How To Use Glissade In A Sentence
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I managed a standing glissade almost all the way from the summit to the top of the north-facing Coire Dheirg.
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Two weeks ago I sprained my ankle while doing a glissade in class.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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Kids who perform understand the difference between executing a glissade and presenting one with gusto.
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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
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We glissaded down a steep blue ice slope; to brake was impossible, for the sledge had taken charge.
South with Scott
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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
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He glissaded from, the austere altitudes of his self-respect, and his next words were already disingenuous.
Love and Mr Lewisham
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The notes washed over her a sparkling glissade carrying her up and out, her soul expanding into the immensity of the moment into the all enveloping love that was the great hall and she found herself at peace.
Glissando
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It seemed as if by a kind of glissade the chain of icebergs had drawn nearer to the island.
The Fur Country
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Incorporating steps like glissades and pas de chats, I created a series of sword pas de deux, where the dancers move weapons instead of their feet.
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The rush of water, the glissade of foam, and the slow withdrawal before the next rush.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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An Obama Foreign Policy Adviser Clarifies Senator's Views
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Where the slopes were not seamed with open crevasses we "glissaded," which is a very expeditious and exhilarating method of getting down a mountain, although unsafe unless one is certain of his ground.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
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Once I had past the subsidiary top of Carn Dearg Meadhonach I took advantage of a long snow glissade down a shallow corrie that dropped me down into the glen.
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The party glissaded down Roger's Glacier, crossed rocks and swollen streams, ate supper at a hut, then descended to the lower camp at 9: 00 pm.
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Transition steps, like a glissade or pas de bourrée, are often as important as pirouettes.
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Terray set his teeth, and glissaded down like a madman.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
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The rush of water, the glissade of foam, and the slow withdrawal before the next rush.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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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.
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‘I've got to go see them,’ Gary says, and glissades down a steep-sided bowl to the water.
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We didn't get to use words like "belay" or "glissade" but we felt victorious just the same.
Vail Daily - Top Stories
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The trees were supervising the long glissade from summer into autumn.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The time you glissaded down a ski trail on a trash bag.
Oh, What Fun It Is to Ride
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Frankly, I'm not built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
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This is equally important in the glissades side-to-side, when the second foot of one glissade becomes the first foot of the next glissade.
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Report: Obama Successfully Wooing Some Former Hillary Donors
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Transition steps, like a glissade or pas de bourrée, are often as important as pirouettes.
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We immediately took to the word because "glissade," said with just a hint of indeterminate European accent, sounded more respectable than "sliding on our backsides down the face of a snowy mountainside with our snowshoes splayed out in front of us and our poles dragging ingloriously behind.
NYT > Travel
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Happily we had an easy course down a snow gradient, which we glissaded in very unorthodox style.
Mr. Standfast
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The trees were supervising the long glissade from summer into autumn.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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And glissade that was sarcasm. markg8 wrote on February 20, 2007 11: 48 PM:
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Frankly, I ain't built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
