Get Free Checker

How To Use Touchback In A Sentence

  • The second was also risky, as Stanley had not shown his regular touch, and a touchback would have only resulted in a net 11 yards.
  • A touchback is when you down the ball inside your own endzone when you are a returner or defender. Matthew Yglesias » “Touchback”
  • It included high fines, a pointless, punitive "touchback" requirement and new restrictions on family unification, among other problematic provisions. PubliCola Video and Photos from Saturday’s Immigration Reform Rally « PubliCola
  • He has posted 12 touchbacks and has become adept at pushing the ball to one side or the other to reduce the running room for return men.
  • A touchback is when the other team punts or kicks it into your endzone and you choose to take the ball on the twenty yard line rather than attempt a return. Matthew Yglesias » Tagging Up
Enhance Your English Writing Skills
Fix common errors and boost your confidence in every sentence.
Get started
for free
Enhance Your English Writing Skills
  • * The Colts a strong drive to open the second half and get it after the touchback, which is a good thing considering two returns had already failed to reach the 20. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • DOBBS: You have what's called a touchback provision. CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007
  • Watson nearly caused a touchback, as the ball narrowly missed the endzone on its way out of bounds.
  • They would then, at some point, have to leave the United States, what's known as a touchback program, return to their country of origin, to reapply for a visa. CNN Transcript May 16, 2007
  • A touchback is when the ball is downed in the end zone. Matthew Yglesias » “Touchback”
  • Against Seattle last week, the Jaguars had four kick-offs go for touchbacks and pinned the Seahawks inside the 10-yard line on consecutive possessions.
  • It's got this so-called touchback which is really just -- there's sort of a sham little way of going it, but it rewards those who are illegally here and says that America is no longer going to enforce its immigration policies with the fact that we're not going to allow people to have citizenship. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2007
  • Step two, sometime within eight years, heads of households would have to go back to their home country, something called the touchback provision. CNN Transcript May 22, 2007
  • The ball was knocked out of his hand at the two-yard line and recovered by the Bengals for a touchback.
  • There's huge financial penalties, compared to the incomes of most of these folks, and then they have the so-called touchback provision, which means that they've got to go back to the country that they came from in order to apply. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):