Sentence examples for of a served from inspiring English sources

Named after the German physicist and chemist H.G. Magnus, who first (1853) experimentally investigated the effect, it is responsible for the "curve" of a served tennis ball or a driven golf ball and affects the trajectory of a spinning artillery shell.

That one goes astray though, and Baghdatis wraps things up with a bullet of a serve.

My brother was more of a serving person, a very compassionate man".

Davenport hit a crosscourt forehand return of a serve out on the first match point.

The father of a serving soldier, in 2003 Hughes enthusiastically supported the Iraq war.

"She's got a freaking bomb of a serve.

It was a contract killing arranged with the help of a serving police officer," he said.

Another cardinal rule, of a serving chief refraining from publicly condemning his predecessors, too was violated.