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‘A volley can be fierce.’

[⟨det volley.n⟩ fierce.a]

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George’s fierce volley cannoned back off the bar for Arsenal, and both Clarke and Lorimer struck the woodwork for Leeds.
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He also scored the winning goal in a league game against Denizlispor with a fierce volley from outside the box.
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They unleashed a fierce and unexpected volley directly into the faces of the fusiliers, killing 90 in the blink of an eye and breaking their advance.
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In the British National Corpus:

Leishman came close to scoring his hat-trick with another fierce volley which went just wide and a header which was brilliantly saved by Gary Mitchell.
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A Bernardo Corradi header was flapped out for Zambrotta’s fierce volley into the roof of the net in the 89th minute while Italy won the game by 4 – 0.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There was a scare for Villa when Asgeir Asgeinsson connected sweetly with a fierce volley but the shot flew a couple of feet wide and that was to be the visitors final chance.
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In the British National Corpus:

The ball eluded Winterburn, and Ritchie, Oldham’s leading goalscorer, chested the ball down and crashed a fierce volley beyond Lukic.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The towering Ibrahimovic forced a difficult save after Ronaldinho in the 25th minute called his compatriot Julio Cesar to a prodigious dive to deflect his fierce volley.
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In Wikipedia:

The infantry met the Rangers with a fierce volley that wounded and killed several and forced most of the rest to fall back.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Just before the interval Danish keeper Thomas Sorensen did well to keep out a fierce volley from Xavi Hernandez.
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Queried on 2013-05-23.