pace off

Example Sentences

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“My strategy in the 1,600 was to pace off of whoever was leading,” said Valladares, a UC Davis commit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 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

However, players such as Petra Kvitova and Madison Keys, who tend to hit hard, flat strikes that will gather more pace off a lighter ball, have said they like the regular duty ones.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2022

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