How to Use dogleg in a Sentence

dogleg

noun
  • The dogleg-left fairway climbs and then slopes to the right.
    Teddy Greenstein and Chad Yoder, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • The building would be in a dogleg shape, with most of the frontage along Poquonock and the rest facing Mack.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And the start/finish line will be moved to a wide stretch just before what's now known as the dogleg.
    Laura Gómez, azcentral, 30 May 2018
  • Though, wait, which side is Reverse on again, and is first gear a dogleg?
    Steven Ewing, Car and Driver, 25 Dec. 2022
  • This dogleg right requires a precise tee shot to avoid the trees on the left and fairway bunkers on the right.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2019
  • Another tricky hole is the 12th, which has a sharp dogleg to the left and runs along a penalty area.
    Khalin Kapoor, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Lang loved many of the trees and grew attached to a giant oak guarding the corner of the dogleg on No. 1.
    Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The parade takes a dogleg route, down the street next to the Highland Park's Public Library.
    Josh Susong, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022
  • Rather than play the 581-yard hole as a dogleg right, the way it was designed, the game's longest hitter chose the straightest route.
    Jim Litke, ajc, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The new line will be in the area typically known as the dogleg, a misshapen portion of the track in what is now turn two.
    Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Races will start and finish near the track’s infamous dogleg in what is now turn two.
    Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Stewart said, referring to the plan to shift the start/finish line from the current front straightaway to the dogleg.
    Michael Knight, azcentral, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Nowhere is that more evident than on the seventh hole with the sharp dogleg right guarded by a pond.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • One of the hot topics before the race was how much drivers would use the 110-foot wide apron on Phoenix Raceway’s dogleg turn.
    David Brandt, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2022
  • One of the hot topics before the race was how much drivers would use the 110-foot wide apron on Phoenix Raceway's dogleg turn.
    David Brandt, ajc, 13 Mar. 2022
  • For my money, the best hole on the property is the sixth, a soft dogleg left with the Ammonoosuc River guarding the right side.
    Michael Whitmer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • And the course’s sharp doglegs, towering trees and narrow fairways limit the use of drivers to a handful of holes.
    D.r., The Economist, 13 June 2019
  • The seven-speed shift pattern did not require much getting used to, as reverse is a dogleg off to the left.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • An N95-masked Azoff takes a seat on a patio with a view of hallowed ground — the first hole of the Pebble Beach course, a dogleg-right par 4 with a priceless view of the bay.
    Alex Pappademas, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Hole 8 goes along the backside of the dune, then the ninth tee gives golfers one more high overlook on the lake before heading back inland on the dogleg left par five.
    Tom Lang, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Using the location tracking with the golf course database gives you distances from the hole or a dogleg.
    Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2015
  • Risk remains, with criticism at the ready around any dogleg.
    Steve Dimeglio, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2020
  • And there is nothing quite like the sixth hole, a nasty, 499-yard left-to-right dogleg known as the toughest hole in the Open Championship rotation.
    Matthew Futterman, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • The severe dogleg left wraps around a big lake, making the distance from tee to green in the 350-pound range — or well within DeChambeau’s wheelhouse.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The station, whose stairways had a dogleg in them, were frequented by muggers and rapists.
    Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The frame of the 2,370-pound Microbus was in excellent condition, but had the typical areas of rust, such as the doglegs ahead of the front wheels and the rocker panel.
    Vern Parker, Houston Chronicle, 20 July 2019
  • Ongais slows to a crawl on the vertigo-inducing rise that follows the dogleg left up to the rock-'em-sock-'em mineshaft plummet to the right.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
  • The finish order for the rest of the field was determined by run times that discounted the nightmarish Ambler to Kobuk dogleg on the course’s east end.
    Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • One of the most significant changes was combining the opening two holes into one at 524 yards and a sharp dogleg.
    Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Tied with two holes to play, Cantlay took an aggressive line to cut off the corner of a dogleg and figured he was headed for a cluster of bunkers.
    Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2022

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