Sentence examples for scramble and a from inspiring English sources

And he remained in the lineup for three plays: a nine-yard completion, a short gain on a scramble and a designed quarterback sneak for a first down.

As paramilitary officers scramble, and a helicopter hovers overhead, Luther appears in the rain and the cold blue light with a tight grip on the perp's shoulder.

How about Steve McNair jousting two tacklers for a last-minute scramble and a 16-yard fling to Kevin Dyson in a shot at glory?

4.37pm GMT Goal! Wigan 1-1 Crystal Palace (Wilbraham) A corner, a bit of a goalmouth scramble and a scrappy piece of play ends with a goal for Palace.

It was also canteen day, when the Sister of the ward went with a large clothes basket to the canteen and returned with tins of biscuits, which were not for us, and tins of sweets, which were thrown in handfuls into the middle of the dayroom, prompting a lively scramble and a few black eyes and bleeding noses.

The Robins survived a goalmouth scramble and a half-volley from Cheek before the break.

Fred Herzog picked up a loose ball from a scramble and sank a short bank shot with one second left to give Fordham the M.A.A.C. victory.

First there was a mad scramble, and then an inquisitive tangent, followed by a headlong dash to the finish.

The Riot Act was read, the militia scrambled, and a man was killed – events that went straight into Felix Holt.

Plans were quickly scrambled and a surgery was scheduled.

A threshold of p<0.01 was used for the contrasts between the most dissimilar conditions (emotional > scrambled and emotional < scrambled) and a threshold of p<0.05 was used for contrasts between more similar conditions (emotional > neutral and emotional < neutral).