Sentence examples for successive play from inspiring English sources

Director Laurie Sansom pulls each successive play closer to our time – in the first, under traditional costumes, we get glances at modern shoes; by the third we have a mishmash of the traditional and the firmly contemporary.

On two successive play-action plays, Testaverde completed short passes to Anderson.

Anyway Ronaldo accepts a third successive play-off is on the cards.

After successive play-off finals there, the manager now has an FA Cup final in his sights.

Surely, however, they will be desperate to go straight up having now failed to progress from seven successive play-off campaigns.

They were denied in two successive play-off semi-finals but a thrilling 3-2 win over Halifax in last season's final finally earned promotion.

Do any other players have any similar juxtaposed records for winning and losing certain competitions?" "If Blackpool beat West Ham in the Championship play-off, then Scott Dobbie will have won three successive play-off finals (Blackpool, Swansea, then Blackpool again)," says Brian Cloughley.

Harlequins did not just lose their Premiership title in this switchback semi-final; they had it ripped from their possession expertly and mercilessly by Leicester Tigers who in reaching their ninth successive play-off final have surely never hit the home straight in finer fettle than they are now.

Just before intermission, the Giants' defense stopped Philadelphia for no gain on three successive plays, forcing the Eagles to punt from their 4-yard line.

However, it is suggestive of a deeper malaise when two successive plays on this one subject both end up presenting the same uninterrogated point of view.

"Of course," he said, "nothing could be better for a young player to cause a fumble and recover a fumble on successive plays".