Whiffed in a sentence

Coby White missed the rim entirely on a whiffed 3-pointer on the first shot.

He whiffed the last five batters he faced before Clay Holmes took over in the eighth and finished it for a five-out save.

Then 11 minutes in, Rantanen shoveled a brilliant backhand pass through a Penguin’s legs to Byram, who was cutting in the middle of the slot but whiffed on the one-timer attempt.

There must be a film out there the Academy just completely whiffed on that deserved to sweep those categories.

After racing out of his net to clear a puck, he whiffed on it and Coyle fired in his 19th goal of the season.

Riley Heidt scored the lone Cougars goal in regulation taking a whiffed pass and putting the puck between the legs of Victoria netminder Jayden Kraus.

That was, until he whiffed on the empty-netter to complete the challenge.

A faint aroma can be whiffed of the starved corpses of the Kulaks of the Ukraine, of the peasants of the Great Leap Forward, of those brought to Cambodia’s killing fields.

Michael Jordan has whiffed many times on big men dating back to his time with the Wizards, so he could be reluctant to draft a promising 19-year old who played three games in college, however.

The combination of defensive brilliance and offensive ineptitude continued in the shootout: Michael Amadio had a largely open net in the second round but shot it into Andersen’s pad — and then Auston Matthews whiffed on the puck on the other end.

We all whiffed on that one,” said Mr. Amal Alamuddin.

While Halak had to contend with some legal interference from Ryan Dzingel’s stick in front, but it appeared he saw it all the way and just whiffed with the glove.

Janquart also whiffed the first batter of the seventh inning, but an error charged to Hanson allowed Escanaba shortstop Hunter Lancour to reach first.

Rodriguez whiffed two in the final frame to get the victory in relief.

After finishing in a bottom three spot in the league the past two seasons, Vancouver has whiffed on draft lottery luck and picked fifth overall in both 2016 and 2017.

Sacramento State’s Steven Moretto whiffed at a high fastball to even the count at 2-2.

Seattle has mostly whiffed the last 4 drafts so it’s hard to get excited about adding high picks.

With so many options, it seemed too unlikely that every household name would survive Thanos’ genocide…until the credits rolled and Marvel whiffed on its grandest opportunity to demonstrate some resemblance of a hidden backbone.

Gibson fouled off the first two pitches, then whiffed on the third. citationcitation When Paige told the story in his autobiography, he mythologized the story.