NOUN
- a line from which basketball players take penalty shots
- lines through 1st and 3rd base indicating the boundaries of a baseball field
- a line across a bowling alley that a bowler must not cross
How To Use foul line In A Sentence
- She put back a missed shot, assisted on a basket by Kalana Greene, drilled a three-pointer from the top of the key, nailed a jumper from the foul line and then scored on a drive. Perfect again: Moore, UConn stop Stanford for women's title
- Should I be guarding closer to the third sack and the foul line?
- Let me try it, Pez. obama pulling off a 360 dunk from the foul line – epic fail Think Progress » Texas Education Agency Slams Fox News’s Fearmongering About The State’s Social Studies Curriculum Changes
- In addition to scoring 16 points, sinking 8 of 10 from the foul line, grabbing 10 rebounds and blocking 4 shots, McGee made sure Hibbert was never able to establish a rhythm, rendering the second-year player who starred collegiately at Georgetown a virtual nonfactor. JaVale McGee keeps Roy Hibbert in check
- With bowling shoes, you're relying on them to give you a good slide up to the foul line.
- - raises dust, methodically erasing and re-erasing the back line of the batter's box, and chews and spits and touches his crotch to make sure it's still there, the white foul lines stretch and stretch, way out to where forever might be, and the orange-yellow smoke curls into the night and the blood rushes down the Oriental man's head his bandanna is a swaying burgundy lagoon with floating Chinese characters. The Daily Iowan - Online Edition
- I had this calm sense come over me as I was getting up to walk towards the alley, towards, towards the foul line.
- Ford hit a buzzer-beater from the foul line, reserve guard Fred Jones scored a season-high 23 points and the injury-riddled Raptors held off a determined Elton Brand down the stretch to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 98-96 Wednesday night. USATODAY.com - Basketball - Toronto vs. L.A. Clippers
- On July 12, Gibson gave up just three hits in a win over Houston, but one was Denis Menke's seventh-inning blooper that landed just inside the left field foul line and plated a run.
- One odd note: he doesn't dribble the ball at the foul line.
