Sentence examples for free throw from inspiring English sources

"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.

Exact(47)

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.

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"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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