Sentence examples for hurl a ball from inspiring English sources

Using a curved basket, or cesta, to hurl a ball at speeds approaching 150 m.p.h.

Because pitchers can hurl a ball at speeds of nearly 100 miles an hour, shoot at very high shutter speeds of roughly one two-thousandth of a second, taking shutter lag into consideration.

Designed for blind athletes, goalball is a three-a-side game comparable to handball, in which competitors attempt to hurl a ball filled with bells into the opposition goal.

It combines the technology that captures the human gestures at the core of three-dimensional animations like "Avatar" with advanced sensors, biomechanics and orthopedic research on the most powerful and least damaging ways to hurl a ball, swing a bat or simply run like the wind.

You must hurl a ball, with a straight arm please and from a rather exact position, 22 yards, making it land in the same place every time, with sufficient guile, pace, or other sleight of hand to avoid the destructive impulses of the batsman.

Because when Amoros reacted to being felled by Denmark's Jesper Olsen in France's opening group game at Euro 84 by trying to hurl a ball at the winger and then sticking a loaf on him, he copped a suspension that led to Jean-François Domergue's first international start.

The 26-year-old even publicly rebuked Mitchell Starc after the left-armer unnecessarily hurled a ball at the stumps that almost hit a batsman in the Gabba Test.

Zambrano, 29, was suspended for six games last year for a tirade in which he bumped an umpire, hurled a ball into left field and bludgeoned a dugout drink dispenser with a bat.

Perhaps their small stature has been an advantage: when a fast bowler hurls a ball, aimed to hurt, at over 90 miles an hour, a tall batsman is likely to be hit in the face.

The pitch isn't giving him much, his pace is stuck in the low 130s, the Aussies work three singles, then he hurls a ball way down leg side that Watson just has to nudge that slightly to claim runs rather than wides down to the fine leg rope.

Two clear contenders in terms of skill; Kevin Penny's leap of faith against Leigh in the Challenge Cup, which seemed to defy the laws of physics, and Josh Griffin's try after the Salford half-back Rangi Chase passed to himself and then hurled a ball to Griffin behind his back the other.