Sentence examples for floating it over from inspiring English sources

But neither substitute could convert chances, with Cisse trying to chip Aboud from outside the box but floating it over, and Sow missing a good chance at the near post.

Gascoigne floated it over, a harmless-looking ball with no real pace on it.

Steady and virile, his voice floated it over the fence and landed it in the bleachers.

"It was unfortunate, Stephen saw someone coming out of the [defensive] line and tried to float it over him.

But he successfully bid $75,199 for the 30-ton truck, and now he has to figure out how to float it over to the mainland.

The Tennessee had to be fitted with large temporary pontoons to float it over the sandbar into Mobile Bay, while other ships waited for heavy rains or the spring surge to raise the rivers.

Few strikers at any level could match the nonchalant calm with which the Swindon forward controlled a long ball forward with his instep, then floated it over a helpless Clayton Ince.

Then Tsonga, instead of smashing the ball into Federer's face at the net when he had the opportunity, floats it over his head and out to lose the game.

The head characteristically down, the body strangely bent forward as he rushed with the ball, he encroached to the edge of Motherwell's box before scooping the ball up as if with a mashie niblick to float it over Stevie Woods and into the net.

Emmanuel Eboue was put clear down the right channel, and sent over a first-time cross which Andrey Arshavin met at the far post before floating it back over the goalkeeper but onto the roof of the net.

But he split the uprights — while floating it barely over the crossbar — from 53 yards out as time expired in regulation to tie the score, 24-24, and force overtime.