Sentence examples for off matches from inspiring English sources

Sometimes they cannot kill off matches.

"Brazil haven't played well, but they've finished off matches when they have had to," he said.

Yet he also clings to boyish things and, on an afternoon off, matches his fledgling golf skills against those of a cocky teenager.

Holes had been drilled into pipes, sulfur had been scraped off matches, nails were ready to be used as shrapnel, and wires were used to fashion an ignition device, according to a law enforcement official.

This was Huddersfield's sixth defeat in seven play-off matches in the last three seasons.

Play-off matches have traditionally been forgettable affairs, a prize wanted by no one.

The 17-year-old prodigy played a number of evening kick-off matches, in possible violation of employment law.

But there will be a lot of nervous people - players, managers and fans - in the play-off matches.

Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, has become increasingly keen on establishing a franchise in London, having been impressed by the success of the one-off matches staged there.

"I felt with the squad we had assembled in the summer that we would be difficult to beat in one-off matches.

The sail-off matches for fifth to eighth - including the Lucy Macgregor-skippered British team, who were due on the water at midday.