What is "path of least resistance"

Usage examples of "path of least resistance".

She slammed Kurgan onto his back, saw his eyes flutter, knew that he was losing consciousness, and she rolled over him, down the Hagoshrin's fleshy embankment, following the path of least resistance the banestone had taken.

Then they'll swarm towards the path of least resistance and greatest food producing potential.

Following the path of least resistance here may not lead us through the Church, but via the Core.

Then there were also a number of old lava channels that could easily become rivers, as the lava, like the water, had tended to follow the path of least resistance downhill.

Even as he stood there, arms locked round the mast as the second wave fought to carry him away, he remembered how often in the high hills at home he had stood at the foot of a precipice as an onrushing wind, seeking the path of least resistance, had curved and lifted up the sheer face, leaving him standing in a pocket of relative immunity.

It was evident that in the process widely scattered body parts had sometimes taken the path of least resistance.

While the female tech went on to offer additional statistics, Han-with his back to a peripheral device he hoped would prove the path of least resistance-slotted the disk, which Baffle promised would literally disappear once it had worked its sorcery.

But it was either break through her armor, or sit back and take the path of least resistance and do nothing.

But they kept returning to the path of least resistance, and now and then they could see that hills had been cut into to make a place for the road to go, and the occasional valley had been partly filled in with stone which had not yet worn down to nothing.

They took, as she expected they would, the path of least resistance.

Mankind traveled the path of least resistance and best food supply, the boundary between land and sea.