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, ajc, 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, The Arizona Republic, 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

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024