Sentence examples for serving to avoid from inspiring English sources

But Williams served devastatingly well when she needed to, delivering 20 aces altogether, including an audacious second-serve ace at 15-40 when she was serving to avoid being taken to a second tie-breaker.

Serving to avoid the dreaded bagel (there had not been one in the opening set of a championship final here since 1953), Murray struggled to loosen himself from his torpor, finally rousing the crowd with a magnificent crosscourt forehand that left his opponent stranded at the net.

The 6-4, 7-5 victory was interrupted by rain for two and a half hours, and while neither combatant could be blamed for the capriciousness of the elements, Bartoli attracted a deal of ire for the speed at which she demanded to stop play at a crucial juncture in the first set – 4-5 to Bartoli, 40-40 and with Stephens serving to avoid going behind.

2. Top your salads with a colorful array of petals (make sure to wash and rinse off the pollen before serving, to avoid heartburn!).

However, it might also be a consequence of species-specific queen-bouquets serving to avoid hybridization.

TLS is a potentially mutagenic process due to the low fidelity of TLS polymerases with lesions in many cases, while serving to avoid the permanent cell cycle arrest and cell death.

It's this work, more than anything, that attacks on "PC culture" seem to serve to avoid.

Many are appropriate, but many serve to avoid thinking about a hard case, because thinking takes time.

Surprisingly few newly engaged couples seem to have these frank discussions, some of which can serve to avoid painful misunderstandings later on.

It was left to Tsonga's serve to avoid the oeuf – then Jamie Murray stepped up to plunge the final dagger into French hearts.

One of the main justifications for the use of the death penalty, especially in the South, was that it served to avoid lynching.