stone skipping in a sentence

• Network attention was episodic, newspaper coverage in most places a stone skipping over the surface.
• "It was like a stone skipping on the water, " said Gooden.
• His easygoing repartee changes direction without warning, like a flat stone skipping across a quiet lake.
• X-rays will reflect if they hit a slightly angled surface, bouncing off like a stone skipping across a pond.
• STONE-SKIPPING-FORMULA-NEW-SCIENTIST _ The idle pastime of stone skipping has been reduced to a mathematical formula.
• Lang's murmurs encourage Dibiasio to envision a stone skipping on a lake, water rippling as the stone plunges deeper and deeper.
• For the next few beats he stood with his eyes fixed on Franklin, who whirled across the studio like a polished stone skipping along the water.
• She sees the world as a garden, be it the vista from a hike in the mountains or the ripples made by a stone skipping across a quiet pond.
• From a distance, its slender arches seem to imitate a stone skipping across the nine miles of Northumberland Strait from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island, which everyone here calls just P . E . I.
• The trick, Carter explained Thursday, is for the plane's flight to carry it skipping in and out of the Earth's upper atmosphere like a flat stone skipping over the surface of a pond.
• It's difficult to see stone skipping in a sentence .
• The basic concept is to'clip'the atmosphere at such an angle that the spacecraft is'pushed'back out into space, conceptually similar to a flat stone skipping across the surface of a lake.
• While running at very low speeds produces little or no wake, a modern ferry is designed to push itself up higher in the water at high speeds _ almost like a stone skipping across a pond _ and with less hull in the water, it pushes aside relatively small wakes.
• His life was one of incessant eager questioning of nature on all sides, and his many and varied works all bear the stamp of a fresh and original genius, capable of stating and solving problems in all departments of science at one time finding the true explanation of stone skipping ( formerly attributed to the elasticity of water ) and at another helping to lay the foundations of our modern volcanology and meteorology.
• A stone skipping ( aka stone skimming ) championship of a different nature takes place every year in Easdale, Scotland, where distance is measured as opposed to number of skips, as tends to be the case outside the US . Since 1997, competitors from all over the world have taken part in the World Stone Skimming Championships in a disused quarry on Easdale Island, using sea-worn Easdale slate.
• Brian Tolle's computer-generated series of ripples, splashes and droplets beneath Bow Bridge over the Central Park Lake that simulate the effect of a stone skipping across water; " Sirens and Harpies, " 20 bronze mythological creatures by Kiki Smith poised at the entrance to the Central Park Zoo; Keith Edmier's " Emil Dobbelstein and Henry Drope, 1944, " a pair of three-quarter-size war memorials dedicated to his grandfathers, at the Doris C . Freedman Plaza, Fifth Avenue and 60th Street; and Kim Sooja's richly embroidered bed coverings that adorn the tables of the Leaping Frog Cafe.