How To Use glissade In A Sentence
- I managed a standing glissade almost all the way from the summit to the top of the north-facing Coire Dheirg.
- Two weeks ago I sprained my ankle while doing a glissade in class.
- Designers glissaded around Motown or Tokyo -- and, often enough, Southern California, where many automakers headquartered their design operations -- in monochrome suits, exotic eyeglasses and pricey footwear, presenting themselves as artistic companions to contemporary architects like Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind, or noted product designers such as Philippe Starck. Matthew DeBord: After the Golden Age, Can Car Design Go Green?
- Then slipping, feet foremost off the ledge, he glissaded down on his back, bending his knees at the exact moment when his feet thudded heavily on to the sand. The Mistress of Shenstone
- A long, lingering snow patch gave a superb standing glissade back down to the col before the last scramble up to An Caisteal, the castle.
- Probably the most beautiful spectacle ever afforded by the natural world is that of a complete and far-reaching ice-storm, locally known as a glissade, transcending in delicate aerial fantasy the swiftly changing faint green panorama of early spring or the amber hazes of opulent autumn. Ringfield A Novel
- Kids who perform understand the difference between executing a glissade and presenting one with gusto.
- Let's go hunting," he hollered as the door chimed open and we glissaded down the gravel embankment. How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway
- We glissaded down a steep blue ice slope; to brake was impossible, for the sledge had taken charge. South with Scott
- Walton brilliantly captures the glissade from compromise to compromise that leads to dystopia, and the courage of decent people who are betrayed by the laws and people they trust. Farthing
