Sentence examples for fist firmly from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, March 26 , 1927P. 17 Taxi nips heel of pedestrian who plants his right fist firmly on the driver's jaw, and runs.

Holyfield stuck his right fist firmly into his opponent's face, knocking him out for the next five minutes and securing The Ring, WBA, WBC and IBF belts in the process.

That urge to plant your fist firmly in the face of your offender at the slightest provocation.

Have someone rub your back or press their hand or fist firmly into the painful kidney.

Followed by Clarke, who serves lashings of electro low ends with plenty of stomp, we finish the session fists firmly clenched.

In a brief and faint replay of his earlier self, he brought his fist down firmly on the small round table that stood between us.

Sort of with a softly pounding fist: 'I firmly believe... this team... is special.. and I'm proud... to be associated... with such a bunch of guys.' Drum it out.

He has insight and empathy and knows how to fly the Tardis, and he also made a decent fist of ruling "firmly but wisely" in 12th-century Constantinople (a comic strip or audio play of this off-screen storyline, please).

The handle of a Penobscot crooked knife, carved in wood to represent a delicate but firmly clenched fist that seems raised in warning, is as full of import as a small articulated Tlingit transformation puppet, a skeleton made of bone, sinew and abalone-shell inlay whose rib cage opens to reveal a snarling face.

An accessible history of Iraq that renders its horrors without ignoring what outsiders have done, or failed to do, that fastened Saddam Hussein's fists all the more firmly to the levers of power.

And the defendant, Ronald Short, sat through it all in perfect stillness, his eyes clamped shut and his chin resting firmly on his fist.