ADVERB
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toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field
he caught the ball and ran downfield 15 yards
ADJECTIVE
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toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field
he threw to a downfield receiver
How To Use downfield In A Sentence
- This also limits his ability to make downfield blocks on linebackers.
- he caught the ball and ran downfield 15 yards
- QB Trent Green must recognize when the Colts' safeties creep up to the line, then look for TE Tony Gonzalez downfield.
- Dilger doesn't hesitate to sell out on a block downfield or on the line.
- For me, the big moment of "The Big Picture" was standing in front of Pollock's shimmering, lacertine labyrinth "One: Number 31, 1950," and looking downfield at David Smith's "Australia" 1951. A Retrospective's Tale of Two Cities
- Moss attacks vertically, using his speed to streak downfield and his size and leaping ability to snatch passes away from defenders.
- The downfield resonance is attributed to molecules (mostly DCPC) on the highly curved region of the bicelle torus.
- He can pull on running plays and screens and get downfield to throw a block.
- Of course, it doesn't hurt that Olbermann's delivery is quite simply the best in broadcast journalism, but he also had something to say, and he said it and he meant it and he didn't give a damn about the inevitable sniping from the sidelines, he was taking that ball all the way downfield. -
- The running game has been ineffective because of injuries and poor blocking, and the receivers don't have the speed to make the downfield passing game a threat.
