kick up

Examples of kicked

kicked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He wanted a continuity so that, as one scene ended, the next one kicked in.
Multi-dimensioned intertwined basin boundaries: basin structure of the kicked double rotor.
Orbits are trapped for some time in the vicinity of periodic attractors, but eventually are kicked by noise into the fractal boundary region.
Then, no, she hasn't ' ' kicked the bucket ' ', as you so charmingly put it.
However, the significant negative value of the focal dummy indicates that there was also some countervailing factor that kicked in later on.
And third, even if she were no longer alive, she wouldn't have ' ' kicked the bucket ' ' but she would have ' ' deceased ' ' or ' ' passed away ' '.
Then the little girl's sister came over and kicked the blocks over on purpose.
A young man in remission had a first memory of his ginger cat being kicked off the balcony by one of his dad's enemies.
We walked through the doors as the wine and valium kicked in.
The petit bourgeois unions and their political representatives kicked back wildly.
What was new, though, was the inclusion of an explicit two-year time limit before a work requirement kicked in.
By 1996, the media hype machine had kicked into full gear.
He was hit on his legs and ribs with sticks, kicked in his stomach, and punched in his face, neck and chest.
To include kicked systems into the geometric framework introduced above, we start with the following observation.
One of the problems that we kicked around was that of dueling-silent duels, noisy duels, and so on.
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