Sentence examples for a decisive shot from inspiring English sources

In the modern world he was a midfield player able to cover a variety of functions, with a particular gift for turning up, like a Welsh Martin Peters, in space and unannounced to finish a move with a decisive shot or a header that seemed almost excessively powerful for one of his slender build.

Liverpudlian Walden, 23, beat Poland's Aleksandra Kowalczuk in the quarter-final of the +73kg division, striking a decisive shot with two seconds left.

They created another instant classic Tuesday night at Barclays Center, battling through a taut fourth quarter until Kidd — at 39, the N.B.A.'s third oldest player — hit the decisive shot, a 3-pointer with 24.1 seconds left that sent half the arena into delirium and the other half into despair.

But the Padres' second baseman, Bret Boone, made Mahomes the loser with a bases-empty homer of his own in the eighth, the decisive shot in a 5-4 Padres victory.

Whenever Youzhny tried to draw him into the net with a drop shot, Nadal almost always found time to respond with a decisive drop shot of his own.

The Royals closed it to 4-3 on Alex Gordon's two-run homer off reliever Jose Mijares in the eighth, and Kansas City added the tying run on a double play, before Cuddyer's decisive shot in the eighth.

Madsen batted superbly, giving his team-mates the benefit of a masterclass in how not to throw your wicket away while demonstrating simultaneously that, with a good technique, self-belief and decisive shot selection, scoring big runs need not be the preserve of the opposition.

As Esteban Cambiasso steadied himself for the decisive shot, the German goalie conspicuously consulted a crumpled piece of paper pulled out from under his shin pad.

Mr Fakhruddin could not go because he had to attend a family function, so he missed Mr Tanvir's decisive shot, just on midnight.

HURRICANES 3, THRASHERS 2 Cam Ward stopped 45 shots and visiting Carolina earned its second straight comeback win, beating Atlanta on Sergei Samsonov's decisive shot in the third round of a shootout.

Irving made the decisive shot against Michigan for win No. 900.