(a.) Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(2) A mere glance at the time courses shows what reaction schemes are inapplicable.
(3) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
(4) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
(5) At first glance it seemed to be Carlos Alberto Parreira, a man who was sacked by Saudi Arabia after losing his first two matches at France 1998.
(6) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
(7) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(8) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
(9) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
(10) Andy and his dad – who now looks like a Stieg Larsson character with a secret underground chamber - share a knowing glance and everyone is happy.
(11) Moments earlier Olsson had given the visitors the lead with a glancing header from Brunt’s corner to the near-post.
(12) Climate injustice is not at first glance a legal problem any more than climate change itself is: it is economic, political, scientific.
(13) Photograph: Life at a Glance He had been a relatively successful culture secretary in the first Blair government, so why was he sacked with no offer of another government job immediately after Labour won a second term in 2001?
(14) I cannot risk a whole game, I am a long-term coach.” Puzzled glances around the room alerted the manager to the possibility of a misunderstanding.
(15) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
(16) At first glance this may look simply like the natural order being imposed, a Premier League club easing out a side from two tiers below even if they were forced to endure the irritation of extra-time in the process.
(17) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
(18) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?
(19) At first glance the underlying profit before tax of £3.8bn, up 12.3%, looks good but that includes property disposal profits of £427m (which were ahead of the new annual target of £250m-£350m of property profits).
(20) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
Ricochet
Definition:
(n.) A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
(v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
(v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(2) Lateral repair of the aorta and pulmonary artery was performed as well as reinforcement of the posterior aortic wall which was weakened by the bullet as it ricocheted within the aorta.
(3) The etiology was the following: 34 wounds by knife, 3 due to ricocheted bolt and 16 by abdominal contusions.
(4) Everything started to unravel for Spurs a minute before half-time when Willian’s free-kick skimmed off Rose’s head, ricocheted off Dier and dropped invitingly for Terry.
(5) And then some suicidal defending almost allows Portland an opening goal, as a ricochet into the box is greeted by Hurtado and Gspurning both leaving it for each other before the keeper belatedly dives for it.
(6) Sagna won the header from a corner and the ball ricocheted off another play to Koscielny, who was standing three yards out.
(7) Amid everything else Bilic was not even asked about that moment, barely 70 seconds into the match, when the France midfielder Dimitri Payet clipped a free-kick into the penalty area and Cheikhou Kouyaté’s header flicked off Schmeichel’s glove, ricocheted off the inside of one post before striking the opposite side of the goal frame and, almost in slow motion, rebounding into the goalkeeper’s grateful arms.
(8) Ibrahimovic closed the City player down and he tried to clear his lines only for the ball to ricochet off the centre-forward and in for PSG’s equaliser.
(9) From the ensuing move the ball ricocheted off Chris Smalling, following a Bojan Krkic run, and into Steven Nzonzi’s path.
(10) They could afford to fluff their lines with Bournemouth’s own glimpses of goal sporadic, and invariably limited to chaotic ricochets in the penalty area, but those are the chances that may need to be taken in the matches against Liverpool, Manchester United and Stoke City after the international break.
(11) One of the officers fired warning shots and, in his words, one of the migrants was wounded by a ricochet and later died.” A regional prosecutor has launched an investigation while the other Afghan men in the group are currently in detention.
(12) As soon as the ricochet went against Gerrard, England were in trouble.
(13) Hernández had another sighting but, after a Michael Dawson tackle and a ricochet, Lloris gathered.
(14) Cudlipp recognised his new recruit's potential instantly, and gleefully sent him ricochetting about the world.
(15) The visitors mustered their first shot in the 31st minute, when a long-range effort from Ales Mertelj flew just over via a ricochet off Tom Carroll.
(16) Now, in the Arab ghettos, where in reality colonial rules still apply, people talk about le ricochet of the Kouachi brothers’ bullets: on Muslims in France and elsewhere.
(17) The ricochet fell into Lampard's path and suddenly David Forde in the Ireland goal was hopelessly exposed.
(18) They pulled level with the scrappiest of tries, Luke Robinson's grubber kick taking a series of ricochets before Danny Brough plunged on the loose ball between the posts.
(19) Since co-founding Shed Productions a decade ago, Gallagher has spearheaded the expansion of the group into Shed Media, acquiring and integrating other companies including Ricochet, Twenty Twenty and Wall to Wall.
(20) Steel nails that are bent are due to a ricochet and thus indicate accidental injury.