How To Use Gridiron In A Sentence
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This provided too good an opportunity for the wits of the town to miss, and they promptly renamed the house as the Goose and Gridiron, which recalls the facetious landlord who, on gaining possession of premises once used as a music-house, chose for his sign a goose stroking the bars of a gridiron and inscribed beneath, "The Swan and Harp.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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But with the football season winding to a close, fantasy owners' minds have started turning from the gridiron to the diamond, from the pigskin to the horsehide.
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What's interesting to me here is the importance of sport to Americans and Brits, particularly football - gridiron and/or soccer.
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Once a collegiate football superstar destined for gridiron greatness until an auto accident ended his athletic career, David now slogs through his dull gray day-to-day, a real nowhere man living in a nowhere land.
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Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft.
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
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Young, gifted and black, Jordan was the perfect role model for a generation of young black men, and sent basketball rocketing ahead of baseball and into competition with gridiron as America's game of choice.
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It doesn't much resemble the game that we have been watching for the past 20 weeks on NFL gridirons, but that doesn't mean that the players are playing hard.
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For 118 years, the sitting president nearly always has had the last laugh with closing remarks at an annual white-tie wingding called the Gridiron Club dinner.
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They had seen those young gladiators from the rival towns lock horns, and struggle excitedly for supremacy upon the flat gridiron marked stretch of ground, cheering for one or the other side without prejudice, as their fancy chanced to dictate; but that was not like feeling the brunt of a rush, or trying to outgeneral a swiftly running player with the ball, heading for a touchdown.
Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums
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They laid the prisoner on the gridiron.
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The baking being once over, the sowans pot succeeds the gridiron, full of new sowans, which are to be given to the family, agreeably to custom, this day in their beds.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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A former wrestler and gridiron player in Canada, he moved to Britain to study at Oxford University, where he earned three blues and a degree in history.
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The open floor, while it gives air and ventilation, has also its disadvantages, for solid and liquid refuse is thrown through it so conveniently that the ground under the house is apt to contain stagnant pools and heaps of decomposing matter, and men lying asleep on mats on these gridirons have sometimes been stabbed with
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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It is curious, by the way, that the gridiron plan should have gone on so long.
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It was very difficult to get down the steep, slippery bank, into a precarious canoe which I could not see, and so thick was the darkness that I sat down in the water between the two gridirons, and had to remain there during the crossing, which took a long time, being against the stream.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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For many small, regional colleges facing a bleak admissions landscape, the gridiron is a beacon of hope.
Small colleges find that adding football pays off in a lot of green, and more
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Giants TE Jeremy Shockey was named the NFL's Rookie of the Year Wednesday, capping off a season in which his production on the field was often overshadowed by his antics off the gridiron.
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It was like a gridiron football confrontation -- with one man naked.
THE SCAR
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But with the football season winding to a close, fantasy owners' minds have started turning from the gridiron to the diamond, from the pigskin to the horsehide.
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Why what on airth is the meanin of this, said the Captain, why dont they haul down that damn goose and gridiron (thats what he called our eagle and stars on the flag.)
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
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Until the rise of professional gridiron football in the 1950s it had no rival.
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For nine years Esera Tuaolo played in the National Football League, running onto gridirons to the roar of thousands of fans.
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In 1730 Harrison visited London, taking with him his gridiron pendulum and the grasshopper escapement which he had developed, and there he learnt exactly what was required to win the longitude prize.
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Fret not, gridiron fans - college football returns in a little over seven months, and a dozen teams already look like contenders…
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We look on baseball and gridiron as the quintessential American sports, but in truth these days, all sports are American sports.
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It was like a gridiron football confrontation -- with one man naked.
THE SCAR
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As a result, he has given ordinary guys who share his love for the sport a chance to be gridiron legends.
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Put on the great gridiron this moment, [an oath or a curse at every word:] make up a roaring fire -- the cleaver bring me this instant -- I'll cut her into quarters with my own hands; and carbonade and broil the traitress for a feast to all the dogs and cats in the neighbourhood, and eat the first slice of the toad myself, without salt or pepper.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
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Tacket, rummaged among trenchers and dishes, snatched pots from the fire, and placed pans and gridirons on it, accompanying her own feats of personal activity with such a continued list of injunctions to Tibb, that
The Monastery
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They were the spoils of gridiron warfare, and giving them up would be the same as giving up his identity.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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And that's too bad, when you recall the class and comparative refinement of such gridiron heroes as Barry Sanders and Emmett Smith and how they comported themselves following a score.
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[GridIron] published test results indicate that a 60 second NTSC broadcast was compressed from a raw file size of 923 Mbytes to an MPEG4 encoded file of 13 Mbytes — a 98.75% reduction in size.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Video Encoding Via Grid Computing
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He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff.
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The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron.
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In small communities like the one in which I was raised generations of former gridiron warriors fill the bleachers to watch their sons and grandsons battle the descendants of their own regional foes.
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Players knocked unconscious on the gridiron are often hit in the same vulnerable area of head.
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'Bekase I'm starvin' with the hunger, 'says I."'And sure, bad luck to you,' says he, 'you couldn't eat a gridiron,' says he, 'barrin' you were a _pelican o 'the wildherness_,' says he.
Stories of Comedy
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Formed 20 years ago in Colchester, the Gladiators American football team will be pounding the gridiron for a match against the Essex University team, the Essex Blades.
