Sentence examples for assertive play from inspiring English sources

After his shot, Allen collected his sixth foul, and Pierce began his assertive play.

He saves both set points with some assertive play to take it to deuce.

Then some assertive play from Evans ends with an easy winner at the net played… into the net.

"It's the only thing I know how to do," he said of his assertive play last season.

Kerber made the semifinals at Wimbledon last year but is more of a counter-puncher, which will leave her vulnerable to Mattek-Sands's more assertive play.

Hughes, who had been wrapped in mothballs a week ago, started at shooting guard and set the tone with his assertive play at both ends of the court.

After saving a break point at 5-5 in the second set with a big serve and an inside-out forehand, Stephens continued that assertive play, winning eight of the last nine games and closing out the third set in 26 minutes.

Of course, Errani probably heard that, because she gets out to 30-15 here with some smart play, pushing Serena around the baseline, and then it's 40-15 with a decent serve and the game, a hold, with more relatively assertive play.

The first violin, typically, seems most keen to get out of this and into more linear, self-assertive playing, but the viola is the one to take the lead into lyricism, against the leader's explosive objections.

Charlton Heston, a newcomer then to the Paramount stable, and Kirk Douglas, the lead in Wilder's previous film, were both considered too obviously confident and assertive to play the mysterious Sefton.

The escarole wilted while the clams steamed open, and the spicy linguiça and mildly assertive greens played a perfect counterpoint to each other.