How to Use touchdown in a Sentence

touchdown

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• What was the plane's speed at touchdown?
• Collins scored on a 28-yard touchdown on the next play.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
• Montana threw for two touchdowns in the 24-17 win for the Chiefs.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
• His 30-yard touchdown catch on a fourth-and-15 late in the game was one of the keys for the Spartans.
  — Randy Kennedy, al, 19 Nov. 2022
• Rodgers has yet to throw a single touchdown pass for the city.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• Ohio State reached the red zone four times and scored one touchdown.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• Male ran for 210 yards on the night and got more than half of those on Cobler’s touchdown runs.
  — Steve Bittenbender/for The Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 19 Nov. 2022
• There were six touchdowns and four field goals in the workout.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The moment loomed large, as neither team led by more than a touchdown the rest of the evening.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
• The Chiefs answered the Eagles' field goal with a touchdown to take a one-point lead.
  — Jim Chairusmi, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2023
• In that loss to the Chiefs, the Jaguars missed two field-goal tries and had a touchdown pass wiped out by a penalty.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• Jacoby then races to catch the ball and run it back for a touchdown.
  — Cindy Boren, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
• Stroud threw six touchdown passes for the third time, and two of them have come against MSU.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
• Cooper caught four passes on the Browns’ touchdown drive for 48 yards and the score.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• The Rattlers led 56-27 before the Knight Hawks scored a touchdown to end the third quarter.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2023
• McCarthy played 30 snaps and threw a touchdown pass on his final play of the game.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Denson scored the first touchdown of the game right before halftime to take a 7-0 lead.
  — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
• Murray passed for three touchdowns and rushed for 59 yards.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• Howe made arguably the most impressive throw of the day for what would have been a 75-yard touchdown.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
• In the third quarter, with the Dolphins in the red zone and in need of a touchdown, Tagovailoa saw a seam and ran for the first down and more.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
• Below is a look at the 75-yard touchdown run from Edwards.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
• The Bears marched 71 yards on an opening touchdown drive, taking a 7-3 lead in the first quarter.
  — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Aggies have won three games in overtime and three others by a touchdown or less.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• There were four kick return touchdowns in the NFL last season.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
• The latter was the Titans' first fourth-quarter touchdown of the season.
  — Steve Megargee, ajc, 18 Nov. 2022
• By the end of a six-minute, 83-yard drive, Kelce had caught two more, including an 8-yard touchdown pass.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• The first touchdown, a 1-yard run by running back Joe Mixon, was the most memorable.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2023
• Munoz passed for 203 yards and one touchdown and ran for another.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Tight end Sam LaPorta has two touchdown passes against Chicago and has five this season.
  — Jack Magruder, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• But on the ensuing possession, the Browns offense orchestrated a 12-play, 80-yard drive, capped off by a two-yard rushing touchdown by Chubb.
  — Jacob Lev, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024

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touch down

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• India's craft was the first to touch down on the moon's rugged south pole.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Aug. 2023
• The largest twister touched down in Arkwright and had peak winds of 110 mph.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Our plane to Rapid City touched down in a pounding rain.
  — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
• The two 747s touched down in Poland, one before the sun, the other in late morning.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The stars have touched down in Paris for the conclusion of Fashion Month.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Most snow falls at 1.5 mph, taking about an hour to touch down.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Several stars have already touched down in the City of Light ahead of the Games.
  — Hannah Malach, WWD, 25 July 2024
• Prince William has touched down in Singapore for the first time in more than a decade.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• But problems greeted the crew the moment the Titan touched down.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 20 June 2023
• Its capsules will touch down in the U.S. Southwest desert.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2020
• Travis Kelce has touched down — not in the end zone, but in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 12 Nov. 2023
• That year, SpaceX is planning to demonstrate the lander could touch down on the surface of the moon.
  — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• Some of the biggest artists in the world will touch down at one venue or another.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2020
• The Longhorns’ reveling ceased as soon as their flight touched down in Austin.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• If all goes well, it would be expected to touch down on Feb. 22.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• Then, the spacecraft should travel home and touch down in Utah with its sample in 2023.
  — Rachael Zisk, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
• That is great news for the crew, which needs good conditions in order to touch down.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• The odds that a tornado touched down in the area are high, officials said.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
• The city of Rocky Mount said the tornado touched down in the northern part of the city and crews were responding to the damage.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• After an offside call against TCU, the Longhorns were able to go for it on 4th and 1 and convert for the first down and touch down.
  — Katherine Griffith, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Astronauts would be on board the next launch, Artemis II, and would orbit the moon again, but not touch down.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
• Vande Hei is slated to touch down in Kazakhstan, aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, at the end of the month.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The last one touched down in May after spending 276 days in orbit.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• If all goes well, it is set to touch down in Jezero, a 28-mile-wide crater north of Mars’ equator, at about 3 p.m.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2020
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle touched down in Jamaica.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• Tornadoes had touched down there and caused a lot of damage.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2024
• When The Real Housewives of Atlanta touch down, di whole place shell down.
  — Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 9 Jan. 2020
• The samples should touch down in a desert in the American West—most likely one in Utah—as early as 2031.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2021
• Kentucky officials would say the next day that the massive storm that struck the factory was one of 30 to touch down in the state overnight.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
• King Charles and Queen Camilla have touched down in Samoa as their royal tour continues.
  — Janine Henni, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024