Sentence examples for off the wrist from inspiring English sources

5.47pm BST 115th over: Sri Lanka 396-5 (Mathews 70, Jayawardene 5) Plunkett bowls, and Jayawardene rather fluffs his shot, the ball looping off the wrist, over first slip and away for four.

There's nothing quite like having a £1,000 accessory dangling off the wrist to give a girl some cred.

Then in the second, again with the bases loaded, Peralta fielded a ball that had deflected off the wrist of pitcher Doug Fister and beat Robinson Cano with the throw at first.

However, it is clear that anything towering off the wrist at 17 millimeters in height, as some recent introductions have done, lies at the chunky end of the spectrum.

But of late, nothing has seemed to seize attention in the tonier parts of town as much as thieves whose stock in trade is to grapple a fancy watch or item of jewelry off the wrist of someone wealthy enough to afford the ostentation.

It's pretty beastly in size, for starters - it sits considerably high off the wrist.

It's low, but it's fairly straightforward, yet the ball plops off the wrists and away.

The fact that you have to pass the controller (even if you have more than one) is a bit disappointing; it's totally fine that the game only supports one player at a time, but having to take off the wrist-strap and pass things around gets tiresome.

They're brushed off with a flick of the wrist like Christine O'Donnell in The New York Times newsroom.

The prison camps: Survivors' testimony Shin Dong-hyuk "I thought my whole hand was going to be cut off at the wrist, so I felt thankful and grateful that only my finger was cut off".

Her head wounds have since healed but her right hand was torn off at the wrist.