How To Use Rounder In A Sentence

Today he is seen as one of the most dangerous all-rounders in international cricket.
Outside my home children play football and rounders within very close proximity to the houses and cars.
He was not groomed for the all rounder role, but has simply filled it extremely well when called upon.
Only a fortnight ago, England coach Duncan Fletcher lamented that even the world's best all-rounders rarely reached the heights of their batting and bowling games at the same time.
When I see a group of immigrant boys playing a crude match of rounders in the streets of the village, I feel pride for the assimilating spirit of the sport.

I am a bit of an all-rounder, but it was batting that I mainly refined in the family back garden.
Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
The bottom portion of her face became rounder with larger eyes and simply outlined lips, always accompanied by the pony-tailed, beribboned hair.
A season of English county cricket with Kent converted him to a complete all-rounder.
The breeding tube of the female, between the anus and anal fin, is broader and rounder than the male, and will have a blunt tip.
Walter Collier offered his services as an escort, only too pleased to find an excuse to avoid playing rounders. GOODBYE CURATE
Jayson Werth then hit a hard grounder to third baseman Martin Prado's right. USATODAY.com
Herds of lechee or lechwe now enliven the meadows; and they and their younger brother, the graceful poku, smaller, and of a rounder contour, race together towards the grassy fens. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
He was a talented all-rounder, bowling his leg breaks off a very long run up.
Talented fashion all-rounders are bathing trunks and shorts in quick-dry fabrics offered with colour co-ordinated shirts to complete beach outfits.
Setbacks: Highly-regarded pitchers Rob Purvis, a supplemental first-rounder from the 1999 draft, and Gary Majewski each struggled. USATODAY.com - White Sox 2002 prospect report
The title of the game would suggest that Gaelic Games: Hurling may soon follow but we may be a while waiting for ladies football, camogie, handball or rounders.
This is a good all-rounder, spicy and sweet. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
It's a great all-rounder if you want a healthy system. The Sun
Charkaoui is one of five people, all citzens of Arab countries, who have been held in Canada under a Security Certificate without charge [see the CBC "backgrounder" [3]] The Supreme Court of Canada recently agreed to hear his appeal as to whether the issuance of the Certificate against him meets the requirements of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Slaw » Situational Tags » Print
The 49ers were reportedly prepared to swoop up Ole Miss tackle Michael Oher with the No. 10 overall pick, giving them a long-term bookend for 2008 first-rounder Joe Staley. SFGate: Top News Stories
Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
Botham, 48, is widely considered to be one of the greatest all-rounders ever to grace the game.
Michael Schultz, a talented second-rounder from the 2000 draft, missed the entire season following shoulder surgery. USATODAY.com - Diamondbacks 2002 prospect report
Is he a genuine all-rounder or a bowler who bats? Times, Sunday Times
For an academic all-rounder, medicine was an almost arbitrary choice. Times, Sunday Times
Ian Botham, one of the greatest cricket all-rounders of all time, received the Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of the major impact he has made to the world of sport during his remarkable career.
The jerk came up to bat looking grim and manly and got aboard with a bloop grounder down the third-base line.
Nyjer Morgan led off the inning with a bunt single which was actually misplayed by Capuano, who made an ill-advised attempt to swipe at Morgan with his glove, rather than make the safer play and throw to first, but Morgan was wiped out on a double play grounder from Ian Desmond. Live blog: Nationals at Mets, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
They picked their best batsman, their best bowler and their best all-rounder.
But he claimed he was provoked when the man threw an aerosol can at the group and then hit one of his friends with an 18 in rounders bat.
The favourite shaping material of stays was whalebone, cut into thin strips and sewn in a fan pattern to make the torso appear rounder.
We played rounders and cricket in the street and sometimes that ball really stung.
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You got your tomcod, your salt cod, your rounders... Any way you want to call it, it's fish. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Wang Ping: Around the early 14th century, grounder began to prevail among the common people in Germany.
The all-rounder Stevens, whose knock was a season's best, and Northeast helped Kent recover from 51 for four to score 200 for six in reply to the Netherlands' 199 for six, which was dominated by a record seventh-wicket partnership of 124 in 106 balls between Tom de Grooth and Mudassar Bukhari. Sussex v Worcestershire | CB 40 round-up
The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks.
Andres Leighton/Associated Press Lendl Simmons, left, and Ramnaresh Sarwan ran between the wickets as Indian all-rounder Yusuf Pathan looked on, June 8. India in West Indies
Now the big all-rounder may be sidelined for up to three months to cure his latest injury and fully recover from a series of niggles which have hampered him throughout the season.
