Sentence examples for deceptive pace from inspiring English sources

The Leinster centre makes classic outside breaks, confounding defenders with a languid running style that masks his deceptive pace.

By then, "Long John" was in his prime, powerfully combative both in the air and on the ground, crisp and clean in his work on the ball, and with a long, loping stride which enabled him to eat up the yards with deceptive pace.

North is, like Jonah Lomu, big for a wing, but his deceptive running and pace make him even more dangerous.

The Quins full-back has had a wonderful season but he badly underestimated his rival's pace and deceptive power.

There's some brazen playing to enjoy – the low brass in March to the Scaffold sound like a foghorn – but the impression of a lack of refinement is deceptive: the balance and pace are always tautly in check.

"He has got good pace, is very deceptive in the air and he is a proven goalscorer".

Once in the first half he had tricked Chelsea defender Gary Cahill with a deceptive body swerve and change of pace as the Peruvian came in from the left flank.

In "Felicia's Journey," Trevor's novel about a serial killer, atrocity finally arrives, terrifyingly, in the same tone and at the same pace as the whole deceptive buildup.

Deceptive lulls in the storm and the slow pace of weather reports contributed to the storm's destructiveness.

His run, though, is deceptive for he has a strong action that generates easy pace as both Pakistan openers, Mohammad Hafeez and Shan Masood, had discovered to their cost.

All along, though, the groundsman has insisted that although there would be pace and carry, there would be little lateral movement; that it might prove deceptive.