Sentence examples for ferocious play from inspiring English sources

Anson Dorrance, who recruited Heinrichs to the University of North Carolina and later made her captain of the national team, frequently tells the story of how Heinrichs upset the older players at Carolina with her ferocious play as a freshman.

Jack Lambert's jersey remains a best seller 21 years after he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and his ferocious play — pummeling quarterbacks, pounding running backs — set the standard for a franchise that will try to win its seventh Super Bowl on Sunday the old-school way, with defense.

Derrick Thomas, the Kansas City Chiefs Pro Bowllinebackerer known for his ferocious play on the field and his charity work off it, died unexpectedly yesterday morning in a Miami hospital, 16 days after a car crash had left him paralyzed from the chest down.

In the finale Mr. Thomas elicited steely and ferocious playing from the excited players.

Like the group's previous releases, the new record embraces a heavy, ecstatic take on psychedelic rock, propelled by repetition and the ferocious playing of Oneida's drummer, Kid Millions.

Her following had once included the young Elvis Presley, who loved her ferocious guitar-playing.

The Yale senior Larry Abare, a ferocious safety, played with a cast that covered almost his entire right arm, including his hand.

The ferocious competition playing out on the airwaves and between their surrogates spoke to the widening rift between the more traditional elements of the Republican Party that have evermore vocally come to support Mr. Romney, including many elected officials, and the grass-roots and Tea Party-inspired conservatives Mr. Gingrich is seeking to rally.

These sorts of ferocious passion plays are supposed to be no place for fresh-faced kids and inexperienced innocents.

But the way the National Football League plays is not ferocious or fun enough for Vince McMahon, the freshly minted, self-styled pigskin auteur.

The tempestuous life and times of Jimmy and his hall are dramatised by screenwriter Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach; their story becomes a duel between the truculent, articulate Gralton, played by Barry Ward and a ferocious parish priest, played by Jim Norton – contemptuous of modernity and on a mission to destroy this antichrist of the left.