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How To Use Overarm In A Sentence

  • He lunges at the open window, hurling his strawberry milkshake in a cramped overarm throw.
  • One boxer, Khalid, who is 21, displays particular talent, with an overarm technique reminiscent of George Foreman.
  • It's hard to get too excited for the England boys when they've just vanquished a team that can barely bowl overarm.
  • I think basically it was an overarm stroke with a scissor kick with the legs.
  • “You will have more success if you throw overarm,” a voice said from directly behind her. No Man's Mistress
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  • He is credited with introducing round-arm and overarm bowling to Victoria.
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • Overarm, bouncers, yorkers, reverse swing, googlies and doosras have shown just how responsive and inventive bowlers can be. Times, Sunday Times
  • The efficiency of the evolving speed strokes - overarm sidestroke, trudgen and, later, the crawl stroke-could now be tested more accurately and scientifically.
  • Ii'S clear from the history of cricket that bowling has gone through an evolution from underarm bowling to overarm bowling.
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • The underarm lob is better suited to operations in woodland, where an overarm throw may result in the grenade hitting a tree or branch, and bouncing back towards the thrower!
  • A pitcher (known as the bowler), surrounded by fielders, throws a leather ball in an overarm action onto the ground toward a batter (batsman). Financier Has Been 'All Out' With Traditional Cricket Fans
  • Among the exercises excluded are squash, football, surfing, backgammon and, sadly, bowling overarm.
  • Yokozuna Hakuho nailed ozeki Kotooshu with a huge left-hand overarm throw to close out the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a perfect 15-0 record on Sunday. Hakuho Wins Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament
  • I think basically it was an overarm stroke with a scissor kick with the legs.
  • Samuel immediately reached for a stone that was roughly the size of a cricket ball, took a breath, and threw it overarm at the boxes of bottles. The Gates
  • If he's in a bad mood, he'll throw stones, and his overarm spin wouldn't disgrace the English team!
  • Yokozuna Hakuho nailed ozeki Kotooshu with a huge left-hand overarm throw to close out the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a perfect 15-0 record on Sunday. Hakuho Wins Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament
  • I tossed the pager overarm out in front of the car. Persuader
  • Viola watched him lope up to the near wickets, throw the ball in one fluid overarm motion, and shatter the far wickets every time. No Man's Mistress
  • But till 1862 such a delivery was reckoned as illegal; in fact, Edgar Willsher of Kent was the first cricketer to be no-balled for bowling overarm in 1862.
  • He lunges at the open window, hurling his strawberry milkshake in a cramped overarm throw.
  • I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
  • IT'S clear from the history of cricket that bowling has gone through an evolution from underarm bowling to overarm bowling.
  • So had teaching her how to throw a ball overarm, especially cozying up behind her to demonstrate the correct motion of the arm with her. No Man's Mistress
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • He is credited with introducing round-arm and overarm bowling to Victoria.
  • In cricket, the ball is delivered overarm.
  • I think basically it was an overarm stroke with a scissor kick with the legs.
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • In England, blind cricketers bowl overarm and with a slightly bigger ball about the size of a size 3 football.
  • The underarm lob is better suited to operations in woodland, where an overarm throw may result in the grenade hitting a tree or branch, and bouncing back towards the thrower!
  • He used a stroke he observed natives of the Solomon Islands using, which combined an up-and-down kick with an alternating overarm stroke.

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