Sentence examples for deflect aside from inspiring English sources

There were fine touches to deflect aside efforts from Ángel Di María, and even a willingness to charge from his box to nod away through-balls squeezed beyond Arsenal's backline.

Williams tried to beat Richter with a wrist shot, but Richter somehow deflected it aside with the heel of his glove to prevent a Flyers goal.

(I want to conclude with an aside to deflect a criticism that I'm certain some will level against me and The Clergy Letter Project.

Put aside the unseemliness of a billionaire politician trying to deflect criticism by collecting checks for an unimpeachable cause.

Lundqvist turned aside several deflected pucks.

Aside from more money for research into NEOs and ways to deflect them, the report points to two approaches to achieving Congress's detection goal.

To deflect such perceptions, Mr. Gore included in his glossy, 191-page plan a pledge to set aside $300 billion as a hedge against overly optimistic fiscal projections.

Aside from their ingenious methodology, what makes these amuse-bouches so delectable are the moral dilemmas Block throws up to deflect his philosophical anti­hero from a given task.

And truly small NEOs could be "nudged aside" using a "gravity tractor" — "a plasma-powered craft," Friend writes, "that would hover near the NEO and use its own gravity to deflect the target".

It would deflect criticism.

Not everyone can deflect "Lost" spoilers.