dogleg - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • leave: A dogleg left with a sloping fairway that can propel the ball to the right.
  • make: More so because we were surveying as we went and the passage made sharp doglegs every few meters.
  • take: Taking a dogleg to the south east, we visit the vast, mid-channel gravel beds, fifty meters down.
  • have: A cursus at Rudston, like one at Stonehenge, has a dogleg.

Adjective modifier

  • slight: Go straight across crossroads ( slight dogleg ) into Priory Lane.
  • sharp: More so because we were surveying as we went and the passage made sharp doglegs every few meters.
  • left: Hole 6 Par 4 - 325 m This par 4, with a slight incline, is a left dogleg.

Modifies a noun

  • right: There are bunkers on both sides of the fairway on this dogleg right where the green slopes away on both sides.
  • stair: Dogleg stairs lead up to three delightful bedrooms and a useful office for those who need the convenience of contact.
  • left: If the hole turns to the left, it is called a " dogleg left.

Noun used with modifier

  • way: The Cotswold Way, Standish Wood After about 800m the route of the Cotswold Way doglegs to the left.
  • path: As you draw level with a slope up to your left the path doglegs a little to make its way up the bank.
  • right-left: A short right-left dogleg brings you into the short lane to the pretty locality of Woodford.
  • route: The route doglegs left along this track for a short distance then hard right, to cross a footbridge over a nameless stream.

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