sideslip
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It was almost as though, if he moved fast enough and squeezed in enough events, he might sideslip the 18th of June altogether and proceed to the next golden stage, untouched and untallied.
From Time ● Jun. 19, 2012
A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a parked Chinook from Singapore fires up its engines, two Australian army Hueys swoop in a few feet off the ground and sideslip into their designated parking slots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rudder wouldn’t let me sideslip, and even at low speed with flaps down and no power the blasted thing wanted to stick its nose up.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
We rocketed down the trough, then sideslipped a three-foot snowdrift on the edge of a muddy trail for the last two miles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
The unsettled earth sideslipped violently and became waterlogged as the sea penetrated it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like many another helicopterphile, Igor Sikorsky soon sideslipped into airplane design.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the Delaware River one afternoon last week a plane, sweeping for a landing, sideslipped, twirled awkwardly down to death.
From Time Magazine Archive
She tipped and sideslipped around the big tree and dropped the pigeon.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Later, as he began sideslipping in the powdery dust of the massif's slopes, Ski Buff Schmitt pretended that he was slaloming.
From Time Magazine Archive
The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Md., sideslipping the plane to blow the flames away from the cabin.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in.
From Time Magazine Archive
Koontz joined them, incredulously surveying the damage that Bernabe, by parking in the mud, getting stuck, rocking his vehicle, sideslipping and whatnot, had done.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
