Sentence examples for landing short from inspiring English sources

Sizing Europe made pretty heavy weather of landing short odds on the same card, but that was pardonable in the conditions.

Though Murray produced plenty of quality, even spectacular, shots, he also missed too many routine ones and failed to take consistent advantage of Nadal's two-handed backhand landing short in the court.

She does not have the length to take full advantage of Colonial's two par-5 holes, and on the longer par 4's, Sorenstam risks landing short of the greens on her approach shots.

Though the straight left still looked most likely to win the fight for Manny, he was now also landing short, stunning rights that jounced Márquez's head and further reddened his battered face.

Known as the Scholar — both for her master's degrees and her strategic boxing style — Ms. Lamonakis has handled many larger, stronger and younger opponents by ducking jabs and working her way inside their punching zones, and then landing short body punches.

But, after Root takes a single from his first ball and Moeen has a look at two and three, four is so filthy it showed its knickers out of the hand, landing short and wide, for which it was duly carted to the boundary.

Suddenly, his sliced backhands were landing shorter and his returns lost their zip.

But Jones never looked in sync, landing shorter with each jump as the breezy night wore on.

His balls are landing shorter in the court than he would probably like, but Ferrer's height and low strike zone makes him ill-equipped to exploit them like taller players such as Lukas Rosol and Daniel Brands have been able to against Nadal.

Oleg Batanov, reported a fire in the helicopter's right engine moments before crash-landing short of the base's airfield.

Something that would force us to land short and reconsider.