Sentence examples for gentle off from inspiring English sources

Ferocious on the field, Thomas was gentle off it.

First, while Di Giulio is polite and gentle off the field, he's also a fierce competitor.

He was smart, charming, as kind and gentle off the field as he had been aggressive and ruthless on it.

3.50pm GMT 8th over: India 55-1 (Rohit 33 Kohli 19) Target 139 Sohag's gentle off breaks coming back to get massaged around the pitch then.

"So I told my players, 'You need to play like a wild dog and chase the other team up a tree.' Be gentle off the field, but wild on it".

Wayne Gretzky, deceptively gentle off and on the ice, once introduced himself to a stranger who was hanging around the Edmonton Oilers' training room in the dark of midseason, thus satisfying his curiosity.

That is not a ringing endorsement so much as a gentle, off-key clunk, but it will have to do.

Then Cook succumbed for one – lbw yet again to a gentle off-break from Sachithra Senanayake – in the first over of England's reply.

"Girls" ended on Sunday night with the sounds of a baby suckling, as his mother warbled Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" in a gentle, off-key voice.

There were drizzle and damp, seam and swing, some straight and steady bowling, the ball moving just a touch off the green grass strip and a little gentle off-spin from Moeen Ali.

Yet again he was mesmerised by a gentle off-break – Sri Lanka's captain, Angelo Mathews, no longer gives Cook the luxury of any pace bowling at the start of the innings.