Sentence examples for an overhead throw from inspiring English sources

I stop and turn, boxes held high for an overhead throw.

In one play (I can still see it) in the 1964 World Series, he scampered over and plucked up a hard-hit ball struck by Joe Pepitone that had nailed him on the hip and caromed halfway to third base; Gibson leaped and turned one hundred and eighty degrees in midair and made an overhead throw to first — a basketball one-handed fall-away jumper — that nipped Pepitone at the bag.

The announcer made the point that he was taking an "overhead free throw".

67 Regarding upper-body power, medicine ball tests (ie, overhead throw; figure 4) seem to be useful for tennis players, as they show high external validity, because they involve the coordination of body segments (ie, kinetic chain) and allow generation, summation, transfer and regulation of forces from the lower body to the upper body, which is similar to tennis strokes.

For a bounce pass (bounced to you), try to catch it at you chest, for an overhead pass (thrown over the head), try to catch it up above your head, for a chest pass (straight towards you), try to catch it at your chest.

Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) of the humeral capitellum is a critical elbow injury in adolescent overhead throwing athletes.

Andrews et al. reported high prevalence of SLAP lesions among overhead throwing athletes (baseball pitchers) suggesting a chronic injury [17] (Fig. 7).

Subjects completed a questionnaire on the amount and duration of overhead throwing performed during the ages 8 through 16 years.All of the subjects had greater external rotation at 0 degrees and 90 degrees of abduction, decreased internal rotation at 90 degrees of abduction, and greater retroversion of the humerus in their dominant compared with nondominant shoulders.

Both Dr. Andrews and Dr. Jobe have advocated a minimum of three to four months a year as time away from baseball and other overhead throwing sports.

Scapular positioning is hypothesized to bear a direct relationship with muscle performance in basketball players who do overhead throwing.

Two helicopters hovered overhead, throwing down cones of light.