parry
Example Sentences
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The visitors then took the lead five minutes later as Centonze pounced on weak parry by Geronimo Rulli to open the scoring from close range.
From Barron's
Moving to his left, Smith got both hands to the ball, only to parry in the direction of the slips, who could not grab the rebound.
From BBC
Then we decide whether to dodge, parry, or counterattack.
From Literature
The precocious girls soon cotton on to the headmistress’s ruse and parry her appeals to dish on Miss Brodie.
The spot-kick was ordered to be retaken for encroachment inside the area and Haaland struck his second effort the opposite direction, only for it to be parried away again by Peretz.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
