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Sentence Examples All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with makeshift clubs. I never thought I would get anywhere near the Olympic qualifying time and my biggest fear was hitting the wall. Muons are particles created high up above the Earth's surface by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere. Moehler seems to be hitting the wall around the 100-pitch mark, a trend that's worrisome in light of shoulder soreness he has experienced. After hitting a great drive, he put his second shot on the front of the green while his opponent was in trouble. I had just taken some lessons from my club pro, and I was hitting my drives in the fairway and the putts were dropping. I'm driving slowly, but I have to jam on the brakes twice to avoid hitting pedestrians who walk in front of my car. At sunset I lounge in my four-poster bed and watch as the waves wash onto the rocks, spray hitting the veranda. He was still hitting me but I was thinking he had my money and I wasn't going to let him go. Not only will the ball generally finish only a few yards in front of you, hitting the ground behind the ball also jars your body. She stumbled on the stairs, tripping and hitting the ground painfully, jarring her arm under her body. Questions included whether study participants considered themselves quick-tempered or whether they felt like hitting someone when they got angry. Quietly, against the gentle sound of wavelets hitting the sleeping island, someone could be heard sobbing. Practice narrowing your focus by hitting a tee that is stuck in the back of the cup directly on line with your ball. Instead of hitting each other and bouncing off like bumper cars, the atoms join together and function as one entity. By hitting production and refining capacity it has pushed up an already high oil price, lifted petrol prices and led to shortages. The broken end whipped forward, hitting me in the hand, leaving a small cut and red welt. And she didn't need you hauling off and hitting her with both barrels like that! In another separate incident, a youth threw a stone at a different cruise boat last weekend, hitting the side of the wheelhouse. He had no compunction in reducing officers to the ranks or hitting men who failed the test in action. Show More Sentences Poster adverts that talk to people walking by could soon be hitting the high street. Polo players have individual preferences for the amount of whippiness they need to properly time the hitting of a polo ball. The sound of the sea hitting the ship made it difficult to sleep and the rattle of tin dishes sounded over the groans of passengers being sick. A long keeler usually withstands the actual impact better, if you fail to avoid hitting the rocks. Each dumpling melted in my mouth, the creamy tomato hitting my taste buds almost as an afterthought. But they do a lot of work in training with me and we emphasise hitting the target and making the keeper work. During his evidence Akhtar denied hitting anyone or wielding any weapons himself. You will find yourself accidentally hitting the Alt and delete keys quite a bit. My car had been keyed and my kids had been verbally assaulted after accidentally hitting the neighbour's window with a snowball. Instead of hitting the man's chest, Carl winded him again by hitting him in the stomach. The man said he did not want any trouble but then pointed an air pistol at the ground and fired it, hitting the victim in the left calf. In the wake of the food scares of recent years the organic message is hitting home. On Monday we revealed high levels of winter vomiting disease were hitting hospital wards, care homes and schools across Greater Manchester. While Jake was hitting the kingbolts with a screwdriver, the garage owner came by and said to stop doing that, as it was hard on the screwdriver. They were always genuine and kept their feet on the ground even after hitting the big time. Most players are hitting long irons and fairway woods for the second shot to a green complex that faces north and has plenty of shade. The force of fat raindrops hitting my head was hard enough to make me wince. Lord knows how we will all cope when the truly important stuff begins and people in curious woollies are hitting dimpled balls into little holes. We all want to minimize the impact on the innocent, but losing to evil in order to avoid hitting a population is worse. The reflective platelets focus the light downward and modulate it to match the intensity of the moonlight hitting the ground. Show More Sentences Bid adieu to dainty wristlets when you're hitting the trails, swimming laps or squeezing in a set at the gym. She sped up, hitting eighty, then ninety, gaining distance the entire time. The Metro came to rest in the driveway of a house in Battle Road after striking a lamp post and hitting a brick wall. He