Sentence examples for to touchdown from inspiring English sources
noun
A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
- Today I scored my first touchdown.
Five minutes to touchdown.
From leadpenny at 9 01: 15 minutes to touchdown.
From leadpenny at 9 08: Seven minutes to touchdown.
We ended up sitting together flying home, counting the hours to touchdown in the world.
Then the rover's cocoon of airbags inflated, with only eight seconds to touchdown.
About two minutes to touchdown, the parachute opened at an altitude of 5.3 miles.
Dale Ferguson nipped in to touchdown and Danny Brough added the conversion for a 6-0 lead.
It was six minutes to touchdown 437 miles downrange at the 100-mile-wide Gusev crater, near the Martian equator.
Spirit plunged into the upper Martian atmosphere at an altitude of 73 miles, with six minutes to touchdown.
Jay Cutler is a difficult quarterback to root for, with a rather high sulk-to-touchdown ratio, but the Bears get plenty of scoring from their defense, which makes up for the team's offensive inconsistency.
When researchers scrutinized flight data for four major airlines along routes between Honolulu and three airports on the U.S. mainland (Los Angeles, shown in image; Seattle-Tacoma; and San Francisco) from 1995 to 2013, they found that takeoff-to-touchdown flight times were substantially influenced by the speed of high-altitude winds in a broad area straddling the air routes.
