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.
-
Like a fencer, I lunged forwards then soared into the air to meet the shuttlecock.
-
I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
-
In 1956 / 57, when Dunmore entered team competition for the first time, shuttlecocks cost thirty shillings a box and membership fees consisted of five shillings registration and a half a crown a week.
-
The club has just recently been awarded a Network Fund grant of £6200 which will be spent on the maintainance and upkeep of the courts at the club and also on new shuttlecocks, nets and clothing for members.
-
May 23, 2006, 10: 38 am out of credit card debt says: out of credit carddebt stereotyped shuttlecock conscription inglorious lancer
The Volokh Conspiracy » The War on Terrorism in the Courts:
-
Doubtful which might be the clarionet – stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat.
Little Dorrit
-
The royal shuttlecock being three-and-twenty, the battledores were very anxious to get him married.
A Child's History of England
-
It now had fence slats and feed bags laid across, and held all types of useful things—shuttlecocks, disposable cameras, Play-Doh molds, and so on—things Joey found discarded, including a functional abacus, which is really quite rare.
Molasses
-
Materialism and spiritualism are a fine pair of battledores with which charlatans in long gowns keep a shuttlecock a-going.
The Magic Skin
-
There were also some children who, perhaps intrigued by badminton star Nigelia Saunders' Olympic debut, used their purple plastic rackets to knock shuttlecocks over a purple and lime-green net to each other.
-
In the first two sets, Sony could not free himself from Bao's pressure and failed to return the shuttlecock to Bao's court.
-
Sports To put ( a ball or shuttlecock ) in play , as in tennis, badminton , or jai alai.
-
The left-handed Wong took the first game quickly at 7-1 with his accurate shots as Marlev made too many unforced errors, sending the shuttlecock to the net or behind Wong's line.
-
Shuttlecock and battledore, "he said obscurely," ....
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
-
On the other hand, maybe he was disturbed by the lights and wind at the stadium which make it difficult to control the shuttlecock.
-
And her first attempts at badminton (at four) were fraught with difficulties because up till then she had dabbled with tennis, and expected the shuttlecock to bounce!
-
He rode his favourite hobby of gardening, and took his regular 'ante-jentacular' and 'post-prandial' walks, and played battledore and shuttlecock in the intervals of codification.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
-
To be a shuttlecock between two racquets — one called the hulks, and the other the police — is a life in which success means never-ending toil, and peace and quiet seem quite impossible.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
-
The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
-
She sent the shuttlecock flying over the net with a practised flick of the wrist.
-
She sent the shuttlecock flying over the net with a practised flick of the wrist.
-
Pen watched and approved this stratagem, hoped for the best results, and believed the day won when Debby grew pale and silent, and followed with her eyes the young couple who were playing battledoor and shuttlecock with each other's hearts, as if she took some interest in the game.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
-
Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
-
They batted the shuttlecock back and forth across the net a few time.
-
Am I the only one to remember Sjöberg from the Brunching Shuttlecocks site?
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A look to the future! Thanks to Wired!
-
Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers.
Les Miserables
-
He and I played games like marbles and shuttlecock and battledore.
-
Every one promised, as it were, to be a battle-dore if I would be the other, and the shuttlecock was to be our letters, — egad!
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
-
They tend to let the shuttlecock play them instead of attacking it.
-
England, among so many battledores and such a poor shuttlecock; and the
A Child's History of England
-
Cann returned her serve and Hughes stood back, waiting and hoping the shuttlecock would drop the wrong side of the white line.
-
He picked up the shuttlecock and we soon started a game, chatting amiably as we played.
-
Above all, he must not be deluded into believing that his condition can be permanently bettered by a mere battledoor [sic] and shuttlecock of words, or by any process of mere mental gymnastics or oratory.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
-
In the nineteenth century there were repeated complaints that the pavements of London were made impassable by children's shuttlecock and tipcat.
-
Its primitive racquets and feather shuttlecocks were soon rendered obsolete by the discovery of celluloid.
-
I fear I ply my battledore so fiercely that the best of shuttlecocks has not time to right itself between the blows; but I will be steadier.
-
But in that society where one sometimes sits down and breathes, where conversation is considered as a fine art, and where talk is a mutual game of battledoor and shuttlecock, then it is that your stupid man looms up on the horizon like a blanket of clouds.
From a Girl's Point of View
-
And I had the chance to finish off the match when I was leading 17-14 and my opponent hit a lame return, only for me to smack the shuttlecock into the net.
-
The shuttlecock is a cork in which feathers have been inserted.
Outdoor Sports and Games
-
Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête.
Star-Dust
-
If the consumer decides to participate then he or she will require a racket, shuttlecocks, clothing and footwear.
-
They batted the shuttlecock back and forth across the net a few time.
-
If the consumer decides to participate then he or she will require a racket, shuttlecocks, clothing and footwear.
-
The "shuttlecock" configuration is for sub-orbital speeds, not orbital speeds.
SPACE.com
-
It is interesting to note that there were no shuttlecock manufacturers in those days, so players had to make their own shuttlecocks from whatever materials were available.
-
out of credit carddebt stereotyped shuttlecock conscription inglorious lancer
The Volokh Conspiracy » The War on Terrorism in the Courts:
-
The Billickin gracefully withdrew with this parting speech, and from that time Rosa occupied the restless position of shuttlecock between these two battledores.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
-
She sent the shuttlecock flying over the net with a practised flick of the wrist.
-
A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.
Ulysses
-
There was no harm in him — he had a great aversion to shedding blood: which was something — but, he was a weak, silly, helpless young man, and a mere shuttlecock to the great lordly battledores about the Court.
A Child's History of England
-
It'll give you an excuse to say "shuttlecock" without feeling silly.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
-
Adults still play a game with a shuttlecock made out of corn.
-
One day I gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and green feathers.
Les Miserables
-
I thought this over as I got a shuttlecock and volleyed it against the wall.