Sentence examples for deflect with from inspiring English sources

Drew tended to deflect with brusque, direct humor.

Normally, I'd deflect with a shrug and a sigh.

In other words, the suffering that an audience expects theatre to deflect with laughter, rather than to embrace.

Once the audience managed to get in a few Q's to Lott's A's, there was no serious subject he could not deflect with a homespun crack.

For me, I was frankly hideous and weird at school, but I never got picked on because I could deflect with humour.

Photographers, reverently bending one knee, snapped him in the act of making a spectacular dive across the goal mouth to deflect with his fingers a low, lightning-like shot, and the stadium roars in approval as he remains for a moment or two lying full-length where he fell, his goal still intact..

And when asked, he deflects with considerable skill.

Garret Anderson followed with a comebacker that Pettitte deflected with his bare hand.

It is a question he deflects with some trademark, dry Aussie wit.

Bongino worked for Presidents George W. Bush and Obama, and said that fence jumpers are regular incursions, deflected with ease.

It contains a flexible-walled evacuated capsule, the wall of which deflects with changes in atmospheric pressure.