How to Use goalpost in a Sentence

goalpost

noun

• The ball is the same size, the goalpost is the same size.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• And the odds are in your favor to round a goalpost or two.
  — Catherine Urban, Bon Appetit, 1 June 2018
• On both scores, White went through the line and found an open spot near the goalpost.
  — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 22 May 2021
• Boone Jenner, who scored to tie the game at 1, rang the goalpost with a shot.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
• At that time, goalposts were on the goal line, not behind the end zone.
  — Brett Martel, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2020
• Bryant poked his head around from the other side of the goalpost and gave Aubie a once-over.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 23 Nov. 2021
• Lovett's goal saw his kick find the left side, just inches from the goalpost.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
• Now, Shankar says the goalpost has moved to August 2021.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 6 Feb. 2020
• His wrist shot from the right side clanked in off the left goalpost at 7:03 of the first period.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2017
• The White House, meanwhile, seems to be moving the goalposts.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
• That’s not to say the right hasn’t tried to move the goalposts more in its direction to place Swift and Kelce on the left.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• That game marked the start of a three-game sweep, and suddenly, the goalposts shifted.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Baldwin put too much touch on the ball, though, and her low shot caromed off the right goalpost.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2021
• On Friday, Seibert missed from 41 and bounced one through off the goalpost and through from 48 yards.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland.com, 28 July 2019
• Locadia fired from 18 yards out, but his shot clanked off the inside of the left goalpost and away from the goal.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2020
• This phone is a little closer to that goalpost in depth.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
• Myles Garrett stood under the goalpost and signaled that the kick was no good.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2022
• Or sending his field-goal kicker out when the goalpost is close to 60 yards away.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
• The power brokers feel that the goalposts are being moved on them.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2018
• And most hope the money will be earned right here, driving balls between the goalposts in Barcelona.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2018
• This isn’t the first time that conservatives have moved the goalposts.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• From there, sprinklers go into place and four thin pieces of wood are set in place to mark where the goalposts will go.
  — Tim Reynolds, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Through the Sierra, and on the verge of absolving themselves of their 100-day goalpost, the twins ran the numbers again.
  — Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2020
• The, um, goalposts are always moving in terms of what's legal and what's not.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
• After the game, fans took a goalpost and threw it in the Tennessee River in Knoxville.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2022
• No team is in the business of moving the goalpost down after a strong season.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• Ovechkin collected the puck at the right circle, swooped around the net and buried a shot inside the goalpost on Jonathan Bernier's stick side.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2019
• Trevor Daley angled the puck on net from just outside the left goalpost.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2017
• The guys on the other side are always moving goalposts.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• The team is selling pieces of the goalpost, which fans ripped up and chucked into the Cumberland River.
  — Axios Nashville, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024