| 单词 | drive-sustaining |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrive-sustaining C1. American Football and Canadian Football. With present participles, forming adjectives in which drive (sense 15b) expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in drive-ending, drive-killing, drive-sustaining, etc. ΚΠ 1957 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 17 Nov. 29/3 A big factor in the contest was two Ector fumbles recovered by the Jackets and three drive-killing interceptions by Marlett. 1961 Bakersfield Californian 23 Sept. 30/8 Five of Welch's completions ate up enough yardage for drive sustaining first downs. 1988 Brownfield (Texas) News 4 Sept. 16/5 (caption) A Lubbock Christian defender charges in for a drive-ending sack. 1993 Sports Illustr. 26 Apr. 16/3 The players are still Kansas City style: big, heavy, drive-blocking linesmen, far different from the nimble trap blockers in San Francisco. 2019 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 2 Dec. d4 At least one of his litany of drive-extending passes late in the game should have been knocked away. < as lemmas |
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