Sentence examples for defend straight from inspiring English sources

Dr. Schilling's church was founded in 1975 to defend "straight chiropractors" like himself, who regard Western medicine as paganism or Satanism.

And they had already squandered one chance by committing a foul when Coach Lawrence Frank wanted them to defend straight up.

Chris Rogers managed it for a while until England cut off his lifeline by bowling continuously round the wicket to all left-handers and Adam Voges played as well as anyone in the second innings at Trent Bridge, defending straight and letting the ball go well.

Hull KR head coach Craig Sandercock told BBC Radio Humberside: "We weren't good enough early on and it's always tough to try and defend seven straight penalties.

Receiving a ball on middle and leg stump, he tried to defend it straight back down the pitch, rather than the conventional stroke to the leg side, and managed to edge the ball past the slips for four.

"Catchit!" comes the cry as Trott makes a hash of defending a straight ball from Steyn.

In 1973, at 14, Balukas successfully defended her straight pool U.S. Open title, defeating runner-up Donna Ries, a psychologist from Kansas City, Missouri, with a final score of 75 72 in 42 innings and a high of 26, earning her a $2,000 purse.

Non-profit (or charitable) status is hard to defend with a straight face if fees are outrageously out of line.

You can almost picture the curators, Jean-Louis Cohen and brainstormingl, brainstorming to come up with the most unlikely, counterintuitive thesis about Le Corbusier they could — and then setting out to defend it with straight faces, deep scholarship and a good deal of museological firepower.

Mr. Malphurs defended his straight-man approach in a footnote.

Most of the turnovers came in the halfcourt with Butler defending in straight-up man-to-man.