Sentence examples for a quick movement from inspiring English sources

"A quick movement pushed me out the door," he recalled.

An artist pulls from so many things, everyday things: someone's expression, a quick movement, a dramatic shadow.

His first touch of the ball, a quick movement with his left foot, sent him past a Panamanian defender, who seemed momentarily rooted as Pulisic dashed by.

During my first trip to Madrid, as I waited on Alcala Street for a friend to take me to dinner, I caught a quick movement from the corner of my eye.

"A lot of times, these guys, when going from a backhand and sprinting to a forehand, it's such a quick movement that they might not even have a chance to switch grips," said Brad Gilbert, a former top-10 player turned coach and commentator.

With a barely discernable twinkle in his eyes, Steinbrenner said, with mock anger, "I will not sign these!" He thrust them back at my son and then, with a quick movement of his hand, swiped my son's Yankee cap off his head and said, "I will sign this!" and promptly scrawled his name under the bill of the cap, slapped the cap back on my startled son's head and hurried off.

In one drill, he stood on a pillow and made a particular quick movement, which trained his muscles to keep him steady.

With a very quick movement, snap together the two halves of the egg.

"The male jumps on top of [the female's] mantle, away from her arms," says Ross. "It's an amazingly quick movement, in case she's in a bad mood or something.

This would be analogous to the situation in jumping spiders, where it has been proposed that a hydrostatic skeleton within a rigid exoskeleton allows application of a large amount of force to a small deformation, resulting in a forceful and quick movement [ 71].

With a smooth but quick movement at the right hip, place the right leg over the left thigh so that the outer edge of the right foot is locked into the left groin.