How To Use broken-field In A Sentence
- Their dazzling broken-field running overcame a committed effort from the league leaders. Times, Sunday Times
- The passage describes the climactic moment in a football game, just as the halfback is breaking away for a long, broken-field run.
- Not in the least winded, Anderson segued into John Coltrane's "Central Part West," a cooled-down proposition not without a segment so challenging that Anderson's fleet tooting brought to mind an amazing display of broken-field running. David Finkle: Every Street's a Jazz Boulevard in Old New York
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- During that stretch, he completed nine of nine passes for 72 yards, and his broken-field running kept USC guessing. USATODAY.com - On the biggest stage, Vince Young delivers for Texas
- Chris Paterson's qualities, to my mind, have always been best shown in broken-field play and to date he has failed to dominate in most of his outings in the pivotal position of 10.
- He almost had his helmet ripped from his head at third, and he sent one overzealous fan sprawling during his broken-field run toward the plate.
- But the slow-moving crowd of idlers in the crooked street forced them to weave in and out like broken-field runners in a football stadium. Golden State
- The young man is Duddy Kravitz, a Sammy Glick by any other name, but a broken-field runner rather than one with his eye on the long distance crown. Waiting for "Barney" (Mordecai Richler's version)
- They stood looking at each other until one boy stuck out his arms for balance and hopscotched in gaps between the stones from one side to another like a broken-field runner.
