| It was this quick thinking that prevented the craft from being concertinaed against the mound of rubble it had crashed into. |
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| In one area of the compound lies a massive pile of concertinaed cars and burnt-out trucks, the flattened metal detritus of the brutal siege. |
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| This would prevent the situation now developing of matches being concertinaed as the weekend approaches, a gross injustice to players. |
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| It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it. |
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| My car was concertinaed and the doors wouldn't open, so I wound the window down and jumped out while there were still cars skidding and coming to a standstill. |
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| Another concertinaed together ghost-writing, biographical writing and the formation of literary movements, as collaborative processes of the same ilk. |
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| Using delicate georgette, the fabric was concertinaed into stiff, tight pleats scrunched into sculptural patterns. |
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| The select committee process is being unnecessarily concertinaed. |
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| Dominic's trousers slid down his legs, concertinaed around his feet. |
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| The grumpy dog was concertinaed into a tiny corner of the boot. |
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| Cars are concertinaed at the entry, like a ram-raid gone wrong. |
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| We've seen some unbelievable results at the weekend, it's concertinaed it. |
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| The streets we drove down were generally clear, but the buildings on either side of us had often been turned into giant concrete sandwiches as floors had concertinaed on top of each other. |
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| Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures. |
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| This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other. |
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