began firing wildly, his silenced rounds lancing out, and hitting the wall all around the terrorists. The man they will renominate is hitting the campaign trail just as hard right now. Europeans caught on first, then Jones' rep spread through the global club scene, eventually hitting the North American college market. Then you'll drop the weight to do the one-arm lat extension, changing the angle at which you're hitting the lats and working more muscle fibers. The range covers the full spectrum from ultraportable to desktop replacement, hitting all price points along the way. The driver of the car had stopped for children to cross at the zebra crossing and was hit from behind, almost hitting the children crossing. Amusingly, I thought for a moment that one of these three was hitting on the eligible bachelorette Miss Marple. These films regale as they repulse, hitting the gag reflex and the funny bone simultaneously. The barrier we are hitting is basically the barrier set by the laws of atomic physics. It's yet another way of hitting the pocket of the law-abiding, dutiful driver. There must be bad karma zinging around the world like a pinball hitting bumpers. In the '70s the idea of a lead-off man hitting 30 home runs was preposterous. Manuel, a former major league batting coach, would talk hitting with the minor leaguers. Younger children may strike their older siblings, while older siblings are restrained from hitting back. Although O'Malley continued to come forward McLeod delivered all of the important shots, hitting him with rights and lefts. Hundley has good power, and his return to righthanded hitting late last year should keep him in the lineup against both lefties and righthanders. An unidentified poacher opened fire on the leopardess with the bullet hitting her in the back, WWF representatives said in a statement. Show More Sentences Since hitting the floor last year, its value has steadily climbed again in line with a general recovery in the sector. I believe they use ceramic bullets which are designed to fragment on hitting a hard object, preventing ricochets and depressurisation. It's here, two weeks later, he figured out that a left-handed grip wasn't for him, turned round and started hitting right-handed. I AM not a believer in hitting players with hefty punishments any time they step out of line. The challenge replicates the traditions of the game when shepherds played across country hitting stones with their crooks. On April Fool's Day 1997, dozens of people went out on skulling missions, hitting hundreds of billboards on busy Toronto streets. He then grabbed his chest and fell off the ring apron, hitting his head on the wooden floor. I think it may have been the director's career hitting rock bottom with his latest horror effort. Still, the robot is pretty impressive, though we think he needs to get on some roids before he can start hitting those homeruns. On old wood lanes, bowlers would have to loft the ball farther out on the lane to get the ball to delay its hook and have enough hitting power. Pete started off on the first tee hitting the ball very long and right down the middle. Last week, she appeared in the papers looking shockingly gaunt, and it was reported she has been hitting the bottle again. Now the 27 year old from Pamplona is hitting the steepest part of the ascent, and gritting his teeth as the road ramps up. She keeps her stand-up sharp by hitting the Provincetown comedy circuit every summer. The viewer's eyes and ears are assaulted for hours by sights and sounds of hitting, slapping, slugging, whipping, and torturing. As we crossed the street onto the sidewalk a car came out of nowhere and ran the red light, hitting a light pole and hitting Mark. I seem to remember a lot of hitting, with the Dodgers scoring at least 11 runs. Then one of the drunken louts caught her foot and she tumbled forward, hitting her head on the hardwood chair. Her ears picked up the sound of a soft rustle, and then beneath it, the quiet steady thudding of cushioned weight hitting the ground. However, when you have 14 or 15 stone moving around at speed and hitting you, it's going to take its toll. Show More Sentences Sack dresses, shift dresses and shirt dresses are hitting the fashion scene in a big way. Post-dinner, I decided to catch up with some reading before hitting the sack. I recommend you clean your face with a scrubbing gel in the morning before going to work or at night before hitting the sack. Watching them play last night was a nice way to end the day before hitting the sack with a smile. Whatever hitting skills these transient players once had are now atrophied from disuse. The saga began two years ago when a swimmer died after hitting his head on a submerged post in the lake. Close-range striking or longer-range missile or projectile weapons provide tactical hitting or firepower. Now imagine we've got two laser