How To Use Carom In A Sentence
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As Appling reached down for the ball, it took a bad hop and caromed off his shoulder.
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The ball crashed off the center field wall before caroming back onto the outfield grass.
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He checks the foul lines to see which way bunts will roll, then it's out to center to fire balls off the wall to see how they will carom.
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She hurled it at the ant, and the stone caromed off the carapace.
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I wonder how many of those 15 triples were cannon-shot line drives which caromed off the Green Monster at unpredictable angles.
Fiction and the empirical turn
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More difficult are cushion caroms and balkline, in which restrictions are imposed by lines drawn on the table.
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The ball hit the base runner and caromed into the hands of the second baseman who threw the batter/runner out.
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The puck caromed off another spectator before hitting Cecil, whose seat was more than 100 feet behind the glass.
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The car caromed off several lampposts
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Smith dove to his left and as the ball caromed into the air, he reached high, grabbed it barehanded and threw Burroughs out at first.
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We saw one ball bounce off it during a pitcher's warm-up, and it caromed past the mound almost to the first baseman's position!
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In the bottom of the fifth inning, Manny Ramirez hit a shot down the third base line that caromed off the stands and struck Gerry Davis, the left field line umpire.
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The ball, however, made contact with umpire Paul Runge, who was positioned on the infield side, and it caromed into short left field behind the shortstop.
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Its fairways often are bordered by gentle slopes that carom the ball back toward the fairway.
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Eli took me under his wing and showed me a lot of basic concepts and finer points of making gathers in straight rail and balkline carom billiards.
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He poked his stick behind Kolzig's skate on the first one and wristed in a long carom from the goalie on the second.
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The ball then caromed back toward the line of scrimmage.
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Instead of removing the ball from harm's way, it caromed off her foot and dribbled into the open goal.
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But the word "carom" sparked an idea and an invention.
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Whenever a ball caroms off one player and goes into the hands of another player, the ball remains legally in flight as long as it doesn't hit the ground.
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The meaning comes from Billiards, where a carom is a shot in which the cue ball is made to rebound so as to hit two other balls.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
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The holes are situated in valleys and are very user-friendly: Nearly every tee is elevated and wayward drives carom safely back into play.
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Duc Nguyen, 44, said French billiards - also known as carom billiards -- is a popular game among Vietnamese, and he is banking his business on the city's fast-growing Southeast Asian community.
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Why the hell that fatuous yet inarguable quote is still caroming around my brainpan I have no idea whatsoever.
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But the ball caromed off a tree and bounced back into a bunker, leaving a shot at the green.
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It hit the leftfield wall, caromed around the outfield, and the left fielder picked up the ball.
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Because it's almost as wide as the Taconic State Parkway, I thought I ran an even greater risk than usual of caroming off the roadway's guardrails and rock faces and spending the rest of my life in hock as I tried to repay Range Rover for the repairs.
Driving Like the Other Half
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The long stick, which reminded some early users of a tail, can be used to make a ball hit another ball in a form of the game known as carom billiards, played with only three balls by real hustlers on a table with no pockets.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The ball tended to carom off those thick flagsticks, too.
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I decided to make a "carom" of it, and nearly took the heads off a pair of horses, and the pole off the omnibus to which they were attached, as I dashed through.
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But even after Paraguay forward Fredy Bareiro scored off a carom from the goalpost in the 67th minute, Iraq pressed hard with substitute Razzaq Farhan scoring in the 83rd.
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With five seconds left, James missed a free throw, which caromed off to the left side.
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A carom was a strike and a rebound that hit another ball.
City of Glory
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This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
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But Marry Houston's truck hit the outside wall and caromed into Gaughan, who was broadsided by Bryan Refiner after spinning toward the infield.
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Other possibilities include sumo-wrestling competitions, kayak races, tennis tournaments, water-skiing, tug-of-war, carome (a Mauritian version of shove-halfpenny) and petanque competitions, and so on.
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Ilham almost found the Saudi net with his free header in the 42nd minute after receiving a good cross from the right side, but the ball caromed off the crossbar.
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And then lightning struck on Mr. Magic, as he is known in the carom world, and he turned the heat up all the way up.
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Karim Garcia's strong peg off the carom nearly nailed Manny as he nonchalanted his way to second base.
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The shape of the park challenged left and right fielders in playing caroms off the walls on long drives by opposing hitters.
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It caromed to the left, barely missing Elijah's thigh and clipping the wall behind him, creating an impact circle the size of a thumb.
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But in professional carom, unlike in billiards, the cue ball has to hit three cushions during the shot.
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Carom is a shortening of carambole, an obsolete three-ball game with a similar object.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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The ball caromed off his forehead into the hands of shortstop Bill Knickerbocker.
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The ball hopped hard to the right, nowhere to go but out of bounds, until it caromed off the 7cm wide post and back into play.
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It was played like English Billiards by aiming to pocket balls, go in-off or by making canons which were called ‘caroms’.
