Sentence examples for wing half from inspiring English sources

When Baxter, a wing half, took control of a match, he dictated its entire shape.

In the early stages of an international career that would bring him 34 caps between 1961 and 1967, Dave Mackay, another great Scottish wing half, counselled him to train hard and not to pursue the wild lifestyle.

While Jimmy Hill's football career recedes into a monochrome era of Woodbines and reinforced toecaps – he was a wing half, which tells you everything you need to know – his later role as a TV football pundit will be more readily recalled.

Significant signings were wing half Willie Stevenson from Rangers in 1962 and left winger Peter Thompson from Preston in 1963.

Fellow wing half Roy Warhurst injured a thigh in the sixth round at Arsenal and played no further part in the season.

As McNichol grew older, his playing position became more defensive, as he became first a wing half, then a full back.

A chicken wing, half-chomped, cools in a plastic basket.

But two long-range frees by wing half-back Darragh O'Hanlon meant the sides finished level on 1-12 to 2-9.

Four times each week, he eats dinner at his favorite restaurant, Jack Stack Barbecue, where they prepare his order on sight (fire-skewered wings, half pint of baked beans and half pint of salad), no words required.

Through the gusty blackness, one's lantern would illumine the stickily glistening furrows of the bark and two or three large moths upon it imbibing the sweets, their nervous wings half open, butterfly fashion, the lower ones exhibiting their incredible crimson silk from beneath the lichen-gray primaries.

They may add, for emphasis, that More was not in the same class as a wing-half.