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• A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.From the entry smash
• Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.From the entry ruffle
• In pickleball, a foot fault occurs when a player volleys a ball while in the kitchen, or non-volley zone.From the entry foot fault
• Foley scored with a right-footed volley from ten metres.From the entry right-footed
• How about the side-on volleyed crossfield pass with the outside of his right boot?2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian. From the entry crossfield
• Stephane Sessegnon levelled before half-time, acrobatically volleying in Zenden's corner from four yards.2011 May 14, Peter Scrivener, “Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2012. From the entry acrobatically
• Src worked by unleashing an indiscriminate volley of phosphorylation—throwing “on” dozens of molecular switches.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 359. From the entry phosphorylation
• The drop volley (figure 8.3) is a volley that is hit as a drop shot.2004, Carol Matsuzaki, Tennis Fundamentals, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry drop volley
• But the right-hand squad only wounded the unhit man at the next volley.2002, Mark Nesbitt, 35 days to Gettysburg, page 65. From the entry unhit
• When you find your opponent comfortably deep in the backcourt, do not forget the drop volley.2001, Nick Bollettieri, Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry drop volley
• The Illinois troops delivered a volley that sent the butternuts scampering back across the field.1958, Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville.. From the entry butternut
• The rapid handing out of the diplomas brought frequent applause—bits, spatters, volleys, as the case might be.1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 32, in Bertram Cope’s Year. From the entry spatter
• McTominay produced an acrobatic volley that simply took your breath away - and blew the roof off Hampden.2025 November 18, Scott McDermott, “Kieran Tierney stunner sends Scotland to first World Cup in 28 years before McLean does the…. From the entry blow the roof off
• The wing-back Rachel Daly smashed a volley goalwards from a cleared corner, but it was straight at Nnadozie.2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian. From the entry goalwards
• Crouch had earlier hopelessly miskicked an excellent volleyed chance from eight yards out after a delightful Pennant cross.2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport. From the entry hopelessly
• Raul Meireles volleyed over from 12 yards before Leon Britton blocked a close-range effort from Ramires as Chelsea started to press.2011 September 24, Aled Williams, “Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport. From the entry close-range
• Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC. From the entry fire
• After yet another mid-court volley error, Serena got so upset that she smashed her racquet deep into the clay court.2003, Dave Rineberg, Venus & Serena: My Seven Years as Hitting Coach for the Williams Sisters, Frederick Fell Publishers, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry racquet
• The quotemasters volley back and forth like Talmudic scholars, providing for every Soviet quotation an equal and opposite Soviet quotation.1984, Edward Zuckerman, The Day After World War III, page 247. From the entry quotemaster
• He had no power serve of his own, no backhand, no volley, no lob, no idea of pace or tactics.1961 January 13, Marshall Smith, “From Waif to a Winner, the Clown of the Courts”, in Life, page 99. From the entry serve
• Another volley brought down a half dozen more.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135. From the entry charger
• Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin, page 490. From the entry trenchful
• I got volleys of circular letters threatening to decharter our chapter or part of it if we didn't get subscriptions to the PALM.1922 MAY, CHAS. B. COOLIDGE, “WHAT THE PALM MEANS ΤΟ ΜΕ”, in THE PALM, volume XLII, number 2, THE ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY, page 119. From the entry decharter
• With the first volley Waziri fell.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135. From the entry charger
• Although he’s recently improved his serve and his volleys and possesses one of the best drop shots in the game, he is fundamentally a conservative, defensive player.2021 July 22, Park MacDougald, “All hail Novak Djokovic, king of anti-tennis”, in Washington Examiner. From the entry anti-tennis
• The others from the church across the street from Baca poured volley after volley into the door and window of the picket house where Baca was hiding.2012, Ann Lacy, Anne Valley-Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico, page 105. From the entry picket house
• Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 – 1 Arsenal”, in BBC. From the entry dash
• When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC. From the entry belter
• The Croatian controls on his chest before hitting a left-footed volley which swerves and moves in the air but ultimately drifts wide of the far post.2011 October 30, Evan Fanning, “Tottenham Hotspur v QPR - as it happened”, in The Guardian. From the entry swazz
• Fundamentalists fired volleys of Left Behind novels, in which Jesus returns to Earth to battle the Anti-Christ (whose day job was secretary general of the United Nations).2009 November 25, Nicholas D[onabet] Kristof, “The Religious Wars”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry anti-christ
• Four of us stood behind the baseline while two crouched at the net (expecting at any moment to get hit by an errant serve or mispunched volley).2006, Voices of the Armory, page P-110. From the entry mispunch
• A sudden pupaphobia overtook her as she watched the boy volley, step out, recompile a few new lines of code, step back in and volley again.2000, Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark: A Novel, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry pupaphobia
• Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.1992, Edward St Aubyn, chapter 5, in Bad News, London: Picador, published 2012, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry withdraw
• When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France.1968 September 6, “Spain: The Basque Rebellion”, in Time. From the entry gun down
• Neven Subotic hooked a volley wide after Ramsey inadvertently headed a Reus free-kick back into the danger zone, and Blaszczykowski was also off target when he met Kevin Grosskreutz's cross.2013 November 6, Chris Bevan, “Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport. From the entry inadvertently

Meaning of volley

1. noun The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
2. noun A burst or emission of many things at once.
3. noun The flight of a ball just before it bounces.

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How do you use volley in a sentence?

Volley is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.”

What is a short sentence with volley?

“volley of insults”

What does volley mean?

Volley means the simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.