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  • We were almost at a forty five degree angle to the road, side-slipping our way up behind an old diesel spewing Russian moto grader, that chugged along leveling piles of sand and dirt.

    CUBA: FIVE DAYS ON THE CHEAP, FREE CELL, FREE GUARD DOG, FREE GUARD 2010

  • JEAN JENNINGS, AUTOMOBILE MAGAZINE: It senses when the wheels start side-slipping.

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2006 2006

  • A hawk caught the updraft over the canyon, side-slipping on thin air.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • He never seemed to realize that his side-slipping to the left and his subsequent attack to the northward at the climax of the fighting on May 3 exhibited tactics of the first order.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He never seemed to realize that his side-slipping to the left and his subsequent attack to the northward at the climax of the fighting on May 3 exhibited tactics of the first order.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He eluded her only by side-slipping violently, and be lost all the advantage of the speed his dive had given him in that panicked maneuver.

    Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • As she touched the controls, she felt the slight instability of the lifting cushion of air under her, then a side-slipping from the force of the wind.

    Eve's Rib Chandler, Bryn 1989

  • She pulled herself up again and for the next ten minutes she managed to ski slowly and carefully with a great deal of side-slipping.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • She pulled herself up again and for the next ten minutes she managed to ski slowly and carefully with a great deal of side-slipping.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • She pulled herself up again and for the next ten minutes she managed to ski slowly and carefully with a great deal of side-slipping.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

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