How to Use goalpost in a Sentence

goalpost

noun
  • But no matter someone's level of celebrity, the goalposts have to shift to guarantee success that women make it onto the ballots.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
  • The new goalpost for the NCAA might not be whether college athletes are employees, but instead which ones.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 July 2024
  • 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 | Tgreen@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • There was an 8-yard sack in the third quarter that led to Jason Sanders’ 52-yard field goal doinking off the goalpost.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Jan. 2022

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