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Example sentences for "scrimmages"

Lexicographically close words:
scribing; scribit; scribo; scrim; scrimmage; scrimp; scrimped; scrimping; scrip; scripsi
  1. He had had several scrimmages with them on his trips through the mountains, and held them in such wholesome fear that he contrived to avoid a direct conflict.

  2. Loman obeyed like a lamb, only too glad to lose himself in the scrimmages and escape observation.

  3. The forwards work like one man, and, lighter weight though they are, command the scrimmages by reason of their good "packing.

  4. He said you were built with unusual strength in the back, and that many a hard tug in the football scrimmages had made you strong where you most need to be strong now.

  5. It may be just my luck to go down in one of the scrimmages and get a furlough in hospital.

  6. Some rough work in one of the scrimmages compelled me to withdraw one of the Harvard players from the game.

  7. After one of the games a newspaper said: "Old Gailey stands firm as the Eternal Calvinistic Faith, which he intends to preach when his football scrimmages are over.

  8. My muse has other things to sing of besides rallies and charges, scrimmages and drop kicks, touch-downs and passings.

  9. It always takes some time to understand the humour of a football-match from outside, and Jim's uncle and aunt consequently for a time could make nothing out of the constant succession of charges and scrimmages of which they were witnesses.

  10. The score is four to nothing in favor of Harvard; but the Yale team, smarting from defeat, throw themselves into the ever-recurring scrimmages with set faces.

  11. Once in a long interval when the ball gets dangerously near a goal, someone on the imperiled side kicks it half the length of the field, and the scrimmages are renewed.

  12. Suffice it to state that the scrimmages grow still more savage and earnest, and that a player from each side is obliged by the referee to retire from the field, because he has slugged an opponent.

  13. It does not do to let these little impromptu scrimmages simmer over long.

  14. The scrimmages were beautifully packed, and the quarter and half-backs were never off the spot.

  15. Indeed, it seemed doubtful whether from the last and toughest of these scrimmages the ball would ever emerge again to the light of day.

  16. A series of scrimmages followed, in the midst of which the ball gravitated back to the centre of the field.


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