skidding
Example Sentences
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The agency’s rules touch virtually every facet of transportation safety, including regulations that keep airplanes in the sky, prevent gas pipelines from exploding and stop freight trains carrying toxic chemicals from skidding off the rails.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026
Brent crude futures moved 1.3% higher to $59.68 a barrel, after skidding Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
As UBS analyst Robin Farley has pointed out, in her Neutral-rating notes, the KKR deal will only prove wise if the motorcycle maker can turn around its skidding sales.
From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025
Ever since, he’s been skidding down the alphabet, saving even more daughters, wives, girlfriends, sons, grandsons and other people’s families, as well as a train, a mine, a battleship, an airplane and a pub.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
The lifters found metal again, and thirty seconds later she came to a skidding halt at the end of the line.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
