Sentence examples for career leg from inspiring English sources

It was through playing for Scotland that led to a first of two career leg breaks when he was carried off against Portugal in 1993.

America's armed forces play a similar role of giving a career leg-up to the disadvantaged.

By the time he made it to Boston on his last career legs, the rookie Larry Bird and the Celtics were still a year away from the winner's circle.

The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Boston Bruins have not met in the playoffs in 21 years, but you would not know from the simmering resentment Bruins fans feel toward the Penguins about Ulf Samuelsson's hit during the 1991 playoffs that left Cam Neely with a career-shortening leg injury and Matt Cooke's blindside hit during the 2009-10 season that gave Marc Savard a career-shortening concussion.

The marriage proved short-lived; the career had legs.

The Value of Williams Jayson Williams's retirement because of a career-ending leg injury had been rumored for months.

The singer came to see him at a US gig and bestowed a few wise words, afterwards, as to how he might build a career with legs.

Mr. Williams suffered a career-ending leg injury in April 1999, a few months after signing a six-year, $86 million contract with the Nets.

George returns to the NBA a mere seven months after suffering what seemed to be a potentially career-altering leg fracture during a warm-up game for the Fiba Basketball World Cup.

The league determined that the Nets missed the deadline to apply for the exception for center Jayson Williams, who retired June 28 because of a career-ending leg injury originally sustained in April 1999.

These may be the last days of Yorke's career, the legs may be going, but the old playboy is still with us - and his smile, afterwards, was wide.