Sentence examples for corner meaning from inspiring English sources
Asomugha is a "press" corner, meaning he lines up right on top of receivers like a basketball player on defense and dares them to get past him, a technique that used to be called bump and run when a corner was permitted to be far more physical with a receiver until the ball was thrown.
United were all over the place positionally for the second goal after clearing Chelsea's initial corner, meaning Eto'o was completely unmarked in the middle of the goal.
Mbokani's brilliant back-heeled finish arrived after failing to clear a corner, meaning the Reds have conceded eight goals from corners this season - a league high.
Captain Daly converted coolly from the spot, slotting it high into the right-hand corner, meaning United ended the first half with a 3-2 advantage advantage.
XM doesn't say why the channel is going away, but it sorta stinks because summer is right around the corner, meaning that your local classic rock station will ignore everything but "Stairway" for months on end.
Hummels was left unmarked to head in the simplest of goals from a corner, meaning the past three goals Liverpool have conceded in the Europa League have been from set-pieces.
(And Williams is reliable only from the corners — meaning even his one dimension is one-dimensional).
As described in the Dixon-Woods et al. framework [ 9], when staff were involved in managing risks, they would often "cut corners," meaning not follow the standardized procedures, and then justify the reasons for such noncompliance.
"What's that number in the upper right hand corner?" asks Morse, meaning the ticking figure on the projection screen that at the moment says 372,213.
Its present name comes from the surrounding plain of Ayacucho (a Quechua word meaning "corner of the dead"), where revolutionaries defeated royalist forces in 1824 and secured Peru's independence from Spain.
One of the children in the class, alias "Joâo" (Fig. 2, shown in a striped shirt in the upper left-hand corner), is Lusoburguês, meaning a Luxembourg-born and educated child with a so-called hybrid identity, being culturally, linguistically and nationality-wise both Portuguese and Luxembourgish.
