Sentence examples for drawn game from inspiring English sources

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The striker was ruled out of Holland's draw with France on Wednesday after suffering a reaction during the drawn game at Highbury on Sunday.

(A day later, Mr. Ilyumzhinov told Russia's Interfax news agency the match "ended in a draw. I offered the drawn game. After all it is impolite to win when you're a guest").

With the match, they had lost the million Swiss francs, roughly $560,000, that UEFA gives to the winners of any such match, or even the half of it that a drawn game would have earned.

Here, instead of the drawn game that standard county cricket often peters out into, was a run-chase and a guaranteed result; a spectacle that even baseball-lovers could recognise as such.

It was one of those edge-of-the-cliff endings for the home side, where one mistake was certain to plummet them either to a drawn game – which would have felt like a loss – or to outright defeat.

While that idea might take a while to be realised, children like Prisha and Khushi, who have painted their names on the road next to a chalk drawn game of hopscotch, are happy to claim their piece of road paradise till noon, when the roaring traffic will wipe away all traces of an idyllic morning.

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Against masters of comparable strength, he played a great many drawn games.

Kasparov lost four out of the first nine games but then adopted a careful defensive stance, taking an extraordinarily long series of drawn games with the champion.

I think we've played better and only drawn games.

All three advocated changing the rules of chess to minimize the number of drawn games.

Davidson missed one of the drawn games through injury and broke down mid-match in another two.

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