Deflecting in a sentence

A flowing move cut open the Liverpool defence and ended with Gabriel Jesus’s shot deflecting just over.

Aside from deflecting Aizen's attacks with his bare hands, Ichigo also unlocked the ultimate version of Getsuga Tenshou.

Attack these parts by deflecting their critical blows, performing martial arts, and directly aiming Wizardry Spells at them.

For Mr. Sunak, the furor may have had an unintended dividend — deflecting scrutiny of a policy that, while popular with his Conservative base, contains provisions that are likely to draw criticism on human rights grounds.

It made little difference to Sanderson, who thrashed Arshdeep Singh twice to the cover fence, but Wes Agar duly provided the breakthrough – albeit in unusual fashion, deflecting Sanderson’s drive onto the stumps to run out Taylor at the non-striker’s end.

Matty Daly then produced a tidy turn on the edge of the box, and the attack culminated in Foulds' effort deflecting behind.

On a visit to her childhood home, Amy laments that she’s filled with “generations of bad decisions sitting inside” her—though “Beef” smartly leaves open the possibility that Amy may be deflecting the blame for her personality flaws onto her upbringing.

United couldn't clear the ball away, with Frenchman's swivelling strike deflecting past the goalkeeper.

Your best work has always been with someone else doing all of the talking and heavy lifting and deflecting attention.

Both times he ducked the question and even made a desperate attempt at a joke about a reporter's tie, aimed at deflecting attention away from himself.

Cruz began deflecting and evading at a level that would make any dodgeball champ jealous.

He lashed Zempilas for deflecting to Liberal leader Libby Mettam when asked by the ABC for his position on Labor’s firearms reforms last week.

He said the entire narrative of the attack is a fabrication aimed at discrediting the BJP while deflecting attention from the electoral challenges facing Deshmukh’s son.

It’s always about the reputation of the man and protecting that by making the cause invisible, or deflecting onto something else, like their status, or who they’re related to.

McDavid then scored twice in the final frame, deflecting in a cross-zone pass from Evan Bouchard on one and waiting out the Rangers defense on the other.

Mistakenly using the word racist actually wound up deflecting from the homophobic aspects of the opinion Michelle was claimed to express.

The Voodoos then doubled their lead near the midway mark of the proceedings when Mason Rotondo clicked in close by deftly deflecting a Justin Rousseau feed high over Helkie’s glove.

Today, this column is forced to turn readers’ attention again to the charade of deflecting the governance responsibility for violent crime, particularly with the spy, quadruple murder and Valsayn fatal child abuse reports dominating last week’s headlines.

After Seguin won a face-off to the left of Allen, John Klingberg flung the puck from inside the blue line, hitting Seguin’s stick in the circle and deflecting in off the Blues’ Colton Parayko.

He uses a training remote and a visor that blocks his eyesight to learn how to tap into the Force and predict attacks before they happen, deflecting them with a lightsaber.