How To Use Left-hander In A Sentence
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Lilly set a club record for strikeouts by a left-hander - the previous mark of 11 was accomplished twice by David Wells and once by Al Leiter.
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She eventually lost her cool when the Chinese left-hander wanted to change the shuttle after messing up a return.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, is also a left-hander, as are the actresses Nicole Kidman and Lisa Kudrow, who played dippy Phoebe in Friends.
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Sorry left-handers, report of iPhone 4 recall debunked
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Who foresaw in 2011 that Novak Djokovic was going to become a Grand Slam title hoarder with the endurance and big-match confidence of a certain Spanish left-hander from Majorca?
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Left-handers have trouble using can-openers, scissors, and potato peelers.
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The game values left-handers overall and left-handed pitchers in particular.
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In a world where disadvantages are usually weeded out by natural selection, how have left-handers survived?
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It's easy to think of reasons of why there might be negative effects on left-handers because they are living in a right-handed world.
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We poor benighted left-handers, however, require tender, therapeutic care to deal with our differentness.
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The left-hander had reached a half-century with six fours.
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Quality left-hander who scored predominantly on the leg side and a fine fielder in the deep.
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But, as a natural left-hander who has played right-handed my entire life, I tend to disagree.
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The left-hander gave up two runs and six hits, striking out seven.
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Right-handers will find a counter-clockwise motion easier, left-handers the reverse.
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Therefore although both right-handers and left-handers put on their right shoe first (because of prominence to the right side), there is a difference with regard to tying their laces.
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The left-handers were undaunted and were soon attacking the rather loose bowling with success.
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But left-handers are renowned for being awkward and clumsy and in some societies they are still looked upon with suspicion.
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Hammering 78 from 55 balls, with 90 per cent of his runs in boundaries, the pinch-hitting left-hander did not discriminate.
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Left-handers seem to be more acutely sensitive and responsive to novelty than right handers.
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So Tharanga, a left-hander with sweet timing, is set to open throughout the tournament.
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Quite right - but that's because there's no history of discrimination against left-handers, whereas the practice of using peremptory challenges and other devices to keep blacks off juries is older than Jim Crow and a continuing problem.
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Having given himself a sniff of a chance, however, the Canadian left-hander extinguished his hopes with bogeys at the following two holes.
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There is a suspicion that left-handers like Phil Mickelson and Mike Weir will have an advantage playing into the north-west wind over the testing final nine holes.
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The track drops as you swing through this tight left-hander at 97 km/h in second gear.
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About a hundred years ago a few feeble efforts were made on behalf of the left-hander.
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Monaco also provides some very slow corners, in particular the Grand Hotel Hairpin, a left-hander that became famous under the name Loews.
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O'Sullivan's 72, starting with the remaining 10 reds unpromisingly grouped over one side of the table, was a masterclass in precise positional play and subtle thinking as he took a pink from each and added the yellow for a winning 72 only to negate this good work by missing a simple pink to let the Australian left-hander in for 59 and a 3-1 lead.
Neil Robertson beats Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim World Open title
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He outpointed Philadelphia Phillies left-hander J.A. Happ 105-94 even though he was left off seven of the 32 ballots in voting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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Playing a lefty is always dicey, but Nadal is 2-0 against Puerta and beat left-hander Ricardo Mello in Brazil in February.
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And, now 70, he has turned out for the club ever since, outfoxing many a batsman with those slow left-handers.
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An angled nib means the writer can always see the writing - a particular boon for left-handers - and the hand stays in a better position, the inventor claims.
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But left-handers are renowned for being awkward and clumsy and in some societies they are still looked upon with suspicion.
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There was not one corner where he didn't cut across blindly on the right-handers or drift out wide to the other side of the road on left-handers.
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The temperature differential between the shoulders is more marked at this track as the right-handers are generally fast but the left-handers generally slow, including the chicane which is the slowest corner on the calendar.
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He is also another left-hander.
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Although he went on to lead the NFL in passer rating every year from 1991-94 and was the league's Most Valuable Player in 1992, the left-hander would not truly escape from Montana's enormous shadow until Super Bowl XXIX.
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Still unsettled is the fate of left-hander John Halama.
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An angled nib means the writer can always see the writing - a particular boon for left-handers - and the hand stays in a better position, the inventor claims.
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International tournaments, divided into weight categories by 5kg, are open to left-handers, right-handers, men, and women.
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He is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball, but he has had hitting problems, especially against left-handers.
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Lloyd is not just a nongolfer; he also had to portray a left-hander.
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Other left-handers I know are reasonably ambidextrous, but sadly not many of us are capable of doing everything with both hands.
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His second ball, to Strauss, projected from round the wicket to the left-hander, turned prodigiously from out of the rough and, as the batsman padded up, spun across and behind him and pegged back his leg stump.
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This was a sunlit day of two left-handers picking off an attack through application more than innovation.
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O'Sullivan's 72, starting with the remaining 10 reds unpromisingly grouped over one side of the table, was a masterclass in precise positional play and subtle thinking as he took a pink from each and added the yellow for a winning 72 only to negate this good work by missing a simple pink to let the Australian left-hander in for 59 and a 3-1 lead.
Neil Robertson beats Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim World Open title
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It is not as simple as swapping one left-hander for another.
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Yesterday he out-bowled Ashley Giles and worked hard for the wicket of Salman Butt, flighting the ball to tempt the left-hander into indiscretion.
