A Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket.
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Examples for "jai alai"
Examples for "jai alai"
1The on-site jai alai court is only cleaned twice a day.
2And Woody was so quick: talking to him was like playing jai alai.
3Talking with Woody was like playing a game of jai alai.
4The Basques are great hand-ball players - a jai alai court is impossible in their clubhouse.
5Basques played jai alai, a game for lightning reflexes, better than any other people in the world.
1In the Basque country where it originated, it is called pelota.
2His replies came back sharp and swift as a pelota from a cesta.
3Ramuntcho goes to the cider mill which the smugglers and pelota players frequent.
4One wall of the church is used for playing pelota, the Basque racket game.
5Smuggler and pelota player,-twothings which go well together and which are essentially Basque.
6It's an occasion as uniquely Ashleyian as pelota is Basque.
7Dochak immediately flung a pelota at Kitarak, who easily raised a shield to fend it off.
8Bonus points if you play basque pelota.
9It is the hour when the games are to begin, the dances, the pelota and the fandango.
10The Plaza Euskara is the great court where the Basques play their national game of "pelota."
11A pelota player like you, you should know, was made to please him, in his mind there is nothing superior to that-
12I have used the Spanish word "pelota," but it merely means "ball," just as the Russian word "soviet" means nothing in the world but "council."
13The Hbs1lKO mice similarly demonstrate diminished Pelota levels that were rescued by proteasome inhibition.
14Pelota is a hard, fast game, and sometimes serious injuries result from playing it.
15Pelota is certainly a most interesting game to watch, owing to the uncanny skill of the players.
16"Uncle Ramon-doyou ever play Pelota?"