Sentence examples for whiff on from inspiring English sources

If you whiff on a first-round pick, you better find a new one (like Del Rio), finish Year 4 strong (like Fisher) or have a ring on your finger (Billick) to avoid getting fired before Year 5.

He wasn't about to whiff on this hire.

There's a little whiff on Page 182 that definitely deserves an after-the-fact look.

This included Cerys Matthews singing a rousing version of Ring of Fire and Take a Whiff on Me.

Bailey gets Pence to whiff on fourth pitch of the at-bat and that's that for the Reds.

Hughes painted the corner with a fastball to Chavez, threw a 93 mile an hour fastball past Kouzmanoff and got Gross to whiff on a loopy, 78 m.p.h.

Rodriguez whiffed on three pitches, missing a high and pedestrian 86-mile-an-hour fastball.

Brady's receivers struggled to get open, and his offensive line whiffed on far too many blocks.

Jeter whiffed on five pitches, and although the Yankees hadn't scored, they had pushed Mecir -- accustomed to throwing about 20 pitches per outing -- to expend 15 pitches.

Everything is skew-whiff, on-the-turn, unstable in Get Santa!, Anthony Neilson's spicy seasonal play, where curtain up means the unravelling of a pink satin bow in front of the stage.

The first batter, Darnell McDonald, whiffed on one, and with two out Pettitte flung another by Martinez.