Sentence examples for to only graze from inspiring English sources

The.22 bullet was supposed to only graze Burden.

But what is most clear is that while Chelyabinsk did not exactly dodge a bullet on Feb. 15, the city was fortunate to be only grazed by it.

Instead of parrying it comfortably or actually trying to catch it, Kawashima could only graze the ball with the outside of his left hand.

The teenage striker, who has just signed a new contract, failed to make proper contact with his head and could only graze the base of the post from six yards.

And although between them they hold a fair amount of material, they only graze the surface of their huge subject.

But unlike that revisiting of Exile, the Stones only graze Sticky Fingers, playing just three songs and none of the swampier material.

No wonder Patrick Fitzgerald's "Gibraltar" — starring himself and Cara Seymour, now at the Irish Repertory Theater — is subtitled "An Adaptation After James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' " Any stage version can only graze the book's infinite layers.

The French attacker Gaëtane Thiney provided the opening score, dribbling forward essentially uncontested in the 12th minute and ripping a shot that Hope Solo dived for but could only graze.

He also asks why six miles of the pipeline would run through Jersey City but only graze Manhattan, given that New York City has greater fuel needs and would be the main beneficiary.

But the goal of the night was scored by a Dutchman who scores them rarely: the defender and captain Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who was left free to shoot from about 40 yards in the 18th minute and responded with a beautiful left-footed strike that goalkeeper Fernando Muslera could only graze with his fingertips before it glanced off the post and into the upper right corner of the goal.

Australia, when they worked their own openings, could only graze chins rather than deliver knockout punches.