(n.) The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
Example Sentences:
(1) Matt Schaub has done nothing so far today to persuade them otherwise, completeing 13 of 21 passes for 134 yards, no touchdowns and one interception.
(3) The Chiefs lost key running back Jamaal Charles to a suspected concussion early but it did not appear to affect KC as Alex Smith threw four touchdown passes and Knile Davis ran for a score to help the Chiefs to a 38-10 lead early in the third quarter of the wild card game.
(4) On Sunday, Foles did something that only six other players have achieved in NFL history, throwing for seven touchdowns in a single game as the Eagles obliterated the Oakland Raiders 49-20 .
(5) Peyton Manning won football's MVP award this season, broke Marino's 21-year-old record for most touchdowns in a season (49), and has thrown for more than 29,000 career yards, but all he has to show for it this morning is another playoff hangover administered by the New England Patriots' defense … The numbers are great, but all he really wants to be is Tom Brady."
(6) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(7) LeGarrette Blount provided more than half of those, rushing for 166 yards and four touchdowns to tie one franchise playoff record and break another.
(8) The kinematic analysis revealed non-significant results for hip, knee and ankle joint angles at touchdown for the various stride rates.
(9) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints When Drew Brees runs in for a touchdown in the fourth, that's pretty much end of the game.
(10) It touched a lot of us, it added fuel to our fire,” Mason, who raised his hands following a fourth-quarter touchdown, told the Associated Press after the Rams’ 52-0 win.
(11) Average movement velocity, foot velocity at touchdown, and body mass were variables demonstrating weak or nonsignificant correlations with the rearfoot parameters.
(12) The quarterback's passing figures – 22-of-33 for 287 yards and three touchdowns – are not to be sniffed at, but what truly stood out was his poise, the manner with which he hung in the pocket, keeping his eyes downfield to the last moment even when defenders were closing in around him.
(13) A trademark 40-yard touchdown run by Marshawn Lynch levelled the scores before San Francisco edged in front again when QB Colin Kaepernick passed to Anquan Boldin in the end zone.
(14) 7.28pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, 1:05, 2nd quarter 2nd and 5 on the Carolina 25, Kaepernick connects with Boldin for a 15 yard pass and only nine yards separate the 49ers from their first touchdown.
(15) "At the time I didn't think I was doing that great – I was really focused on the offensive side, where I was playing wide receiver and only caught one touchdown," Crawford told me last April.
(16) But now, it will be tough to take out Foles, who has 13 touchdown passes and no interceptions this season.
(17) Freshman kicker Cade Foster missed the attempt which fell into the arms of Auburn's Chris Davis who returned it from 109 yards for the game winning touchdown.
(18) 3.05am GMT Florida State 10-21 Auburn, :12, 2nd quarter The ruling on the touchdown is confirmed because duh.
(19) The purpose of this investigation was therefore to show whether the pronation angle and the torsion angle differ when running barefoot, with spikes, and with running shoes (forefoot touchdown, N = 9 left and right).
(20) Winston is on pace (190.1) to break quarterback Russell Wilson's record for best passer efficiency rating in a season and set Football Bowl Subdivision freshman records for yards passing (3,820) and touchdown passes (38).
Try
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.
(v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
(v. t.) To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
(v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
(v. t.) To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.
(v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.
(v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.
(v. t.) To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.
(v. t.) To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.
(v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.
(v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.
(v. i.) To do; to fare; as, how do you try!
(n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
(n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.
(v. t.) Refined; select; excellent; choice.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be nice if it was more ... but I am trying."
(2) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(3) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(5) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(6) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(7) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(8) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(9) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(10) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(11) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(12) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
(13) A complex of vitamins exerting a protective action on the system of coenzymic acetylation in the body have been tried.
(14) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
(15) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(16) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(17) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(19) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(20) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.