(n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(3) They'd started so well, too, winger Oreste Corbatta putting Argentina ahead after three minutes in the 1958 groups, but the 1954 hero Helmut Rahn scored twice in an eventual 3-1 win for West Germany.
(4) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(5) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(6) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
(7) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(8) Roma are close to a deal for the Fiorentina winger Adem Ljajic and Tottenham's hopes of taking Lamela appear to hinge on it being finalised.
(9) The repositioning of Ashley Young is particularly intriguing given that Sir Alex Ferguson uses him as a right-footed left-winger at Manchester United.
(10) He replied tersely: “Di María is a fine player but we would still have won that game.” Martino called his winger “one of the five best players in the world” and said his country had missed him sorely in the final.
(11) Indeed, as Wilfried Zaha sashayed beyond Debuchy and company, Pardew must have braced himself for an equaliser – only for Tim Krul to brilliantly divert the winger's ensuing shot for a corner.
(12) The winger Balazs Dzsudzsak is the side’s only star.
(13) Should he head for the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, Spurs may offer his dressing-room peg to the Swiss striker Josip Drmic , a right-winger and striker who has scored 15 times for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, including both goals in the crucial win over Stuttgart last night.
(14) Although Crouch had possible claims for a penalty in each half, Stoke's best chance came when Marko Arnautovic sent Oussama Assaidi clear only for a poor first touch to let down the winger, on loan from Liverpool.
(15) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
(16) Chelsea’s Diego Costa strikes at the last to deny Manchester United Read more That said, the width wasn’t provided in the conventional manner: Van Gaal fielded no touchline-hugging wingers, and instead fielded players who drifted inside into central positions.
(17) All inventive incision, the winger's arrival reinvigorated a suddenly possession-monopolising City.
(18) The England winger has been training with the under-21s for the past two and a half months after being frozen out by Mauricio Pochettino in the wake of his public spat with Nathan Gardiner, Tottenham’s fitness coach, following a win against Aston Villa in November.
(19) "I've always felt wingers, more than any type of player, can change a game," he says.
(20) Arjen Robben One of the best wingers in the world and a pleasure to watch.
Winner
Definition:
(n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
(2) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(3) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(4) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(5) He told FA.com: “In my opinion, we were worthy winners.
(6) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(7) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(8) Their brutality seems to have been fairly even-handed, or if it wasn't, the men surely suffered enough not to be presented as the winners of the atrocity.
(9) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
(10) I think if anyone was to explain it in those terms, the savings for the taxpayer, fewer potential victims, this I think would be a vote winner.
(11) The agency notes, too, that the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has form when it comes to announcing peace prize winners early, saying last year the EU had triumphed an hour before the official announcement.
(12) Uche, 31 and an African Nations Cup winner with Nigeria in 2013, has joined Tigres from Villarreal where he scored more than 30 goals in three seasons, having previously played for Recreativo Huelva, Getafe, Real Zaragoza and Granada.
(13) The winner will play either Roger Federer or Milos Raonic in Sunday’s final.
(14) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(15) Results indicate that the effects of competitively structured environments differ for winners and nonwinners and for boys and girls.
(16) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
(17) When Thiago Alcântara was a kid, he had everything he needed at home – a ball, a table, some chairs and a World Cup winner.
(18) There would never be a meeting in a darkened room where a winner was chosen just to fit an audience demographic or to create more entertaining telly.
(19) Level on points with an Atlético Madrid side containing a young Fernando Torres on the final day, a Hugo Morales winner fired the island club, and Benítez, into the big time.
(20) It gave Liverpool a headache as they already had fixtures to rearrange thanks to the European Cup Winners' Cup campaign - plus a win would have put them top of the league, at least until Newcastle and Manchester United met later that day.