•Atlanta Falcons: They seem set on the outside with last year's first-rounder, Jamaal Anderson, and John Abraham, though Abraham's durability is always an issue. D-linemen may prove strongest crop in NFL draft
My guess is that the new rules will put the bits-n-pieces all-rounder out of the game and encourage teams to pick genuine all-rounders or specialist batsmen/bowlers as the substitute.
Jailbreakers have long had an application available to them called backgrounder, which lets them run any application in the background - and you know what? TechCrunch
Fairer and rounder shall be thine arms and thy shoulders when thou hast seen five more summers, yet scarce more lovesome, so strong and fine as now they are. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Kelly was a longtime rounder, he knew how to play innocent. SNOWJOB
This is a good all-rounder, spicy and sweet. Times, Sunday Times
The fruit, of which the varieties are numerous (such as pinang betul, pinang ambun, and pinang wangi), is in its outer coat about the size of a plum; the nut something less than that of the nutmeg but rounder. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
she's the best all-rounder they've seen in years
You could also try rigging up a net to play volleyball, a hoop for basketball or invite some of your children's friends round for a game of rounders.
You should nominate your best marksmen as snipers while your all-arounders act as assault gunners or sappers.
And the said witch was clad full fair, and had laid by her sloth and stupid pride, as meseemed; and her limbs were grown rounder and sleeker, and her skin fairer, so that to them that knew her not she might well seem to be a goodly woman. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The example given, "epigenetics" is a good one -- the "backgrounder" [sic] from Johns Hopkins is much clearer. May 2007
Choose from batsmen, bowlers, all-rounders or a new wicket keeper - whatever is needed to take your side to the top.
I like them a bit rounder, myself Anyway, he come over at last and the old guy was just stood looking at him. LOSING IT
Several baseball players and writers pointed to the British games of cricket and rounders as clear sources for baseball's origins.
Brown's memory of himself at this time is not as a swot but as an all-rounder, ‘very keen on sports’.
A few of them saw the routine grounders Jeter kicked, and the wildly errant missiles he threw, all over the South Atlantic League.
I was backstop at rounders and had to retrieve the ball from a nearby horses' field.
It's what I all - rounder. Sort of thing one can wear with anything to any occasion.
In two starts, this seventh-rounder from UCLA has recorded ten tackles, three INTs, one fumble recover, three special teams tackles and three passes defended (they called it "defensed" but that ain't fucking English, chumps). I Dislike Your Favorite Team
He is a good all-rounder and superb dancer too. The Sun
She plays field hockey, tennis and rounders, which is kind of the English version of baseball.
Rounder and "sunnier" than old-fashioned Bordeaux. Mondosapore
Burlington's Rounder Records, a respected American roots music label started by three Cambridge "folkies" in 1970, has been acquired by a larger independent record company. Business - BostonHerald.com
A good all-rounder sauce for pasta and good for pizza bases too. The Sun
However, his smug self-confidence took a battering when Tudor won the Rounders.
Does the lack of an all-rounder weaken the team? Times, Sunday Times
This was not due to a lack of ability as Tom had excellent ball control, could accurately score goals and easily hit a rounders' ball.
Flintoff has the supreme gift of a Botham and all the great all-rounders.
Going into the last and final round, the scheduled 12 rounder had been squashed up, squeezed down and condensed into the space of three minutes.
One after another they banged the ball out of the infield, line-drives and whizzing grounders and almost all of them got on base.
David DeJesus, a 2000 fourth-rounder, is their starting center fielder, and their first-rounders from 2004 and 2005, outfielder Billy Butler and third baseman Alex Gordon, respectively, are just getting to the majors. For evaluating, developing talent, hard to beat Tigers
By analyzing the mechanics and stress vectors of my chest exercises, I was able to reapply them with fresh techniques that gave my chest a much rounder and wider fullness, wrapping my pecs farther around my rib cage.
A persistent knee injury has forced Northants allrounder Richard Williams, 35, to retire.
After being opened for a day or more, the Chardonnay sometimes tasted softer and less oaky, the Cabernet rounder and less tannic.
He was one of the early initiators of cricket in Rio Claro, which he saw as a healthy hobby for the area's boys; in the same way, he sponsored rounders for girls.
When he was an MP it was left to as assistant to prepare detailed backgrounders for his questions in Parliament.
This is a good all-rounder, spicy and sweet. Times, Sunday Times
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He practiced with it yesterday, taking grounders during pregame infield practice.
The only time a team should go with five bowlers is when one of them is a genuine all-rounder. Times, Sunday Times
I suggest going to the park for a kick around with a football, or a game of rounders, cricket or frisbee.
