Sentence examples for hit lightly from inspiring English sources

The victims were usually children, often playing sports: a 6-year-old who died when a baseball struck him in the chest; a 14-year-old lacrosse player who died when a ball hit him in the chest; a 14-year-old who died in a karate match when he was hit lightly in the chest.

Bunting is when the ball is hit lightly into the infield so that the pitcher or infield players must run in to pick it up, giving a player time to advance on base.

Crab cakes were another hit: lightly packed and presented with a tasty cilantro flavored corn relish and a pool of Russian dressing.

His body language says he's going to cream them, really boss them around, but at the last instant he hesitates, hitting lightly or leaving a blank.

But a few drummers — including Jean-Alain Hohy, who played an afternoon set with the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, and Glenn Kotche, who played with Wilco — were playing up, hitting lightly and finding a greater range of dynamics, making their rhythms bubble.

The first is our 4,850 square miles of sprawl, which means that even an inaccurately fired ICBM stands a good chance of taking out millions of people instead of hitting lightly populated desert or mountains.

His father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said last month that he had "hit her lightly".

"Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour," Mr. Tsarnaev said.

That also means it will be hit relatively lightly by the new Basel 3 capital rules.BNP Paribas has bought quite a few retail banks since 1999.

But Breakingviews argues that while the firm seems to have been hit only lightly, it's still vulnerable to prolonged troubles in the debt market.

His father, Anzor, said in an interview on Friday in the Russian republic of Dagestan, where he lives, that Tamerlan had an argument with a girlfriend and that he "hit her lightly".