flying tackle
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Emma Orr fends off Nel Matcalfe to release Lloyd and the sevens flyer is clear - and even hurdles the desperate flying tackle of Jazz Joyce her GB teammate.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
“You had to love football to come out here and make a flying tackle or a diving catch in sideways rain and get scraped up,” Rice said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2016
Then five minutes after that, a flying tackle and Medel confronted Molina.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
On the drugstore aisle it seemed he had leapt to deliver a flying tackle of a fond hug.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2013
No one, it turned out, but that madman Yossarian, who brought him down with a flying tackle one day as he was scooting along the bottom of the ditch to his trailer for lunch.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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