Sentence examples for smooth play from inspiring English sources

But facing Paulino, a 1-2 off-speed pitch and a smooth play by Castro spared Halladay another bad memory.

Lowrie took over at shortstop after Julio Lugo injured his calf, and his smooth play has essentially made the $36 million Lugo expendable.

But Henry is a different kind of star, known for smooth play on the field, not glitz and glamour off it.

Putting up the queen in the diagramed position would not have helped the defense, but a smooth play of the four would have left South in a quandary: whether to call for the jack.

3.00am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, top of the 8th Matt Adams hits a ground ball that Pedroia makes a smooth play on, he makes these look easy.

Online play in particular is one area where the PS2 was found to be lacking and Sony has rectified this - and more - with the PlayStation 3. The console has built-in wireless internet access and gigabit ethernet connection for fast downloads and smooth play.

Temperatures are warm and humidity rises, making it a challenge to maintain a smooth playing surface.

"I love its drama," he wrote, "its smooth playing skills, its carelessly laid rhythms, and the added flavour of contrasting styles.

The breadth of the bridge, which was arched to give the bow separate access to each string, made forceful playing impossible, and the supine position of the bow hand, palm uppermost, encouraged a smooth playing style.

Above the game-operations infrastructure, crushed stone was placed to provide a smooth playing surface, then a shock pad or "e-layer". The latter is a blend of crumb rubber and pea gravel with a polyurethane binder mixed together with a heavy paste and then leveled over the entire field.

It definitely looked butter smooth playing Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, which was itself a star of at least 500 CES demos this year.