Sentence examples for dribble off from inspiring English sources

The phrase "dribble off" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in sports, particularly in basketball, to describe the action of a player moving the ball with short bounces, typically with their hand, in a controlled manner. Example: The point guard expertly dribbled off the defender and drove towards the basket for an easy layup.

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Topics come and go unpredictably; arguments sometimes dribble off without resolution.

Decadent young parasites are probably carving artful S-turns in windblown dribble off Odessa as we speak.

He tapped in his 19th goal after Carolina goaltender Arturs Irbe allowed the initial shot by Dan McGillis to dribble off his pads.

Anything but a perfectly struck shot will roll off the right side of the green or continue through the back where it might dribble off the shaved edges and roll down into the pine straw.

I would have gone back to being a normal geeky, alienated adolescent and this story could end right here or dribble off into a standard coming-of-age story, culminating, within a couple of decades, in the coffin of "maturity".

Dribble off in the other direction at speed.

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The ball dribbled off Valentin's glove and toward the Braves' dugout for an error.

The loose ball dribbled off the instep of his left foot and into the empty net.

I tried to almost thin it, it lands just on the green and dribbles off and it leaves me a nightmare chip shot.

IN a cramped studio with walls draped by cables, the words dribbled off the announcer's tongue in a serene classical music burble.

And of Mr Pastry, with his twinkling eye, spatters of pie-custard dribbling off the brim of his boater and his horrid little grey moustache.

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