Sentence examples for a block tackle from inspiring English sources

"A block tackle", reckoned Motty, and so it was.

But he allows the ball to clank off his shin, giving Niedermeier time to bound across and get a block tackle in.

After a cagey opening spell, the visitors created the first real threat when Lawless chipped the ball into the box for Doolan but County full-back Mihael Kovacevic did well to get in a block tackle.

That's a block tackle, something you're taught at five years of age.

"It looked like a block tackle and it looks like he's come off second best.

He put in a block tackle and he knew straight away, so that was the dampener on a good result for us".

As Winterburn lunged into a desperate block tackle, Batistuta stretched to scorch a rising drive over David Seaman and into the far corner.

A solid Tim Swinson block tackle was required to thwart Craig Wing, while winger Fukuoka was often a handful down the left.

A pulley system is also called a block and tackle, where the pulleys are the blocks and the rope is the tackle.

They raised the beams with a block and tackle.

A block and tackle makes things easier still.