Example sentences for: skids

How can you use “skids” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When it skids into a building and overturns it doesn't explode: Its tanks are full of milk for the starving people.

  • Republicans, hold the door open for that man, grease the skids and give him a helpful boot down the steep, swift road to sure and deserved oblivion."

  • An old college friend of mine who celebrated his twentieth birthday—meaning twenty years of AA sobriety—a couple of years ago, tells me that when he was on the skids and riding the rails from drunk tank to drunk tank, the favorite terms for muscat were muscadoodle and Napa Valley smoke .

  • Driving home from the set one day, James skids into oncoming traffic and crashes head-on into another car, killing its driver, whose widow, Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter), stares in shock.


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