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goal line
noun
- the line that bounds a goal, especially the front line.
goal line
noun
- sport the line marking each end of the pitch, on which the goals stand
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Word History and Origins
Origin of goal line1
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Example Sentences
But Yalie Thompson had the presence of mind to clutch the ball to his chest, turn, and run for the goal line.
After months of debate, lawmakers seeking to pass health-care reform are tantalizingly close to the goal line.
You'd be all right, at that, except that you'd probably stumble over the whitewash on the goal line and drop the ball.
And so, for three full quarters and part of another, neither team was able to cross the other's goal line.
There was now not a player between the Canton man and the goal line.
Shod with the wings of Mercury, he sped on and on and still on toward the far-distant goal line.
With a last, gallant effort he plunged across the goal line and fell unconscious beneath the cross-bar.
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