Skidding is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Skidding meaning
present participle and gerund of skid
Using Skidding
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of skid
- In the example corpus, skidding often appears in combinations such as: skidding on, the skidding, and skidding.
Context around Skidding
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skidding
- In this selection, "skidding" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, began, chevrolet, miss, off, tire and shot stand out and add context to how "skidding" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a low skidding shot past and and began skidding and tumbling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skidding" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skidding
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sabalenka is foxed by a couple of skidding efforts. (9 words)
The force of skidding off the runway split the plane into pieces. (12 words)
Flatter ball skidding through length and Salt's attempted cut is no match to the delivery. (16 words)
Both of these tracks are black-graded on a good day, but there is a huge difference between trying to ride these ‘for fun’ and then trying to race on them once 300 people have spent a whole Saturday skidding them to bits in the tipping rain! (47 words)
As Kevin Harvick overtook Mark Martin in a photo finish to win the race in 2007, a series of accidents behind them led to Clint Bowyer’s Chevrolet skidding on its roof on fire as it crossed the finish line. (40 words)
In 1950s Hawaii, “there were stories of on a rainy day, when the snails all came out and crawled all over the road,” Cowie said, “the cars would squish them and cars would end up skidding on the squished snail. (40 words)
Skidding along contaminated runways, incredible cost for engineering, a moveable touchdown point with very little in the way of visual indicators? (21 words)
Both of these tracks are black-graded on a good day, but there is a huge difference between trying to ride these ‘for fun’ and then trying to race on them once 300 people have spent a whole Saturday skidding them to bits in the tipping rain! (47 words)
Example sentences (20)
Almost immediately, half of the pack broke and began skidding and tumbling down the steepest part of the incline at the top, while a few skipped and rolled much further down the hill.
A motorcyclist was killed on Friday morning after losing control of his bike and skidding on the East Bank Demerara Public Road.
As Kevin Harvick overtook Mark Martin in a photo finish to win the race in 2007, a series of accidents behind them led to Clint Bowyer’s Chevrolet skidding on its roof on fire as it crossed the finish line.
He looks for the moments many people miss: Skidding tire tracks in the road or the way a dried stalk pops up in the middle of a house with snow dusting the image.
Thomas sent a low skidding shot past Posh keeper Matthew Laycock to secure the U's a dramatic draw in their last Professional Development League match of the season at the JobServe Community Stadium.
A heavy snowfall has guaranteed much of Quebec a white Christmas, but it has also sent cars skidding off the province's roads during the busy holiday travel period.
Don’t slam on the brakes if your car is skidding as if your wheels are locked, it will only cause you to skid further out of control.
Flatter ball skidding through length and Salt's attempted cut is no match to the delivery.
Footage of the landing showed the plane skidding on the underside of the fuselage, as fire trucks rushed to the plane once it came to rest.
Sabalenka is foxed by a couple of skidding efforts.
That sent the stock skidding—shares delivered a mere 9% total return, not only underperforming the broader market, but lagging the tech sector’s 56% return by a whopping 47 percentage points.
Often the culprit is a broken tree limb or debris from a building that strikes a power line, or a skidding vehicle hitting a pole.
One of the junior techs at work was driving one of our unmarked vans last winter and went off the road and hit the rail after skidding on black ice.
Skidding along contaminated runways, incredible cost for engineering, a moveable touchdown point with very little in the way of visual indicators?
The force of skidding off the runway split the plane into pieces.
Andreas Johnsson had two goals and an assist, and Toronto routed the skidding Detroit Red Wings 6-0 on Wednesday night for its third straight win since Keefe got the job.
Both of these tracks are black-graded on a good day, but there is a huge difference between trying to ride these ‘for fun’ and then trying to race on them once 300 people have spent a whole Saturday skidding them to bits in the tipping rain!
In 1950s Hawaii, “there were stories of on a rainy day, when the snails all came out and crawled all over the road,” Cowie said, “the cars would squish them and cars would end up skidding on the squished snail.
Robinson came to a skidding stop before steadying himself and shooting low through a crowded goal area and into the net to the obvious delight of the home support.
The aircraft flattened out initially, skidding over the ground towards stationary aircraft and striking a glancing blow against the nose of an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft before beginning to explode and cartwheel into the crowd of spectators.
Common combinations with skidding
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- skidding on 5×
- the skidding 3×
- and skidding 2×
- skidding off 2×
- of skidding 2×
- without skidding 2×