How to Use kicker in a Sentence

kicker

noun

• The real kicker came when the chairman announced that he was quitting.
• The kicker would still plant a tee at the 35-yard line.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• Peel hit the kicker, and sailed into the back of the truck with a thump.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• The kicker remains back on the other half of the field with the ball teed up at the 35-yard line.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• But the kicker was that her kids said, 'Mom, don't be stupid.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• The Union’s first kicker, Gazdag, slipped in his approach and sailed the ball high over the net.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
• As a kicker, he’s held onto one last dose of the virus.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 27 June 2024
• But here’s the kicker: As the price of bonds go up when lots of people buy them, yields go down.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Colts have spent the last three seasons searching for a kicker.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2022
• The kicker made up for it with his go-ahead field goal later in the quarter.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Here’s a look at kickers and punters to watch this fall.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Bironas adds two extra points to set the NFL record for most points by a kicker, with 26.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
• Three kickers were drafted over the three days by NFL teams.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2023
• From the Washington Post, a story on the rise of kickers.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• My first thought is the score and situation had more to do with it than the kicker.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• In fairness to York, the Ravens’ great kicker, Justin Tucker, missed a try and had one blocked.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 24 Dec. 2022
• The Chiefs' kicker Harrison Butker then kicked a field goal to win the game 38-35.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
• Here’s the kicker: Berhalter never wears the same pair twice.
  — Michael Sykes, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
• Now these kickers can kick it a little more line-driveish to make the returner chase the ball and catch the ball on the run.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2024
• The real kicker is that silver ore was buried in the area where the Romans were digging.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• The kicker: Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel, were married at the time.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• And as a kicker, that’s kind of how you get noticed — those big kicks, those big moments.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• After a safety, the kicker will be required to kick off from his own 20.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• With 35 seconds left, Chiefs star kicker Jan Stenerud was wide right from 42 yards out.
  — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• And here’s the kicker: The restaurant is doing all of it without closing.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• Harbaugh sent James Turner out for his first field goal attempt of the game, and the kicker hooked the 49-yard attempt wide left.
  — Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
• Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker made Moody’s stay in the record book a short one.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Chiefs kicker isn’t backing down from those comments.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
• Niners kicker Jake Moody was injured in the second quarter, which played a part in the loss.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• But York has bigger tasks at hand, such as living up to the hype as the Browns’ best kicker since Phil Dawson.
  — Irie Harris, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024