beams hitting the atom, one coming from the left, the other from the right. It comes into my life at an auspicious moment, as I will be hitting the road on Sunday. A soldier on the back of the truck saw him and fired his machine gun, hitting him in the chest with a half dozen rounds. The monster took to flight and fell backward, hitting the ground and rolling to his feet. He is no long the hard hitting slugger with a swing that could shake a stadium, but he still has a little bit of magic in his old bones. A lot of times, we were hitting off the tee with a sand iron over the last couple of years. Did the previous writers mention that they dressed like they were hitting the beach at 3.00 a.m. tanked up on beer? Just the wind was hitting the tree branches outside which tapped at the window, giving the light from the front garden gate foul shadows. Pierzynski is hitting the ball with authority, more than compensating for off-target throws to second base. We have much more refined taste in entertainment, like baiting the guy who's so drunk he's hitting on the beer vendor two rows over. As if our hitting and fielding weren't pitiful enough, our baby-blue uniforms carried the name of the local mental hospital. These baby baby grands and tiny spinets produce three octaves from hammers hitting metal rods. To see if you're hitting the ball on the sweet spot, sprinkle baby powder on the clubface before hitting a shot. Show More Sentences They call it T-bone because it looks like a T-bone steak, like you're hitting a perpendicular head-on. They started out like a great burning thing, hitting the ball all over the park, running the bases with abandon, and scoring scads of runs. All the while he's hitting the high notes, tears into the three-guitar attack and basically whips the crowd into an intoxicated frenzy. Yelping in pain he tried to parry her attacks, but the onslaught came so fast he stumbled, hitting the ground hard. We hear stories of war veterans hitting the ground when they hear a car backfiring. If you feel sluggish before hitting the softball field, scarf an energy-boosting bagel or banana. He kept playing, but after hitting his tee shot on the sixth, he had to withdraw. In fact, take some popcorn to the practice tee and alternate hitting golf balls and pieces of popcorn. Batting in softball, teeing off in golf and hitting a forehand in tennis also require the type of muscle conditioning provided by this exercise. All that backspin made the ball upshoot dramatically when hitting into the wind. She no longer had to worry about drifting too far behind the ball in her backswing and hitting fat or thin shots. In his conception of bad faith, Sartre is hitting upon the notion of responsibility. It's not too difficult to imagine an errant chainsaw blade hitting precisely the right spot with precisely the right angle with which to sever. When a History Channel doc makes you think, then the writers and researchers have done their job, they're hitting their marks as well as can be. She threw the last knife she was holding at the target in frustration, not hitting far off from the target mark. Cases hitting the ground will inevitably pick up grit that can scratch the inside of the die and leave a mark on every case loaded. One was holding a sledge hammer and began hitting the security screen while another tried to smash an internal door. He had stopped hitting me since Jack knocked him out the last time he tried. Bullock thanks her lucky stars that she had been working for a number of years before hitting the Hollywood jackpot. The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail. Show More Sentences He fired once into the air, and then a second time, hitting James in the arm. If it's not those fancy new shoes they're wearing, you can bet your boots they didn't prepare properly before hitting the slopes at the weekend. Also known as the deep sea perch, the species was first targeted in the northeast Atlantic in 1991, with annual catches soon hitting 5,000 tons. The lovely sound of barf hitting the trash can became background music to Mark and Hikaru's yelling. The home team had plenty of early possession, and adopted the obvious tactics of hitting the ball up close to ruck and maul via their big men. And despite the euro hitting its peak while I was there, I still managed to raise cultural experiences to the max. From where we were, we could see them thrashing him mercilessly, hitting him with stones. He says the cold weather also helps because it makes him concentrate on hitting the ball on the sweet spot of the bat. Seeing the movement, he threw his knife hitting the man squarely in the chest. The circle of light thrown by the flashlight was still hitting a granite wall, but a feet or two lower, it was not. The Blue Archer quickly recovered and threw a few more punches, a few hitting their mark, parrying the retaliating blows well. I