Being talked about as a genuine all-rounder is encouraging Broad to take himself far too seriously. Times, Sunday Times
These are rounder in shape, about 25% crumbled from the pellet form into loose salt, and very dirty (black specs/rocks in the pellets and loose in the crumbled salt.) Water Softener Salt
Anyway, there is a second all-rounder already in the team, wicket-keeper Geraint Jones.
And it has turned on its head his desire to be known as a batting all-rounder rather than a bowling all-rounder. The Sun
A different type of Viking penannular arm-ring, smaller, plainer, and rounder in cross-section than the type found in Ireland, is commonest in hoards in Scotland and the Isle of Man.
One is a rugged all-rounder from Sweden, the very epicentre of snowland. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In the warmer seasons it would have echoed to the excited calls of bull rush and rounders, the click of cricket bat and ball.
The girls team was managed by Michelle Switzer, a former Rounders Gold Medalist.
Fowler hurdled Utley, who stepped into the basepath to field Todd Helton's (FSY) slow grounder, and his quick flip to second base was wide right and mishandled for an error by Rollins. Phils rally past Rox to advance to NLCS vs. Dodgers
Ortiz misplayed Bernie's leadoff grounder for an error and then Miguel Cairo, in for Enrique Wilson, moved Williams over.
Erin White squeezed a grounder through the right side of the infield in the eighth to score Jackie Lance and give the Canadians a 1-0 victory.
For an academic all-rounder, medicine was an almost arbitrary choice. Times, Sunday Times
The 1980s was a time of great cricket all-rounders.
The actor's were made rounder for the part using cotton wool padding.
The land is now being used by the football and rounders club, whose members want to stop dogs fouling the pitch and youngsters riding motorcycles across it.
In fact, 2002 first-rounder Khalil Greene at shortstop is about it. For evaluating, developing talent, hard to beat Tigers
The all-rounder Shahid Afridi will play for Pakistan again only when the country's board is changed. Shahid Afridi quits in protest at Pakistan board's 'lack of respect'
Finally, Rosen hit a slow grounder toward Detroit third baseman Gerry Priddy and raced as hard as he could for first.
Featured in the backgrounder is a new essay from Michael Moynihan, Director of NDN's Green Project. NDN blogs
The young performer boasted himself to be an all - rounder .
It was an unbelievable bit of fielding and that is the value of a great all-rounder. Times, Sunday Times
He would be departing just when he has finally blossomed into a mature and consistent world-class all-rounder.
He usually throws it high in the strike zone, which results in more fly balls than grounders.
‘We had mainly all-rounders and batsmen, so we were very confident and we weren't disappointed with the result,’ he said.
I class myself as an all-rounder.
The Black Caps are bullish about their chances of success this summer, with captain Ross Taylor, coach John Wright and former all-rounder Chris Cairns all confident they can pull of an unlikely win. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Liquigas all-rounder Nibali had hoped to give home fans their first classic win of the season, but instead this has been a barren vintage for the Italians. Philippe Gilbert wins Giro di Lombardia again
He played in a band, the Holy Modal Rounders, and his early plays often required their casts to ‘do the frug onstage’.
At the same time it would be apt to remember and raise a glass to previous world-rounders who have achieved the same single-handed feat, albeit slower, without the daily security of satellite navigation systems.
This was not due to a lack of ability as Tom had excellent ball control, could accurately score goals and easily hit a rounders' ball.
He fumbles routine grounders and on a cool afternoon in September in the middle of a three-way pennant race, he lallygags his way to first and Willy pulls him from the game and chastises him in the dugout in plain view of the SNY cameras, and in the post-game conference. Mets Geek
He has made enormous strides in every aspect of his game to become an awesome all-rounder.
In his first start at third, Soriano - a natural shortstop - misplayed one bouncer, letting it go off his glove, and let another fast grounder get by him.
The all-rounder was eventually clean bowled by Adam Sanford to end the New Zealand innings.
The team consists of five all-rounders, six specialist batsmen, two wicket keepers and five strike bowlers.
The coach proceeded to do a pantomime of a player misplaying a grounder, exaggerating a gaffe from the previous night's game.
Australia is a good all-rounder. Times, Sunday Times
The Jamaican all-rounder Andre Russell kept his composure, after a no-ball with his first delivery, and West Indies had cause for celebration at the start of their home campaigns, which include two Tests with Pakistan in May and three against India in June. Devendra Bishoo grabs four wickets as West Indies beat Pakistan
He's a good all - rounder who likes tennis, basket - ball, and swimming.
