team foul

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noun Basketball.

one of a number of personal fouls committed within a specified period that do not exceed the allowable limit after which the opposing team begins to receive bonus free throws.

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How to use team foul in a sentence

But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
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Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
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But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
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Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.
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Two years later this promising recruit, having fallen foul of the military authorities, had to leave the service under a cloud.
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Accordingly, she had the boys to hitch a team to a buggy and took him driving over the great estate.
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But I have some more foul way to trot through still, in your Epistles and Satyrs, &c.
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Well, from what little I've seen and heard of him, he'd be a whole team if he's willing to throw in with us and take a chance.
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You had better go to him, Dolly, and bid him good bye, before he takes the team to the field.
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