sliderin a sentence
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He has a wicked slider.
slider = baseball: a pitch that appears to be a fastball, but has some break like a curveball
- In the open, the late moon had given plenty of light, but once in the woods Glen had to flick the slider up on the flashlight and swing the beam to and fro across the tangle of night-black foliage to see where he was going.† (source)
- The barn's rear slider was wide open, giving way to a dark, muddy slope of rugged fields that stretched out into the night behind the barn.† (source)
- I crossed the frosted, snow-patched grass and pushed the big door back on its slider, then back farther, because the westering sun made up for the electric lights that had been shut off.† (source)
- In the second inning Thomson hits a slider on a line over third.† (source)
- She pulled the slider closed behind her and marched to her bedroom, doing her best to work up the anger she felt the situation merited.† (source)
- Now she could see that it had a small slider on top.† (source)
- No. The slider is—† (source)
- He retrieved the boat key and headed out the back slider, untied Moby, and watched as Moby raced past him down the steps.† (source)
- 'Well, my Slider,' said Mr Squeers, jocularly.† (source)
- Out of sight, Slider, quite out of sight.† (source)
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- 'And now you're up, my Slider,' bawled Squeers, as she rose to fetch them, 'bolt the door.'† (source)
- Take care of that, Slider, literally for God's sake.† (source)
- All I say is, Slider, I wouldn't do it.'† (source)
- 'But, first and foremost, Slider, burn the box.† (source)
- When the house was out of sight, I sat, with my bird-cage in the straw at my feet, forward on the low seat to look out of the high window, watching the frosty trees, that were like beautiful pieces of spar, and the fields all smooth and white with last night's snow, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the skaters and sliders had brushed the snow away.† (source)
- 'More than even, Slider,' returned Squeers; 'you'd have been even with him if he'd got married; but with the disappointment besides, you're a long way ahead.† (source)
- But you're a bold woman, Slider.'† (source)
- And that reminds me,' he added, handing her the glass, 'if you want me to give you my opinion of them deeds, and tell you what you'd better keep and what you'd better burn, why, now's your time, Slider.'† (source)
- 'See here, then,' said Squeers, accompanying his remarks with appropriate action, 'I fill the glass from the bottle, and I say "Your health, Slider," and empty it; then I rinse it genteelly with a little drop, which I'm forced to throw into the fire—hallo!† (source)
- Some money, Slider, money!'† (source)
- Delivering this reply in his accustomed tone of voice, in which of course it was inaudible to Peg, Mr Squeers drew a stool to the fire, and placing himself over against her, and the bottle and glass on the floor between them, roared out again, very loud, 'Well, my Slider!'† (source)
- I'm a sort of a lawyer, Slider, of first-rate standing, and understanding too; I'm the intimate friend and confidential adwiser of pretty nigh every man, woman, and child that gets themselves into difficulties by being too nimble with their fingers, I'm—' Mr Squeers's catalogue of his own merits and accomplishments, which was partly the result of a concerted plan between himself and Ralph Nickleby, and flowed, in part, from the black bottle, was here interrupted by Mrs Sliderskew.† (source)
- 'Why, I suppose they can't do much to me, if I explain how it was that I got into the good company of that there ca-daverous old Slider,' replied Squeers viciously, 'who I wish was dead and buried, and resurrected and dissected, and hung upon wires in a anatomical museum, before ever I'd had anything to do with her.† (source)
- That the mud, when rak'd up, be not left in heaps to be spread abroad again by the wheels of carriages and trampling of horses, but that the scavengers be provided with bodies of carts, not plac'd high upon wheels, but low upon sliders, with lattice bottoms, which, being cover'd with straw, will retain the mud thrown into them, and permit the water to drain from it, whereby it will become much lighter, water making the greatest part of its weight; these bodies of carts to be plac'd at convenient distances, and the mud brought to them in wheel-barrows; they remaining where plac'd till the mud is drain'd, and then horses brought to draw them away.† (source)
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