Touchdown
"Touchdown" in a Sentence (16 examples)
In American football, a touchdown scores six points.
Touchdown!
Tom scored a touchdown.
Now that the line of scrimmage has been moved back to the 15-yard line, the extra point after touchdown is no longer a fait accompli.
A touchdown is worth 6 points.
To score a touchdown, a player must take the football into the opposite team's end zone.
India's ambitious mission to land an unmanned probe on the moon suffered a setback when its space agency lost contact with the landing craft minutes before it was to make a critical touchdown on the lunar surface.
Landing on the moon involves reducing the velocity at which the lander comes down to ensure a touchdown so soft that it prevents damage, tilting or crashing.
The crowning of a pawn in chess is more valuable than the touchdown in football.
Tom scored the game-winning touchdown.
Today I scored my first touchdown.
“I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009. “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise. I wasn’t all that fast.”
A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no[…]
The American Red Cross sent me to Alabama within twenty-four hours of the tornado's touchdown, and I visited the communities of Oak Grove and Rock Creek four subsequent times.
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