carom

How To Use carom In A Sentence

• As Appling reached down for the ball, it took a bad hop and caromed off his shoulder.
• But the ball caromed off a tree and bounced back into a bunker, leaving a shot at the green.
• It hit the leftfield wall, caromed around the outfield, and the left fielder picked up the ball.
• Because it's almost as wide as the Taconic State Parkway, I thought I ran an even greater risk than usual of caroming off the roadway's guardrails and rock faces and spending the rest of my life in hock as I tried to repay Range Rover for the repairs. Driving Like the Other Half
• The long stick, which reminded some early users of a tail, can be used to make a ball hit another ball in a form of the game known as carom billiards, played with only three balls by real hustlers on a table with no pockets. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
• The ball tended to carom off those thick flagsticks, too.
• I decided to make a "carom" of it, and nearly took the heads off a pair of horses, and the pole off the omnibus to which they were attached, as I dashed through. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
• But even after Paraguay forward Fredy Bareiro scored off a carom from the goalpost in the 67th minute, Iraq pressed hard with substitute Razzaq Farhan scoring in the 83rd. USATODAY.com - Iraq's plucky soccer team loses chance for gold medal
• With five seconds left, James missed a free throw, which caromed off to the left side.
• A carom was a strike and a rebound that hit another ball. City of Glory