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The NFL is filled with really bright people who have their lives in order and are interested in just doing a good job and pursuing excellence on the gridiron.
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A finer man and a better coach never hit these United States, and a finer bunch of boys, never graced the gridirons of the Midwest, than that Iowa team in 1939.
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Across the sports world, from college pep rallies to the gridirons of the NFL, it ' s becoming the year of the Dougie.
What
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It is in America that the gridiron streetplan beloved of countless utopians has had its most rampant expression.
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If you're used to the pace of AFL or rugby union, then watching gridiron is like chess with helmets - lots of waiting around for five seconds of flurried activity.
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On closer examination the lots turn out to average less than four thousand square feet; the streets are narrow and are laid out in gridiron patterns; the houses are mere cabins; and what was once a pleasant bit of nature has been ruthlessly leveled and ripped up to make a subdivider's holiday.
Build and Be Damned
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The Few, the Proud, the Marines" is as much a part of the gridiron sideshow as Clydesdales.
Super Bowl ads: Not just about the beer anymore
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Since the 1960s, the gridiron, baseball field, basketball court, and boxing ring have spawned legions of entrepreneurs who sought to compete in the business arena.
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Tennis is in crisis in the US, and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the blanket coverage awarded to baseball, basketball and gridiron.
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He's concluded football players can suffer from trauma-induced organic brain disease that can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or what he calls gridiron dementia.
Undefined
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Despite appearing on the gridiron in only a trio of games, his numbers reflect the impact he can have on a game's outcome.
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If you're used to the pace of AFL or rugby union, then watching gridiron is like chess with helmets - lots of waiting around for five seconds of flurried activity.
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Davis, the halfback known as "Mr. Outside" was one of the few big-name players on the Army team who had gone directly to West Point from the gridirons of high school.
The Army-Navy Game Nobody Missed
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No longer content with ruling the wrestling world, McMahon embarked on a new ‘turf war,’ this time on the gridiron.
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Some were further guarded from prying eyes by sort of gridirons, politely called balconies, though, since the platform had been forgotten, and only the protecting railings were there hard up against the glass, the name was deceptive.
The Good Comrade
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And turn on the TV, I think that American gridiron Superbowl grand final is on today.
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So does the ironmongery — candle – boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries — because those things tell, and mount up.
David Copperfield
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He remedied this by the invention of what is often called the gridiron pendulum, made of several bars of steel and brass, and so arranged as to neutralize and correct the tendency of the pendulum to vary in length.
Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
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2K5 is no exception to this commemoration, and it includes some of the classic football moments ever seen on a gridiron.
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Gridiron players are taught to tackle head first, driving their facemask into the opponent's chest.
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He is the greatest quarterback in gridiron history.
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These days the vast majority of professional gridiron, and basketball teams in America employ cheerleaders, and there's no doubt that they are viewed by most players and fans as mere sex objects.
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Condensing the playoffs would also avoid competition with the World Series, National Football League games, and college gridiron games.
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Next month we take a look at athletes who have demonstrated business savvy by developing thriving enterprises while still making moves on the gridiron, baseball field, or basketball court.
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Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft.
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
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And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football.
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More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop.
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He was a black college athlete as gifted academically as on the gridiron.
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Men were lying on the gridirons smoking, women were preparing what might be the breakfast, and babies were crawling over the open floors, born with the instinct not to tumble over the edge into the river below.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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It has also become common practice in basketball, gridiron and other major sports in the United States.
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After the success of its gridiron coverage, Channel 4 turned its attentions to the subcontinent and the ancient Indian discipline kabaddi.
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All over America, gridiron fans sat on their couches, cracked open another Bud, and awaited the conclusion.
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Put on the great gridiron this moment, [an oath or a curse at every word:] make up a roaring fire — the cleaver bring me this instant — I’ll cut her into quarters with my own hands; and carbonade and broil the traitress for a feast to all the dogs and cats in the neighbourhood, and eat the first slice of the toad myself, without salt or pepper.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Are not the churches full of martyrs with choppers in their meek heads; virgins on gridirons; riddled
The Newcomes
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And if their skills can equal their enthusiasm and desire, you may be seeing more and more women on the gridiron catching touchdown passes instead of on the sidelines cheering on the players.
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He certainly is focused on being the best defensive end the game has ever known, but his life doesn't begin and end on the gridiron.
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gridirons"; there is a stream crossed by rugged little stone bridges.
The Cornwall Coast
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The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
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There has been a global trend for television rights to fetch lower prices in recent years, with News Corp. writing down the value of contracts for gridiron, Major League Baseball and Nascar.
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His name was on the gridiron at Westminster.
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But you can't deny this: He was the ultimate field general, moving his teammates across the gridiron as if they were chess pieces.
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They were the spoils of gridiron warfare, and giving them up would be the same as giving up his identity.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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Cutler is no stranger to the brutality of the gridiron, having strapped on a jock and shoulder pads during his salad days as a high-school football player.
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And so Canton, Ohio, an hour south of Cleveland - not all that far from Akron and the NEC World Golf Championship - is famed as the birthplace of professional gridiron football.
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As any fan will tell you, the greensward the game is played on -- marked with parallel white stripes -- is called a gridiron.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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For the remainder of his playing days, Barnes made notes and sketches at the end of each game about things he felt and saw on the gridiron.
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As any fan will tell you, the greensward the game is played on, marked with parallel white stripes, is called a gridiron.
Meathead Goldwyn: Lip Smackin' Pigskin Cracklins