Example Sentences

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Those passages of play are coming quicker and quicker, with 62.8% of rucks completed in under three seconds in last year's competition, up 10% on the 2020 competition.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

The 31-year-old has hit 1,247 defensive and attacking rucks during this period - a staggering 515 more than any of his team-mates.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

They support the hooker in the scrum, provide power at rucks and mauls, lift jumpers in the line-out, and carry hard.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025

King was one of three players in WXV1 to hit 20 or more defensive rucks, winning four turnovers in the process.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024

If work's sure and steady theer, labour's paid at starvation prices; while here we'n rucks o' money coming in one quarter, and ne'er a farthing th' next.

From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn