Sentence examples for larrup from inspiring English sources

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larrup

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Backchat or rudeness

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The ball is pinged into the feet of Adebayor, whose lay-off to Eboue is sublime and leaves the midfielder only needing to larrup it past Myhill for 1-0.

75th over: England 217-8 (Flintoff 24 Anderson 0) Flintoff has licence to larrup.

10.28am GMT 38th over: Australia 226-2 (Finch 116, Clarke 34) Target 270 With Stokes back on, Clarke arranges three off the first ball, and then Finch steps down to the second, making room to larrup a drive over mid-off.

But hey, count the trophies.. Defensive lockdown is in vogue, yet there were some good old‑fashioned belters nevertheless: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's scissor flick against France, Marco Reus's larrup versus Greece, and Andy Carroll's paean to creative ultraviolence against Sweden.

He could larrup the ball in, arrow a daisy-cutter a few centimetres inside the far post (the winner against Denmark in the 1998 World Cup quarter-final is the best example, but there were so many), coax a free-kick high or low, left or right, and also pass the ball in (my colleague Mike Adamson pointed out how underrated the precision of his finish against England in 2002 remains).

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Kallis drops short next ball and Kieswetter takes a step forward and larrups it over long on, flat for six.

Updated at 12.32pm GMT 12.28pm GMT 58th over: Australia 303-5 declared (Smith 36, Haddin 3) All the fielders are on the boundary, though that doesn't preclude Smith larruping Philander wide of Morkel at long off for four.

Langeveldt b Bracken 46th over: South Africa 290-9 (Hall 3 Ntini 5) Ntini is the last man in then, and he larrups a four straight through long-off, a kind of deiant flick of the fingers from a beaten man.

He takes a stride into the box, and larrups a low shot into the bottom left!

I get a lump in my throat when I see old people struggling," he said early in 2000, not long before larruping another ultraviolent goal against Manchester United to celebrate the belated re-release of A Clockwork Orange two days later.

Bezus latches onto a ball on the edge of the box and larrups a shot just wide of Lloris's post.

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