off the point
Example Sentences
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The Mariners got a bit of a scare when Suarez took a 91-mph fastball off the point of his elbow and crumpled to the ground in pain.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
We are some way off the point when online performers won’t even feel the need to look for a TV gig.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2018
Former Duck Shea Theodore knotted the game at 1-1 when he skated off the point and fired a shot high to the stick side of Gibson at the 17:50 mark of the first period.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2017
Liles stepped off the point and met the puck as it bounced out from the boards, hammering a shot past Jonathan Quick’s glove.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2011
A bolt of lightning ricocheted off the point and blasted the ghosts to ions, leaving a smoking crater where the sand fountain had been.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
