Scary stop

Usage examples of skid.

One time he ducked the attack, skidding to his knees but coming right back up agilely to run on.

Just then, the two mud-splattered and begrimed coaches careened into the lane and skidded to a stop before the manor.

He had braced himself there, evidently to belay Cal against a fall that would send him skidding down the rock slope below.

The halfling, with the luck endemic to her race, had skidded to a stop in a particularly soft, boggy area.

He also kept his command well caulked, and saw the chocks and skids secure when his boat was hoisted to the deck.

My body jerked and quivered with each blow, skidding on the leaf-strewn ground, and I clung to the sense of the ground below me, trying so hard to sink down, be swallowed by the earth.

The real estate office was a doublewide trailer across the street from a converted house that served as the Corban library, and Doris swung into the microscopic parking lot, braking to a halt with the skid of fat tires on gravel.

Calumet Street enters a slum where dregs settle to a small Skid Row, no less pitiable than the massive human swamps in New York, London, Moscow, Chicago, Calcutta.

We skidded across the floor, then raced down the escalator until we emerged onto the sidewalk.

Both Gio and I skidded to a stop when we saw him, but Rambo was already off and running again.

Once past, the cars skidded, decelerating, and cut sharply left one block ahead, taking the exact route Glick had intended to take.

As he pulled Gorp to a skidding stop and turned the horse about, he saw the Bright Knight lying motionless on the grass.

His feet slid out from under, skidding on hailstones, and he fell headlong into the pile.

After only a few moments the pickup had come racing wildly back over the hill and out of the hayfield, skidding to a stop on the gravel farmyard.

Prague ordered the pilot, who expertly sideslipped his heliTurcotte watched as the large disk that Prague had called copter so that they were now flying sideways, with the nose Bouncer Three made an abrupt jump move to the right, of the aircraft--and the chain gun hung off the skid- changed directions just short of 180 degrees in a split sec- pointed toward the pickup.