felt a gentle brush of lips against mine and I jumped back, hitting my head on the stone. Kiko rolled her eyes, grabbing a throw pillow on the couch and hitting her over the head with it. Water was her favored element, and she had always found the steady thrum of raindrops hitting the earth to be soothing. She heard the soft thud of something hitting the ground, and crawled back to pick it up. We picked up our pace as the thudding of heavy boots hitting the pavement reached our ears. Guys are dumb, it takes us a couple of thwacks before we stop hitting our heads on walls. The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects. He served out the final game at love, hitting a 119 mph second serve for a winner on match point. Having a beau who is a good person and a thoughtful lover is like hitting the jackpot. Show More Sentences Apart from a savage, but mercifully brief, bout of hitting by Adam Gilchrist in the early overs, the innings had belonged very much to England. Okay, maybe the tipsiness is talking right now, or maybe I was slightly delusional when he was hitting on me, but there is a point to this call. Sure enough, she's hitting balls off the hosel, she's hitting it off the toe. The pain keeps hitting me in waves, ranging from barely tolerable to excruciating. Adam thought about hitting Joe with it since the old gun weighed a short ton and had the kick of a mule when it went off. Around him, bombs were set off, but he only noticed it because he saw them hitting the dark barrier and creating ripples through the shield. He admitted hitting himself in the face with a brick to make his tale more believable and was cautioned for wasting police time. At the same time, I wanted her right forearm to roll over as if she were hitting a forehand topspin shot in tennis. When you do it right, the sensation is like hitting a topspin Ping-Pong shot with your left hand. For whatever sophistication guess hitting may require, it's also a touchy subject. The twist-up pencil point lets you dot concealer exactly on the spot without hitting the surrounding skin. After hitting the second tractor trailer, the bus overturned, colliding with two cars and two motorcycles. As silent as a mouse I followed him, the pads of my feet barely hitting the dirt. The driver responded by hitting Singh with his truck and dragging him for 30 feet. This jaw-dropping footage shows a car hitting a large bear, sending the animal tumbling off the road. Wearing a lap belt keeps you anchored to the car seat and your shoulder belt keeps your upper body from pitching forward and hitting the airbag as it deploys. Twenty-two years after the original Total Recall, Colin Farrell takes on the role originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger in a reboot hitting theaters Friday. While the finished product is probably years from hitting the market, the era of driverless cars is closer than you think. Babe Ruth, meanwhile, began knocking balls out of parks as if hitting tee shots at a driving range. He was replaced by Gareth, who had an excellent game, marshalling his back-line well and hitting two thirds of his place kicks in windy conditions. Show More Sentences The quadruple whammy is hitting winemakers like a 10-ton barrel. Management may be good at hitting targets, doing cash-flow levels, but they are rubbish at recognising stress in staff and quite often they don't want to know. What did you use as the hammer during that kill scene, and were you just hitting a dummy that spurted blood out? Last year in the final, Roddick tried the blunderbuss approach, going for broke on just about every shot, serving like a demon and hitting the lines with his ground-strokes. Such as hitting Juanita while she was holding their child, who was just several months old. As Mr Smith got into Hickson's van, Hickson fired off both barrels of the gun, one blast hitting him in the neck, the other hitting the driver's seat. The Shaheen campaign pounced, spending part of the next day hitting the hustings in Sullivan County. The song did indeed become an underground hit before hitting the mainstream, reaching No. 15 on the RB singles chart. Over the course of the next week the images of these planes hitting the Towers would be replayed so often that they are now ghostly visions forever imprinted on my mind. The emphasis on hitting your marks was not nearly as pronounced. Confidence in technocrat Mario Monti has been hitting a new low amid the debt crisis. You can change the greeting on the lock screen by hitting the edit button. This revolution, of course, is about power, about hitting the ball harder than women have ever hit it before, and turning forehands and backhands into serious weaponry. There were reports of people hitting people but nobody touched anybody. They kept on hitting one man with an axe handle and it was unbearable. The Senate races in both states are tight as