How to Use forward pass in a Sentence

forward pass

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  • 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
  • Zimmer dreams of a day when the forward pass shall be outlawed, but there’s a good chance—as happened in both meetings last year—the Vikings fall behind and Cousins will have to make some plays on Sunday.
    — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • 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

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