Sentence examples for sort of backhand from inspiring English sources

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"This is a sort of backhand retaliation by judicial authorities in Beijing to warn the firms that employ these lawyers that there might be consequences to their business if they don't keep their distance".

"On the one hand we have this sort of backhand nod to the incredible commercial activity generated by the illegal marketplace at Nimbin and then on the other hand, we've got this arbitrary pounding on the people who are servicing that marketplace".

"On the one hand we have this sort of backhand nod to the incredible commercial activity generated by the illegal market place at Nimbin and then on the other hand, we've got this arbitrary pounding on the people who are servicing that marketplace".

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A compact, muscular baseliner with a decent serve, a good backhand and a lot of speed around the court, she is the sort of player who makes opponents go to their limit when she is near her best.

I sort of agree.

He accused them of poor messaging, like their tennis game has a weak backhand.

She always sits on the right, he is always on the left, the bass end, sort of like a forehand and backhand in tennis doubles.

Djokovic's wizardry in extension — particularly with his open-stance, two-handed backhand — applies a different sort of point-in-point-out pressure from other defensive masters of the modern game like Rafael Nadal.

On the warmest day of the tournament, Nadal's forehand was particularly lively and devastating, breaking down Wawrinka's one-handed backhand with the same sort of ruthless regularity that it has broken down Federer's one-hander.

Boom-Boom Gasquet thuds a couple of backhand winners.

His backhand was what we called a concluder, the sort of shot people will still be talking about a hundred years later".

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