•Tight end: Marcedes Lewis, a 2006 first-rounder, is coming off his best season. After lost season, Jags seek how to put 'train' back on track
For an academic all-rounder, medicine was an almost arbitrary choice. Times, Sunday Times
Orta was called safe on a grounder even though the throw beat him to the bag.
The 2001 third-rounder from the University of North Carolina has power and speed, USATODAY.com - Rapid advancement was system signature
Last year, he had little trouble gloving grounders, but his throws were erratic.
Sotherton is actually an all-rounder, with an Olympic heptathlon bronze medal to show for it.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman . Shaya would have been out and that would have ended the game.
The derogatory remark that the rounder handles might strike the bench leg is uncalled for.
Manan Vatsyayana/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Pragyan Ojha, right, celebrated after taking the wicket of Delhi Daredevils all-rounder Irfan Pathan during the match in New Delhi, April 19, 2011. IPL: Hyderabad Beats Delhi
We'd forgotten how great an all-rounder it can be. Times, Sunday Times
When I had my backgrounder with you all, I had all the information.
It nicely blended blackberry with spice, some licorice and a bit of mint and got jammier and rounder as it opened. Ari Bendersky: Stay Warm This Winter With Big California Reds
Australia have a nine-man team of riders with different abilities, including reigning champion Cadel Evans, an all-rounder, and two sprinters inAllan Davis and Matthew Goss. Cavendish feeling more optimistic about elite road race
She's equally good at running and jumping and is one of the team's best all rounders.
More information about the PXA signal analyzer is available at www. agilent.com/find/X-Series_backgrounder. WebWire | Recent Headlines
Jeter was spared an error for his bobble of a grounder by Michael Young, but not for the wild throw that followed.
At the lower levels, righty Chad Petty, a second-rounder from the 2000 draft, sparkled in rookie ball (6-1, 1.28 ERA) and was honored by Topps as a short-season rookie All-Star. USATODAY.com - Tigers 2002 prospect report
Adonis-in-bag adjusted his polished all-rounder with a delicately gloved finger, and declared that the painter was "a jol-ly fel-low. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
This spirited and vivacious cricketer is a fighter, a towering all-rounder in the making.
The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood," the coalition said in a scientific "backgrounder" provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that "scientists differ" on the issue. Glenn Hurowitz: Memo to Media: Industry Spin on Climate is Still Deceiving You
Sport is very competitive and we travelled mostly to Pompey to play football, rounders, and tennis.
The children will play a variety of sports including hockey, basketball, rounders, Olympic handball, Gaelic football and table tennis.
Loye fell to Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey, who claimed four wickets in an innings for the first time for Yorkshire.
However the eminent all rounder will be continuing playing cricket as far as fifty over game and twenty-twenty version are concerned. Extraordinary people - Dean du Plessis - The blind cricket commentator
Non-Indian readers and, I dare say, many Indian readers will find it a useful backgrounder.
It's a great all-rounder and can be planted now. Times, Sunday Times
It was smaller and rounder than a goose's egg ought to be.
Over the 3 days, the players were put through their paces of hurling as well as taking part in fun-games, rounders and skills testing.
Stick-mikes are the all-rounders of the audio world, but when used for video their size makes them clearly visible on shot.
Linda Barker chose the school's head of girls games to umpire a rounders match.
A game of rounders or Frisbee in the park costs nothing.
It was the kind of loose grounder that John E. would run out. ABSOLUTE ZERO
Australian all-rounder Andrew McDonald's 62 off 45 balls and Abdul Razzaq's 40 from 25 set the stage for Taylor to take his side past the Falcons' 160 for four – in which Martin Guptill led the scoring with 44. Nottinghamshire defeat Steelbacks to move towards quarter-final
The all-rounder was immediately taken off by captain Jeff Teiman and did not bowl again in the match.
Chad Durbin relieved and gave up Jason Bartlett's RBI grounder that pulled the Rays within a run. USATODAY.com
In addition, she had a shorter tail, a rounder head, a shorter muzzle, rounder eyes and greater distance between the eyes than did the Siamese.
We played football and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
I haven't played much four-day cricket in the last couple of years and, like anything, it's a case of remembering how to do it," the all-rounder said. Michael Yardy and Ben Brown of Sussex pile pressure on Yorkshire
Samuel Sanchez (ESP) As Olympic road race champion, Sanchez knows all about coming out on top in races of attrition, and the Spanish all-rounder, who excels on hilly courses, comes into the race having finished a career-best fourth overall on the Tour de France. Favorites for Sunday’s world road race championships
Outfielder Chris Duncan, a 1999 first-rounder, is providing the best results, though St. Louis has reacquired pitcher Braden Looper and second baseman Adam Kennedy, their first-round picks in 1996 and 1997, respectively. For evaluating, developing talent, hard to beat Tigers
How often have you seen a batter hit a sizzling grounder to the first baseman who is holding the runner on first?