a tick, with no candidate hitting 50 percent in any of the polls. With media attention hitting fever pitch, a strangely lupine man called Wolf decides to take up the hunt, interrupting Dusty's incompetent press conference. He reached a 102-ball ton at the declaration, hitting 14 boundaries. Inevitably, he's been given the less interesting of the two roles and does his best with it, hitting the requisite notes of sarcasm, brutality and integrity. The reason for not using knotted tapered leaders when fishing with very small flies is you will often get fish hitting the knots in mistake for a tiny insect. Show More Sentences I myself am thinking that my semi-annual haircut can probably wait another couple of weeks, so I'll be hitting her tip jar as soon as I get paid again on Friday. Said it was like speed dating because he was late after hitting every wrong gate on the lot. He then began hitting himself, and busted himself open hardway. They had probably seen planes hitting buildings from a dozen angles. He also knew all about technique, teaching Allan to rugby tackle in the classical style of the day, hitting the opponent low in the thighs and sliding to grasp his ankles. And soon all of America got to see Ray in the ring with Janay, hitting her with a shot in the jaw. Manchester city centre had already bucked the national trend for a drop in sales in the run up to Christmas and has also shown a leap in the amount of cash hitting the tills. Danby had beaten the York-based side in the first match of the season but Rowntree made a brilliant start with Vanessa Walker hitting the woodwork with a blistering shot. In a shopping mall, I hesitated because an innocent person was behind the shooter and I feared hitting her. The morning was thus quite agreeable, and the conscientious ice cream vendor would have been out hitting the streets and taking advantage of those fair-weather revelers. But very little of the ISIS ethos has to do with hitting the Freedom Tower or the Capitol Dome. Once a dasher with the bat, then altering his game, morphing into a grafter, then again, at the very end of his career, throwing his bat at anything in hitting distance. I'm always hitting marks, and saying the jokes, and having a good time. As fears of the virus hitting Europe intensify, health officials warn that paranoia and racial profiling may grow, as well. That is seriously fast, and on one daring high speed run, it proved to be stable too, as long as you get it out of fourth gear well before hitting redline. Though this drill is normally used to help cure the slice swing of a beginner, it can help a good player make the switch from fading the ball to hitting a draw. Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets? The look on a man's face as he is being rugby tackled or when putting 100 per cent effort into hitting or kicking something are quite beyond belief. I know there was no wound on my wrist before hitting the sack because upon retiring I took off my watch and did not observe any blemish in the left wrist area. Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again. Show More Sentences And then, just remember that before you know it, you'll be hitting the back-to-school sales and riffling through the sweaters you have stored in the attic. A torch was shown in her face and she recoiled back in pain hitting the wall of wood behind her, blinking hard to try and accustom her eyes to the sharp light. By the fifth round, he had a point deducted for hitting after the bell. The wind was blowing through her fancy curtained window and a light breeze hit her long brown hair as it dangled off the bed hitting the pale purple and mauve comforter. No one in the Hall of Fame was the very best at every hitting or Fielding measurement all the time either. The underarm lob is better suited to operations in woodland, where an overarm throw may result in the grenade hitting a tree or branch, and bouncing back towards the thrower! Tupac was 17 or 18 years old when he stopped me from hitting this guy over the head with a fire extinguisher. Maligned forward Jamal Mashburn has improved his defense and stayed healthy, and 34-year-old warhorse Dan Majerle is still capable of hitting clutch jump shots. Since hitting the jackpot nearly a fortnight ago Michael Turner, 44, and his partner Lesley Learad, 40, have resigned from their jobs at a manufacturing plant and a pharmacy. A mix of clear ice and rime ice is formed when droplets vary in size or when snow, various-sized droplets and ice pellets make up the mix that is hitting the plane. He leveled his pistol and fired, hitting one of the men in the shoulder. And candidates are practiced at hitting the hot buttons that fire up their base. After the usual checks and balances were performed, Tony received his payment in one lump sum wired to his account within a week of hitting the jackpot. In Division One, Ingleton Reserves had no luck in front of goal with three shots hitting the woodwork, while City Contracts went ahead with a Nigel Barrass goal. Would you like a hot chocolate before hitting the sack, Harley? Few frocks hitting the rails right now are boasting thigh-high hemlines. Almost immediately she tripped and fell over, hitting the ground heavily, the impact forcing the breath from her body and sending a shaft of agony through her belly. In fact, research has shown that hitting the weights without fuel can lead to the breakdown of muscle. