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    Use "wicket" in a sentence

    wicket example sentences

    wicket


    1. runs for the fifth wicket


    2. Australia lost their first wicket of Hayden at a score of seventy and there was a


    3. Ish offered to be the wicket keeper, but Fred told him to stay at the slip


    4. My wicket got stuck in his


    5. The front door was made of tin with a bolt and a wicket to peek out


    6. He has taken 200 international wickets – 45 in Tests, 154 in ODIs where he is India's tenth highest wicket taker, and one wicket in Twenty20 Internationals


    7. Please, won"t you just give the scheme a trial? You"re on a winning wicket here, Mr Corringe


    8. At length, when he saw the virtue of sailing with the wind than swimming against the current, he felt that his fate had inexorably placed his wife’s fidelity on a sticky wicket


    9. A wicket opened in the gate and a black face peered through


    10. When Sarah’s turn came at the wicket, the ticket clerk listened with a wooden face as she asked for a one-way ticket to Montgomery and made her pay the fare before giving her the bus ticket

    11. Bill is in fine form as usual and decks Jason out in his pads, gloves, trousers, support, wicket keeping gloves and a brand new red leather cricket ball made to MCC regulations


    12. Seeing a security guard sitting in a hut at the entrance of a nearby warehouse compound, the policeman driving the patrol car rolled to it and stopped besides the wicket window of the hut to speak with the security guard


    13. That reading seemed to incense him and he looked darkly at the cook, visible through the service wicket opening of the adjacent kitchen


    14. And there was the last wicket left and we needed four runs in just one bowl


    15. Our Shivaji house won the match by one wicket


    16. Collecting his six silver coins and putting them in his belt purse, Ranulf then went to the next wicket to his right, where a young man gave him two large, sealed transparent plastic bags, themselves kept inside a larger bag containing ice cubes, to help preserve the food longer


    17. The excited children then lined up at the entrance wicket of the House of Fear, which actually looked more like the entrance of a dark tunnel


    18. After excusing himself, the cashier left his wicket and went to a private office located behind the service counter


    19. We won the toss and, with a sticky wicket from overnight rain, asked the visitors to


    20. that the wicket was too sticky

    21. wicket Vandre was told by his learned captain that as they were facing a five


    22. that evening, he should cautiously defend his wicket until stumps


    23. to the wicket with a string of expletives about my age, my mother's occupation and


    24. discuss that brilliant dismissal with the verbose and erudite wicket keeper who by


    25. striding to the wicket in a match against the visiting


    26. the next wicket fell


    27. Belief had returned by the time the second last wicket tumbled


    28. The sixth door is a wicket door [134] (bab khokha in Arabic)


    29. ‘This wicket door belongs to a Damascus house with a wide courtyard, and an old, unused well, lying to the left of the wicket


    30. “This wicket belongs to a Damascus house with a wide courtyard, and with an old well that is out of order lying to the left side of the wicket

    31. had his spell when I arrived at the wicket but their captain gave


    32. energies in saving his wicket, leaving the ball watching his off stump and avoiding flashy


    33. The wicket opened on a stone staircase, leading upward


    34. "How we got out of the Slough and through the Wicket Gate by resolving to be good, and up the steep hill by trying, and that maybe the house over there, full of splendid things, is going to be our Palace Beautiful


    35. Jo was through the last wicket and had missed the stroke, which failure ruffled her a good deal


    36. He gave a stroke, his ball hit the wicket, and stopped an inch on the wrong side


    37. I walked round the yard, and through a wicket, to another door, at which I took the liberty of knocking, in hopes some more civil servant might show himself


    38. After numberless windings, Dantes saw a door with an iron wicket


    39. spikes of the wicket when we descended the steps into the street


    40. When he reached the wicket of the Louvre, he turned to the left, galloped across the Carrousel, passed through the Rue SaintRoch, and, issuing from the Rue de la Michodiere, he arrived at M

    41. His valet looked at the visitors through a sort of wicket; and if their faces were unknown to him or displeased him, he replied that the abbe was not in Paris, an answer which satisfied most persons, because the abbe was known to be a great traveller


    42. Besides, whether at home or not, whether in Paris or Cairo, the abbe always left something to give away, which the valet distributed through this wicket in his master's name


    43. And, then, to be here so young! Oh, what larks!" Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket, against which one of the keepers was leaning


    44. Suddenly a voice was heard at the wicket


    45. Ah, my dear sir, you will see whether a Cavalcanti is to be treated like a common person!" And Andrea, gliding through the court like a black shadow, rushed out through the wicket, leaving his comrades, and even the keeper, lost in wonder


    46. On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket


    47. They had emerged upon this road through a narrow, barred wicket in a high wall a little lower down


    48. The wicket from which the pair had lately emerged was in the wall of this structure


    49. ’Tis the very Water-Gate o’ Life, the Wicket, an’ also the Workshop


    50. Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it

















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    Synonyms for "wicket"

    grille lattice wicket wicket door wicket gate hoop

    "wicket" definitions

    cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket


    a small arch used as croquet equipment


    small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)


    small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted