How to Use clincher in a Sentence
clincher
noun-
In the clincher the Dodgers trailed 3-2 in the sixth, when Kiké Hernández tied the game with a homer.
— Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021 -
In the clincher the Dodgers trailed 3-2 in the sixth when Kiké Hernández tied the score with a homer.
— Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021 -
The meal plan was the clincher, Te’o-Nesheim joked to Perry.
— Les Bowen, Philly.com, 23 Apr. 2018 -
Mobley thought Allen would be the one to can the clincher.
— Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2022 -
Arroyo gets the bunt down and the Sox won the clincher with a walkoff sac fly.
— BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021 -
Celebrity Style The cute bow in the hair was the clincher of this Chloé dress for us.
— Alice Newbold, Glamour, 18 June 2024 -
Here’s where Custer and Townes went to work and got a good look for the game-clincher.
— Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 22 Mar. 2018 -
The last one, a four-yard pass with 2:46 left, appeared to be the clincher.
— Mike Lefkow, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019 -
And then to find the needle and this was pretty much the clincher of this.
— Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2017 -
Rogers scored the game-clincher with a 1-yard score with 4:45 left in the contest.
— Robert Ladnier, al, 31 Aug. 2019 -
Kevin Fiala, Wild: The winger set up the tying goal and scored the clincher in the shootout.
— Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021 -
But the real clincher is the lack of grout lines, which makes cleanup a cinch.
— Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2022 -
Greene’s first trip to the island, in August 2015, was the clincher.
— Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Georgia scored the most points in the first quarter of a CFP clincher with 17.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023 -
The clincher here is the live music, which draws a vibrant crowd.
— Mary Holland, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2017 -
The clincher was Johnson's last 3, an end-of-clock straight-ahead look from a post kick.
— Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Feb. 2022 -
Joe Musgrove and the San Diego bullpen allowed one hit against the Mets in the wild-card round clincher.
— Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 19 Oct. 2022 -
Young bowed during the clincher to the New York crowd that had jeered him in every game.
— Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 6 June 2021 -
Terance Mann, who scored 39 points in the clincher against Utah, had just five.
— Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021 -
The real clincher, though, is the handful of pine nuts scattered over the top.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 -
That 87-86 clincher over the Utah Jazz would be Jordan’s final game with the Bulls.
— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 June 2024 -
The real clincher, of course, will have to come from Venus itself.
— Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2020 -
And Bestard’s clincher was an example of being in the right place at the right time.
— Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2020 -
March 10 marked the clincher, when the Spurs lost at Oklahoma City.
— Cody McCrary, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2018 -
Beyond her music, the clincher was the artist standing there who was ready to take on the world.
— Dan Heching, CNN, 29 July 2023 -
The clincher for us, though, was the free 4G Wi-Fi on tablets and all the positive reviews.
— Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2021 -
Sean Hamilton made the last minute shot to put the game into overtime and then Sean made the clincher shot for the win.
— Chris Folks, Laurel Leader, 28 June 2018 -
Philly, however, won the game and then the series clincher for a 3-0 sweep.
— Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2021 -
That only delayed the evitable, though, with Fabio Grosso scoring the clincher on the next shot.
— Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 19 May 2018 -
Burdette allowed one walk and seven hits in the clincher for the 5-0 win.
— Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2021
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