seam

Example Sentences

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Thirty-six wickets fell in six sessions in the showpiece Boxing Day match, with excessive seam movement on offer for pace bowlers.

From BBC

Page and his team left 10 millimetres of grass on the wicket, providing fast bowlers with excessive seam movement and bounce which made batting treacherous.

From Barron's

On the eve of the match Australia skipper Steve Smith said the pitch was "quite furry, quite green" and predicted movement off the seam.

From BBC

"It is not rocket science. The pitch wasn't seaming everywhere, it was just holding a little bit – that's why England won the toss and had a bowl."

From BBC

Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams.

From The Wall Street Journal