shuttlecock

How To Use shuttlecock In A Sentence

• To play at Shuttlecock methinks is the game now," says a character in The Two Maids of More Clacke, written by Robert Armin in 1609. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
• Upon its return to earth, the spacecraft transforms from an airplane-like shape to a "shuttlecock," wafting down through the atmosphere yet not overheating. Virgin Galactic – Get Your Ticket To Ride
• The Indonesians became increasingly desperate, illustrated by a misunderstanding at 10-13 as both men were wrong-footed as the shuttlecock landed in the middle of the court.
• Lane began by negotiating a truce in a price war in the Far East between Royal Dutch and Shell and by putting an end to what he called the damaging “battledore and shuttlecock game of accusation” between Samuel and Deterding. The Prize
• He snapped his Achilles heel while bending to pick up a shuttlecock and will be in plaster for three months.
• The shop sells, along with their 10 varieties of badminton shuttlecocks, 3 brands of croquet sets, wallyballs, bocce sets, squash balls, fitness balls, toy balls and much more.
• Shon, who is partially sighted after being struck in the right eye by a shuttlecock when he was 15, certainly had his work cut out for him against his Indonesian opponent.
• The routines include religious folk and aboriginal dance, martial arts along with diabolo playing and shuttlecock kicking.
• She let out a dry laugh and I hit the shuttlecock, then she ran to meet it, maintaining the rally in silence for a few seconds before continuing.
• A shuttlecock drogue can be trailed behind the boom and used to refuel aircraft equipped with refuelling probes.