How to Use forward pass in a Sentence

forward pass

noun

• Any luck with that APB the Ducks have put out for the forward pass?
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• That honor went to Sammy Baugh, who joined the Redskins in 1937 and made the forward pass a weapon.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• By the end of the second frame, Loveland even tried a few forward passes.
  — James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 26 May 2020
• After review, the ruling is a forward pass and the Vikings will punt from their own 29.
  — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2019
• For a team to throw a forward pass, a ball must be exchanged twice behind the line of scrimmage.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
• The play was ruled a forward pass and a 6-yard touchdown pass from Hopkins to Watson.
  — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 1 Dec. 2019
• New Orleans could become the first team since 1933 (the year of the forward pass) to open the season without a turnover through five games.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Just as Babe Ruth changed baseball, the forward pass changed football and the curved stick changed hockey, Maradona changed the world’s game.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• The touchdown was ruled a rush because Walker's toss was not a forward pass.
  — Steve Reed, ajc, 11 Nov. 2022
• The lateral was a borderline forward pass, but Dyson ran 75 yards for the touchdown and the win.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
• Not surprisingly, the 49ers also will find ways beyond the forward pass to get the ball to Samuel.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• But he was put through by a forward pass from Pete Horne, negating the sequence.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 13 Oct. 2019
• The play, however, didn’t count as Johnson’s heave was the second forward pass of that play.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
• The forward pass is utilized more than 40 times per game on a typical night.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2021
• Another tweak to the Citadel’s spring game will be the XFL’s double forward pass option.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
• The first forward pass wasn't thrown until under five minutes in the first quarter.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2021
• In the record ninth overtime, the law of averages prevailed and Illinois completed a forward pass to win the game 20-18.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Thunderhawks have thrown 12 forward passes in three games.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• The fumble occurred on a screen pass, one that Hardin and the entire Milford sideline argued was a forward pass.
  — The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2022
• Among the innovations intended to make the game less vicious was the forward pass.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
• And if that's the case, at this point, Ducks coach Willie Taggart would probably settle for moving the first-down marker with a forward pass.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Modifies penalty to add a loss of down for a second forward pass behind the line and for a pass thrown after the ball returns behind the line.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• Goff entered leading the NFL in pass attempts per game, but the Rams started with a seven-play, 56-yard drive that didn’t feature a forward pass.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• Two forward passes are allowed behind the line of scrimmage.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2020
• There are excellent running teams, but down a couple scores a forward pass can come in handy (see Doug Flutie).
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The play was not reviewed as a possible forward pass by SEC officials.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2020
• Three decades ago, the game was still rooted in the fundamental philosophies that had existed since the invention of the forward pass.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• Denver has averaged 15 points per game on the year, which is worse than even the Chicago Bears, who refuse to utilize the modern invention known as the forward pass.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
• Next is the machine learning part: Give a neural network the noisy images obtained from a forward pass and train it to predict the less noisy images that came one step earlier.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Cumberland's favorite play was the punt, which (at the time) was a viable offensive option in the field-position battle during the infancy of the legal forward pass.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024