Graffiti Tags
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The tractors feature sliding gear transmission with eight forward and two reverse speeds.
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Many practitioners have a sliding scale of fees.
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In order to weaken the chattering phenomenon of sliding mode control, a method of fuzzy sliding mode control(FSMC)based on the slip ratio control of automobile ABS was presented.
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The problem of sliding mode control for uncertain systems subject to input constraint is considered. There exist uncertainties in state matrix and input matrix, respectively.
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Christiana liked the cool, smooth feel of strands of pearls sliding through her hands.
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There was blood flowing onto my leg, I could feel the tickle of the little droplets sliding.
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With a glowing, glass facade, humongous sliding doors that can open both ends and 80,000 seats -- 100,000, if necessary -- the Cowboys sure are aiming for the kind of showplace you'd expect from a club that bills itself as "America's Team.
The new stadium in Arlington
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The shark was about thirty yards from the boy, coming in with the same sliding motion.
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Pain shot through my arm, quickly dampened by drugs sliding into my bloodstream.
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You see him sliding into tackles and making blocks.
Times, Sunday Times
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A number of my uncles followed him into the trade, and I spent part of my youth sliding down poles in firehouses around the city.
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All the reinforced fencing, railroad ties, and flying buttresses can keep the uphill from sliding downhill for only so long.
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Both the rear seat and trunk get decent space, and sliding in and out of the car is considerably easier.
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You can't go shouldering them aside or doing sliding tackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, one point of religion for many people is to provide pressure that keeps them from backsliding into sinful ways.
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The word ` slide 'is of a punning nature, and in conjunction with the easy moveability of the microscope-barrel suggests a meaning akin to that of dreams of skating and sliding, which are usually sexual.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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What will work for sliding wood windows as well as those which open with a crank is floor wax (an extremely thin layer) but NOT because it acts as a lubricant.
Use A Candle To Keep Doors And Windows From Sticking | Lifehacker Australia
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He watched as Adam put the neatly tied bundles on the conveyor belt sliding toward the maw of the incinerator.
DOLL'S EYES
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Once well together, and the organs perfectly settled and adapted to each other, the _third_ act begins, namely, _the motion of the organs_ -- the sliding of the penis back and forth, partly in and out of the vagina, though this is not really the best way of describing just what should take place.
Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
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Now we have a better idea where we need to make improvements, as the car was not pleasant to drive in the second half of the race, sliding and slithering on what felt like melted rubber - it gave me no chance to push as I would have liked.
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First, according to the tracking error dynamics and kinematics described by unit quaternion error and angular velocity error, a sliding mode controller is derived based on Lyapunov theory.
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Other will argue that Greenspan prevented the US economy from sliding into recession in the late 90s following the dotcom collapse.
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I was impressed by the scene of a ringed planet sliding across the sky on its way to block out the sun.
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He eliminated the traditional valve on the spigot and instead used a sliding bit as the gate.
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A glass wall with sliding panels and a veranda overlook the adjacent lake.
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An adjustable pivot sliding in a slotted length of angle iron that's attached to the table of your jigsaw, makes a handy fixture for cutting true discs.
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Students with family incomes of less than £31, 230 are eligible to receive partial fee remission from the government on a sliding scale.
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His hands were on her smooth, arched back, sliding down the curve.
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Around one last bend in the water-gouged and gulleyed road, prepare for a sight the like of which you have never imagined: the tracks of the sliding rocks of Racetrack Playa, a sight unique on Earth.
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Sliding the door open, she winced at the bright light, squinting.
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The terrace is in the sunniest part of the site, so the whole south-west front was given the same treatment: standard sliding glass panels allow all the houses to look over the meadow.
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How do we stop from sliding down the slippery slope till we reach the oubliette where lurk the rack, the branding-iron, and the thumbscrew?
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Use broom handles to wedge sliding glass doors shut.
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I should feel no desire, so I was assured, to do another angel's "dags" by sliding down the heavenly banisters.
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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Even Faith opened her eyes wide to stare upward, for there was something sliding through one of the portholes above their heads, and dropping softly downwards -- a small package done up in crinkly pink paper, and tied neatly about with blue lutestring.
All Aboard A Story for Girls
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At the front, the master bedroom includes a wardrobe with overhead presses as well as sliding doors opening out to a verandah with decked floor.
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During play whenever he tried to run, which was not very often, he found his trousers sliding down to his knees, much to the amusement of the spectators.
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Sliding Ashley's board back into its proper place, he gave her a kiss on the cheek and said goodnight.
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The format … was that of a box or casket, the raw materials for which were provided by the specimen itself, made up in the form of a book – varying in size from folio to duodecimo – with the ‘front cover’ forming a sliding lid …
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One evening I attempted to open the sliding glass door leading onto my balcony.
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One look at the sword, a slender blade as smooth as ice, and she felt her mind sliding into soft clouds.
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The ship had seven short masts, and though the sails were furled, the ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them.
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Her hand was loosening his tie, his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh.
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Through the sparkling breadth of white, which seemed to glance my eyes away, and outside the humps of laden trees, bowing their backs like a woodman, I contrived to get along, half-sliding and half-walking, in places where a plain-shodden man must have sunk, and waited freezing till the thaw should come to him.
Lorna Doone
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You'll hear rather than see the unassuming clank of diesel locos sliding in and out of Newton Dale and the more exuberant klaxon and puff, puff, puff of the steam trains.
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But they may have to be lowered later to prevent the rest of the economy sliding back into recession.
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Test it by sliding a palette knife or spatula under the bottom and lifting it up to peek at the base.
Times, Sunday Times
