Sentence examples for knock a ball from inspiring English sources

Early Mexican interception though and Gimenez springs the offside trap easily to knock a ball back across the US goal.

Her father would watch her knock a ball against a wall for hours with both feet until she was just as good with her left as her right.

He has an ability to use complex tools, and yet his instrument of choice is often a long-handled stick designed to knock a ball into a hole (Callaway FT Hybrids, World of Golf, 147 East 47th Street; $179.95-$179.95-$199.95

The rest of us ordinary hackers might occasionally knock a ball that far on a steep downward slope, with a gale behind, when the fairway's been sun-baked to concrete.

I can't be bothered to knock a ball round just for the fun of it.' Goldfinger accepts the challenge and suggests that they play for $10,000 - an amount that 'Bond could not afford to lose'.

Visually, "The Legend of Bagger Vance" consists mainly of lush vistas of fairways, bunkers and greens on which nice-looking people amble about in crisp Depression-era knee pants, sweaters and cloche hats, swapping spiritual sports talk and pausing to knock a ball or two around the grass.

The reserve tackle Lance Legree knocked a ball loose and Washington recovered.

I taught myself how to play, knocking a ball about, up against a wall.

There are also a number of other forfeits paid into the pool for such errors as pocketing one's own ball or knocking a ball off the table.

As they played at Ayresome Park, the young Brian Clough knocked a ball around the steelworks pitches behind the family home.

The very next night, Albert Pujols knocked a ball into the left-field corner that got away from Cespedes.