Sentence examples for defend a play from inspiring English sources

"They would defend a play beautifully in a game, and later the same play would go for 7 or 8 yards.

But if someone says something that makes me crazy, like, "That show is stupid," I may try to defend a play by asking a few questions or talking about its merits.

"You organise a team to defend a set play, to be coherent, to hold the line, and then there is a person who does not do his job.

Mark Robins, Huddersfield manager: "We did not defend a set play and that has cost us the point we had.

"We couldn't defend a set play and it made the last six or seven minutes a lot edgier than it should have been.

They clinched the division Sunday despite losing to the Eagles, but can they defend a championship playing as they did Sunday and playing without Burress?

Before his team fell to Syracuse on Thursday, Crean agreed with his players that they needed to change the way they defended a particular play.

Study the diagramed deal and decide whether you would like to play or defend a six-club contract, with best play and defense.

For the past three weeks "Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,' " a play addressing the plight of British citizens imprisoned at Guantánamo, has had sell-out crowds at a 240-seat theater in north London that specializes in political theater.

Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the Alabama lawyer who defends a black man (played by Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a white woman.

McConaughey assumed the lead, a lawyer defending a black man (played by Samuel L. Jackson) accused of the murder of the two white men who had raped his daughter, in the John Grisham adaptation A Time to Kill (1996).