How to Use out-of-bounds in a Sentence

out-of-bounds

adverb or adjective

• Fans pack in, hovering over the court’s out-of-bounds lines.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2023
• Redirect the growth of out-of-bounds shoots and thin trees and shrubs as needed.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Clippers lost a coach's challenge of an out-of-bounds call with 30 seconds left.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• Technically no — because there were five on the floor and one out-of-bounds.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 3 Mar. 2023
• An out-of-bounds hit at the end of a punt return sparked a scuffle in which a Moody player was ejected for throwing a punch.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• After a timeout, Charlotte’s Igor Milicic Jr. calmly sank a 3-pointer off an out-of-bounds play to tie the game.
  — Langston Wertz Jr., Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2024
• Cardinal scored the game-winning basket on an out-of-bounds play as Guerin Catholic handed Cathedral its first loss, 48-47.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2024
• Their undoing, of all things, was sideline out-of-bounds plays after calling timeout to advance the ball to midcourt.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• The hole, the 16th for members and a place where Open players have often used long irons in the past, will veer toward the right, by an extensive and expanded out-of-bounds area, for second shots.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Playing a provisional ball allows players to re-hit without having to walk back to the original spot of the ball if it is lost or out-of-bounds.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• Course obstacles include trees, bushes, terrain changes, water hazards and out-of-bounds zone, which results in a penalty throw.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• However, the officials on the field ruled that Buffalo linebacker Baylon Spector didn’t recover the ball with full possession before his body touched the white out-of-bounds line.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
• Memory safety is a feature of programming languages that prevents certain types of memory-access bugs, such as out-of-bounds reads and writes, and use-after-free bugs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• There’s just one rare exception to this out-of-bounds clock stoppage, and that’s if a runner isn’t going forward — as Dallas Cowboys fans sadly found out with 28 seconds left in their playoff loss to San Francisco last year.
  — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• If such out-of-bounds communication protocols come from the IT department, employees might still feel reluctant to bother the boss.
  — Ilia Sotnikov, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The four vulnerabilities rated as having a high impact include two use-after-free bugs and two out-of-bounds memory access issues.
  — Kate O'Flaherty, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Earlier this month, 23 people needed rescuing in Killington, Vermont, after ducking a boundary rope to ski and snowboard out-of-bounds on a particularly good powder day—the kind that’s getting vanishingly rare in the Northeast.
  — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
• Similarly, even as each side engages in aggressive cyber-espionage against the other, both would benefit from identifying out-of-bounds targets for cyberattacks.
  — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024