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The fact that this most coveted world record has been held by left-handers for the last 47 years fuels the decade old theory that left-handers, as a rule, are more gifted than the orthodox right-handers.
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Years ago, it was thought that there was a connection between handedness and language, but current research suggests that right-handers and about 70% of left-handers utilise the left brain for speech.
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The left-hander then mistimes a pull shot out through mid-wicket, but the ball lands in acres of space and Ryder picks up two.
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International tournaments, divided into weight categories by 5kg, are open to left-handers, right-handers, men, and women.
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We left-handers are considered more creative than them righties.
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And left-handers do conform, because they have to.
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The fact that this most coveted world record has been held by left-handers for the last 47 years fuels the decades-old theory that left-handers, as a rule, are more gifted than the orthodox right-handers.
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The left-hander is Baseball America's 18 th-ranked prospect among juniors.
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They were also, I noticed, utterly unusable for left-handers.
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Leading up to the 9th frame of their title match, the two left-handers had bowled clean games.
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World Series MVP Hideki Matsui as well as left fielder Johnny Damon became giveaway agents Monday as well as 37-year-old left-hander Andy Pettitte additionally is eligible for file.
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We want to educate designers and manufactures to accommodate left-handers ' comfort and safety in new product and building design.
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Rehman is bowling over the wicket, into the rough outside the left-hander's off-stump, and he's mixing up his pace, probing away, looking for a rip-snorter that will skittle the skipper.
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Years ago, it was thought that there was a connection between handedness and language, but current research suggests that right-handers and about 70% of left-handers utilise the left brain for speech.
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Brad Penny won't be back until next week at the earliest, and rookie left-hander Nate Teut was ineffective in his major league debut Saturday against Milwaukee, taking the loss, then getting sent to Triple-A Calgary.
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Being tall and a left-hander doubtless helped.
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There are a surprising number of left-handers and they tend to congregate in niches - e.g. about half the people at this firm are, and a good chunk of people on my course at University were too.
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He's finally healthy, and he hits left-handers well enough to keep from being platooned.
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Both are left-handers who rely on command and control more than raw speed or stuff.
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Being tall and a left-hander doubtless helped.
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The Bangladeshi left-handers, who had posted their country's previous best opening stand against England in the first innings, quickly demonstrated that was merely a 'sighter' as the tourists raced to 189 for two in only 43 overs off a chastened home attack.
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I suppose we can explain the left-handers by noting that creativity is usually a right-brain function, and left-handers are right-brained.
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His 990 cc Yamaha will be bucking and drifting towards the blind left-hander at the bottom of the Craner section.
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The burly left-hander and former England one-day player has just been given the captaincy so to slog the left arm spin of Gary Keedy to long-on was nothing less than irresponsible.
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Left-hander Bob Bryan served an ace on match point, and the brothers celebrated with their trademark chest bump as Roddick and Fish cheered from the first row.
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The theory is that right-handed competitors are less accustomed to facing left-handers, making them a more difficult proposition.
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The left-hander plays the spinners too much on the back foot and should get forward more.
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This finding suggests that left-handers may differ from right-handed individuals in the manner in which they evaluate credibility and may be more flexible in the cues they use.
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They were the twin pitchers everyone wanted to see, the Nationals right-hander who was already well known as a collegian at San Diego State, and the Reds left-hander who was more of a mystery because he just left Cuba last July.
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Meanwhile, six-time runner up and a fellow left-hander White tweeted: "He's so entertaining and I love his flair shots.
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The left-hander went for a drive but only succeeded in edging the ball to Parthiv Patel behind the stumps.
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A day after winning the rights to negotiate with Japanese left-hander Kei Igawa with a $26,000,194 bid, the Yankees remained focused on acquiring another starting pitcher to go with him.
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Directions are given for both right- and left-handers.
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But the left-hander was caught at long-off from the first ball after midafternoon drinks.
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He broke through for his first wicket of the match in his 24th over of the innings, unfurling an overpitched delivery to the young left-hander.
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As the table below shows, left-handers have been far more prolific at this ground over the last four years.
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The son of a Sydney grocer, Rosewall was a natural left-hander but was taught to play right-handed by his father and developed a peerless backhand.
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Therefore although both right-handers and left-handers put on their right shoe first (because of prominence to the right side), there is a difference with regard to tying their laces.
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Being tall and a left-hander doubtless helped.
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The left-hander was shaken by a short ball before a full inswinger cleaned up his stumps on 13.
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It's obviously on that side so that right-handed people can operate it - which made me wonder whether anyone makes watches for left-handers.
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I dropped a couple of tenths of a second in the first sector, but where I really lost time was Turn eight, the downhill left-hander.
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Yorkshire owed a big debt of gratitude to their three left-handers at Scarborough yesterday for giving them a chance of holding out for a draw against Somerset.
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Fridge handles are placed on the left for right-handers; handwriting runs from left to right, forcing the left-hander to push the pen along instead of pulling.
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There is a suspicion that left-handers like Phil Mickelson and Mike Weir will have an advantage playing into the north-west wind over the testing final nine holes.
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There were several parallels between the two innings, the most notable being that both sides had Australian openers who plundered centuries and the first three batsmen in both teams were left-handers.
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Snicking through St Mary's, a sharpish left-hander with an odd camber and change of surface.
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Chris's dad, at a brisk medium - pace, was not so fiery as the younger version but swung the ball consistently - into the right-handers and away from me and other left-handers.
