Sentence examples for glancing strike from inspiring English sources

Gerrard had a long range shot pushed wide by keeper Asmir Begovic, while Agger's glancing strike from a dinked Suso cross clipped the outside of the post.

While Patron doesn't at first glance strike you as the kind of guy who wants to be known as "the boss", he has an edge to him.

While Patron doesn't at first glance strike you as the kind of guy who wants to be known as "the boss", he has an edge to him.

Woolford chested down Steve Morison's cross and volleyed in to pull one back for the visitors, before Corr almost added another for the Shrimpers when his glancing header struck the post.

The similarities between Sweden and Austria are, at first glance, striking.

Finally he gets off strike, glancing a ball under his feet, somehow or other.

The target is so big that all he can do is strike glancing blows that don't mean much.

As are Rudnick's other screenplays, "Marci X" is spiced with lightly barbed topical jokes and celebrity putdowns that strike glancing blows without breaking the skin.

A glancing blow could strike your leg, or send the wood flying off like a dangerous projectile.

Sunderland wanted a penalty when John O'Shea's glanced header struck the arm of Benteke but the referee waved away their appeals.

But Mr. Schiff's repertory has broadened over the years -- slowly, to be sure, because he tends to immerse himself in a composer's music rather than strike a glancing blow.