The children will play a variety of sports including hockey, basketball, rounders, Olympic handball, Gaelic football and table tennis.
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Playing hopscotch, hide and seek, even a game of rounders was all in a day's fun for a thirteen year old in the good old days.
scorchio" at 1300, and our gaffer is a powerful right-handed all-rounder from Preston who can turn a game with bat or ball. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
In the bottom of the fifth, the Kikuyus added an insurance run when Harold got aboard on an error and Demetrius slapped a routine grounder that went under the shortstop's glove and past the left fielder.
For an academic all-rounder, medicine was an almost arbitrary choice. Times, Sunday Times
The general tells the story about how he had been away from the Pentagon for a while and then was (as I remember) brought back to give a backgrounder.
No other genuine all-rounder has been given the award, in no small part because the proliferation of games across three formats counts increasingly against them. Times, Sunday Times
Although he is a capable wicket-keeper and it enables the national side to play him as a virtual all rounder, his keeping has never quite reached the same high standard as his batting.
Yet there can be no doubt now that the Lancashire giant can emerge as one of world cricket's top all-rounders.
Smoky Quartz is a powerful healing crystal and a grounder of excess energy.
And not an especially good idea on a surface where infield grounders quickly become base hits.
After signing with Zoë, a division of roots label Rounder, they returned re-energized with Open in 2001.
It is analysed to some cupboard of gas storage. By combining lifting method in this text. It plays a certain reference role to grounder reinforcement and lift construction for designer and builder.
(Charkaoui is one of five people, all citzens of Arab countries, who have been held in Canada under a Security Certificate without charge [see the CBC "backgrounder"] The Supreme Court of Canada recently agreed to hear his appeal as to whether the issuance of the Certificate against him meets the requirements of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.) Situational Tags
Boone chopped a grounder to Bill Mueller, but the ball spun out of the third baseman's grasp for a charitable infield single to load the bases.
The team consists of five all-rounders, six specialist batsmen, two wicketkeepers and five strike bowlers.
He is keen to develop his batting and become an all-rounder.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.
He got Jones to hit a scary grounder through the box that rookie second baseman Craig Counsell gloved.
They ran themselves into the ground playing Olympic handball, rounders, football and hurling and competing in the athletic events.
They will consist of five specialist batsmen, one wicket keeper, two allrounders, three pacemen and two spinners.
The main issues to be resolved are the batting order, especially the openers and the identity of the allrounders.
I was great middle-distance runner but he was such a fantastic all-rounder. The Sun
Imagine that: in the middle of London, a meadow, wild with thistles and long grass and flowers, with a family of escaped rabbits running wild and an area of grass just big enough for a decent game of rounders.
There was a time when controversy was never far from the all-rounder's door, though it was not courted deliberately.
After walking Stanley, Barber was replaced by Miller who got Don Weft to hit a grounder up the middle.
A supplemental first-rounder from the 1998 draft who was without question the top player in the high Class A Carolina league in USATODAY.com - White Sox 2002 prospect report
After Anderson led off with a single, Valentin fielded Betemit's grounder in the hole between first and second. USATODAY.com - Delgado powers Mets past Dodgers in opener
Having already guaranteed her world place, Britain's top female all-rounder is sharpening up for the Helsinki heptathlon by competing in four events.
But if Callendar is a rounder, he and Brady might have been in this from the start. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
A fifth-rounder from the 1996 draft, Crede tasted the big leagues at the end of the 2000 season and hit .276 with 17 homers and 65 RBI in the Class AAA International League last year. USATODAY.com - White Sox 2002 prospect report
Also on the undercard is a four-rounder featuring welterweight Chris Gilbert (1-0, 1 KO) of Windsor, Vt. against Noel Garcia (2-11-1, 1KO) of Springfield, Mass. All Stories
Charkaoui is one of five people, all citzens of Arab countries, who have been held in Canada under a Security Certificate without charge see the CBC "backgrounder" The Supreme Court of Canada recently agreed to hear his appeal as to whether the issuance of the Certificate against him meets the requirements of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Situational Tags — Slaw
She was conscious of her lips parting, of her eyes growing wider, rounder. THE PERFECT LOVER
Catcher Jared Abruzzo, a second-rounder from the 2000 draft who excelled in his first summer as a professional, struggled badly at two Class A stops last season. USATODAY.com - Angels 2002 prospect report
His line-drive, fly-ball swing helps cut down on double-play grounders.

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