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Example sentences for "eight yards"

  • It was successfully captured, but the distance was short and the pigskin went to Brimfield on her thirty-eight yards.

  • Still gained two at left tackle and the half ended with the pigskin on Claflin's thirty-eight yards, the score 0 to 0.

  • After that, with the ball on the second's eight yards, the 'varsity should have scored easily.

  • Norton punted poorly, the ball going diagonally across the gridiron, and it was Claflin's first down on Brimfield's twenty-eight yards.

  • At the distance of two miles and a half from the last stone wall, is a stream on the north side, twenty-eight yards in width, and with some running water.

  • Morgan's had secured the ball by fair catch on her own thirty-eight yards after a poor attempt at a punt by Harris, and now she was turning Brimfield's right flank nicely.

  • Claflin failed to gain on two downs and punted short to midfield, where Carmine caught and eluded half the enemy before he was forced over the side line for a gain of eight yards.

  • Claflin regularly made from four to eight yards on three plays and then punted.

  • For Dick made the catch on his twenty-eight yards, and for once the interference was all he could have asked for.

  • In the first three minutes of the quarter Phillipsburg attempted a hopeless place-kick from the thirty-eight yards, but it landed far short, and after that her desperate forward-passes were always spoiled.

  • In eight downs Parkinson advanced to the enemy's twenty-eight yards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    eight bars; eight children; eight degrees; eight dollars; eight drops; eight leagues; eight months; eight pounds; eight states; eight times; eight volumes; eighteen months; eighteenth century; eighth century; eighth inch; eighths inch; eighty acres; eighty miles; eighty pounds; eighty years; hearted girl; into his; million marks; published his; sacred rites; this argument