Example Sentences

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The English champions knew five points would secure top spot and turned down an early kickable penalty, with Du Toit rewarding that call.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

From the resulting scrum, Allan Dell is penalised for early engagement again in a kickable but difficult position on the right.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2019

Now, imagine playing soccer with a large, soft, kickable banana — which is even harder than a football to reliably aim.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2019

When I was a child, the fall sometimes lasted weeks or months, and the leaves piled up in the streets in kickable stacks.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2016

The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George