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
• 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
• 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 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
• Dane Thompkins punched it in for a touchdown two play later.
  — Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• Isaiah Newell with a 15-yard touchdown run for Oregon State, which then forced a three-and-out.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• The Bills offense slid around its home field, layered with snow, and mustered just one touchdown and a field goal in the 27-10 loss.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Chiefs and Cowboys produced just three touchdowns in 18 series in those games.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Long Beach Poly also beat the Diablos in 2022 with a touchdown in the final minute of the game.
  — Michael Huntley, Orange County Register, 3 Oct. 2024
• One of them was on display in the Super Bowl when running back Joe Mixon threw a touchdown pass.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2023
• James scored both of his touchdowns by the end of the first quarter before wide receiver Tez Johnson, who had seven catches for 66 yards, added a third early in the second.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN, 19 Oct. 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
• 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
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle touched down in Jamaica.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The Franklin rover would touch down in a region of Mars’s northern hemisphere called Oxia Planum.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
• If all goes according to plan, the rover will safely touch down in Jezero Crater at 3:55 p.m. ET.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2021
• DraftKings picked an excellent time to touch down in the Buckeye State.
  — cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• With Sonoran tejano hat tilted to the side, Carin León and his botas will touch down on the Stagecoach stage for the first time next year.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• For the spring 2025 collections, Cabello once again touched down in the City of Light, excited to take in all of the new designs.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024
• Among the victims are five people who died due to a tornado that touched down in St. Lucie County.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024