goalpost

How To Use goalpost In A Sentence

• Indeed he helped to move the political goalposts. Times, Sunday Times
• You have changed the goalposts on us. Times, Sunday Times
• The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again.
• This may be true, but only because the goalposts have been moved. Times, Sunday Times
• The housing goalposts have been moved many times over the past 12 months. Times, Sunday Times
• For example, a delegation from Texas could go to California and show the Californians how to do some traditional Texas thing such as castrate a bull using only your teeth, and then the Californians could show the Texans how to rearrange their football stadiums in accordance with the principles of "feng shui" (for openers, both goalposts should be at the west end of the field). Dave Barry on Red and Blue States
• He could see only the hazy outline of the goalposts.
• The rafters at Goodison were soon reverberating, as was one of Charlton's goalposts when Beattie's angled shot rebounded from the woodwork.
• But even after Paraguay forward Fredy Bareiro scored off a carom from the goalpost in the 67th minute, Iraq pressed hard with substitute Razzaq Farhan scoring in the 83rd. USATODAY.com - Iraq's plucky soccer team loses chance for gold medal
• Having wasted years, they now want to move the goalposts and hope we don't notice. Times, Sunday Times