pace off

Example Sentences

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"Meg Jones can create something out of nothing with her pace off the mark," 2014 World Cup winner Kat Merchant told BBC's BBC's Rugby Union Daily.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

“The focus was to try and take pace off, see if they’re hitting it in the air,” he said about the bowling plan.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2023

“She definitely was probably taking some pace off then.”

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

Chris Evert, on pundit duty on the BBC, thinks that will be a disadvantage to Pliskova’s power game, because it takes a touch of pace off the ball.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2021

The jackrabbit had dodged, dug in, taken a hard right turn, which apparently surprised the coyotes enough to throw their pace off so that the rabbit maintained at least a small lead.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen