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"free throw" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a basketball shot taken from the free-throw line. For example: "The player was able to make the free throw and the team was able to take the lead."
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free throw
noun
A shot, worth one point, taken from the free-throw line and without opposition.
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Free throw shooting.
Leonard's first free throw?
"It's a free throw".
Second free throw.
Howard made the winning free throw.
He then sank a free throw.
Similar(13)
"They went to the free-throw line.
Where is the free-throw line?
It's not free-throw shooting".
X-Factor: Dwight Howard's free-throw shooting.
(Free-throw efficiency was another story).
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