Sentence examples for striking swing from inspiring English sources

That's a striking swing for such a short time period.

With just six weeks to go until Election Day, younger voters are shunning the two major political parties on a scale not seen since Ross Perot's third-party bid for the presidency in 1992, a striking swing in public opinion that is slicing into Hillary Clinton's thin margin for error.

Stick your support leg beside the ball, strike through with your striking leg swinging very close to your support leg, keep your body over the ball to keep it down, aim for the centre of the ball, and hit it with your laces (the top of your foot).

Martinez threw four fastballs to the first batter, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, touching 98 miles per hour and striking him out, swinging, on a sinking fastball.

The first at-bat alone covers six pages in the book, and ends with Matsuzaka challenging Suzuki with another fastball — this one up and away — and striking him out swinging.

The more space between your supporting leg and striking leg as the swing is made then the less control you have.

As the ball approaches, place your supporting leg, keeping it straight, beside the ball (to the right of it for lefties and to the left of it for righties! ) Your striking leg should now swing very closely beside the supporting leg, allowing you much more control over the strike.

Suddenly the man, who was seen on a street corner crouching down to pull the hatchet out of backpack just moments before, ran at the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said.

In an even more striking image, a woman swings upside down from a man's arm like a monkey on a branch.

It's the striking contrast in the swings between Labour and the Conservatives.

He has delivered a striking number of speeches in swing states which he needs to retain in 2012, for example.