Sentence examples for swivelling from inspiring English sources

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swivelling

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Present participle of swivel

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Two years on from that first visit, I recall a gazelle-like, beautiful human being floating about in the covers, a man with the balance and grace of a ballet dancer – he was an as yet unknown David Gower, still a season away from swivelling pulling his first ball in Test cricket for four.

It had the chutzpah of Charlie Adam's 65-yard missile against Chelsea, the touch and technique of Wayne Rooney's swivelling volley against Aston Villa and the did-that-actually-just-happen quality of Jermain Defoe's winner for Sunderland against Newcastle United, and above all it was a gloriously subtle goal, instinct combining with a clear thought-process to devastating effect.

Murray retrieved and was lobbed but, swivelling on the retreat near the baseline, conjured up a dazzling crosscourt winner that alerted the crowd to the possibility of something special.

There were multiple defenders between him and the goal when he took a pass from Kwadwo Asamoah some 20 yards out, before swivelling to hammer the ball past Daniele Padelli.

No one rushes and there are cute slings and swivelling loaders to take the heavy lifting out of the work.

Alan Cormack was talking to a harmless, bespectacled reporter from a struggling red top; Cormack threw back his head to laugh, swivelling his eyes as he brought his chin down to see who else he should be bullying.

SUCH is the relentlessness of democracy in America that even before this week's votes were counted, Republican heads were swivelling towards the next big question.

These machine vises are portable but may be clamped to the machine table when in use; means may also be provided for swivelling the active part of the vise so that the workpiece can be held in a variety of positions relative to the base.

Again we owned those swivelling heads in search of confirmation that indeed this was a moment of sports history.

Aguero was unusually slow to make an impact, allowing just 50 seconds to pass before swivelling in the box and planting his 20th goal of the season past Simon Eastwood, on at half time for Paul Robinson.

And now Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen, which began on BBC1 last night, had a bearded Nigel Slater and Countryfile's Adam Henson swivelling their gun turret towards Channel 4's River Cottage franchise.

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