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me. About 150 of the 1,500 people who died when the ocean liner sank off Newfoundland after hitting an iceberg were buried in Halifax, and 43 never were identified. Show More Sentences One cop who admitted to hitting the man went on to become one of the five whites on the six-member Ferguson City Council. A few years ago, I was hitting a roadblock in my personal work. He was constantly hitting Adrian's side with the flat of his blade. Kelly cruises through genres like he's giving a guided tour, hitting crunk, dancehall, hip-hop, reggaeton, and naturally, a handful of bedroom ballads along the way. They were hitting on all cylinders as they mined the acrid ore of Mamet's singular cynicism. I get the feeling I couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Baldwin. One of her friends, Marissa Chavez, told the Associated Press that she saw DiMaggio hitting on Anderson. Directed by Aroona Irani who also acts in it, its hour long-episodes have of late been hitting enough of an emotional pitch to delight those who love a well-made tear-jerker. This here is tectonic heat, a contrast hitting at the heart of why we love sport in the first place. A player will eventually prefer a certain degree of whippiness that will be factored into that particular player's approach and timing crucial to hitting a polo ball. Julie aimed her guns and shot them up, hitting each one in the head a ton. It turned out the storm lost just enough power before hitting land to disqualify it from hurricane status. He was wearing a blue plastic cagoule with the hood up, pulled tight round his face, his paddles rhythmically hitting the cold water, constant as clockwork. But maybe she was hitting the applejack a bit too hard that night. Richard Dalby broke clear but his shot struck a post and rebounded back, hitting a retreating defender on the knee and cannoning into the net from 18 yards out. Just when you think you couldn't possibly see another choice, a new page opens up in the menu, hitting you with dhansak, dupiaza, madras and vindaloo. There's a way to do this if you're real careful and delicate with the controls but I'm your basic klutz and what I keep doing is hitting the buttons wrong and losing my place. My problem is that the film should start with the GIs leaving the landing craft and hitting the beach and finish with the assault on the German bunker. When hitting the frames together strike the aluminium not the plastic lug. Butterkin, a new variety of winter squash, will be hitting the retail market this fall. Show More Sentences Hops come forward with this beer, hitting the palate with that resiny pine bitterness and hints of grapefruit. Meanwhile, not so Simple Simon is determined to get Carla out of his dad's life, so cooks up a story about Carla hitting him. Long before Mike Piazza became baseball's best hitting catcher, he decided to call it quits one day. Lifeboats were launched as the Sirena Seaways vessel began listing after hitting a quayside. Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung, Sharp and others are also hitting the market with digital camcorders that have premium price points. The only constants in the five lineups so far have been Darin Erstad batting leadoff, Vladimir Guerrero hitting third and Garret Anderson fourth. The damage from hitting the iceberg head on was at the bow rather than amidship. Meanwhile, hitting at Jayalalith over misgovernance, Elangovan said that the AIADMK government had done minimal developmental work in the state. Slickly produced and hitting all the right beats, Ora has yet another hit on her hands. As a child, he used to practice by hitting sand wedges over the dog and up the stairs. My group had a great time flicking, hitting and passing the ball, or sliotar, to give it its Gaelic name. After making a storming debut appearance at Sonisphere, Evile are hitting the road again and heading to Bloodstock. A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for two years for hitting another man with a car-jack in a road-rage attack. When hitting a chip shot from the edge of the green, it is important to finish the stroke well. Hannah Williams, Laura Evans E Hughes, Cody Jane Hughes and Leanne Hughes were the home markswomen, Seren Williams hitting back for Bay. And now, we're even seeing some non-traditional premium box wine that is hitting the mark with consumers. Crush shortbreads by placing in a sturdy bag and hitting with a rolling pin. With the global financial crisis still hitting hard, the air du temps today is a countrywide depressive mood. Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow? The bedtop hitting his neck had been worked into the dream as his execution of the dream that we remember when we wake up. Show More Sentences He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand. Mark Sherwood, the caddie for Fredrik Jacobson, led for much of the contest after hitting an 8-iron a little low on the clubface. Colorado was in the double bonus for the last few minutes of the game, but had trouble hitting the free throws. I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it. The squirt was hitting 25-foot jumpers handedly, although she wasn't one for that whole dribbling thing. Those two are really hitting it off. I wouldn't be surprised if they started dating soon. They go to the beach when they should be hitting the books and then they wonder why they get bad grades. The frog is the foundation of the plow bottom, it takes the shock loads resulting from hitting rocks, and therefore, should be tough and strong. The main problems with such vehicles are instability and also the risk of hitting trees or bridges. In the same month, an empty bus had its roof removed after hitting a railway bridge in Isleworth West London. Debut singles of various UK garage artists were hitting the number one spot on the UK charts. His role is to prevent the ball from hitting the stumps by use of his bat, and simultaneously to strike it well enough to score runs. The batsman tries to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket by striking the ball with his bat. A legal service starts a rally, in which the players alternate hitting the ball across the net. In general, boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, or spitting. After the serve, the players take turns hitting the ball against the front wall, above the tin and below the out line. It must not hit the floor after hitting the racket and before hitting the front wall. When a player's shot hits their opponent prior to hitting the front wall, interference has occurred. A batter must try to hit any good balls that are bowled, but need not run hitting the ball. The best dartboards have the thinnest wire, so that the darts have less chance of hitting a wire and bouncing out. Show More Sentences Strokes are added for rule infractions or for hitting one's ball into an unplayable situation. Flintoff had a later appeal for a catch behind turned down by Rudi Koertzen, despite it hitting the bat. The Age of Melbourne criticised the team for opening their big mouths once too often, hitting at Australia's earlier whitewash boast. Boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, spitting on or wrestling their opponent. In his match with Stevens, frustrated at missing a shot, he almost snapped his cue in half by hitting it against the table. Some balls appear to have been dropped without being fired, some missed their targets, and others are distorted from hitting human bodies. This gave the explosion time to build up momentum, similar in principle to a hammer hitting a nail, enabling less plutonium to be used. The missile was intercepted and shot down by a Patriot missile seconds before hitting the complex. In 1774, this said that the batsman is out if, with design, he prevents the ball hitting the wicket with his leg. Nestorius exploded at that and hit out. He roared and dismissed the class, hitting out with his old mottled gnarled niefs. Countless professional golfers have seen their dreams of winning the Open Championship squandered by hitting their balls into those bunkers. A good drawing team will usually opt to play aggressively, while a good hitting team will opt to play defensively. By hitting all of the opponent's stones, it removes opportunities for their getting multiple points, therefore defending the lead. Gold further rallied hitting new highs in May 2010 after the European Union debt crisis prompted further purchase of gold as a safe asset. The subsequent bombardment to support the attack fell short in places, hitting British troops and provoking German artillery fire. Humpbacks hunt by direct attack or by stunning prey by hitting the water with pectoral fins or flukes. This made it possible for whales to move around with the vertical tail hitting the water. It started hitting London at around six o'clock toward evening in British time on the sixth of April, 1580, being Wednesday in Easter week. Watching the way the Pirates cut up the pea patch with their merciless hitting and precision fielding, the New Yorkers grew more dejected. Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms. Find more words! 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