two-minute warning

[too-min-it]

noun

Football.

1. a timeout called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.

Example Sentences

Dutifully, fill-in Max Mitchell checked the box with a false start just before the two-minute warning.

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The oversight committee also approved implementation of an NFL-style two-minute warning at the end of the second and fourth quarters.

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Because McVay didn’t use his final timeout until after the two-minute warning, Goff needed only to take three knees in victory formation to send Ford Field into a frenzy.

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But on the next play, Smith was sacked by Harold Landry setting up another key third down — this time Seattle needing 14 yards to convert, on a play that snapped after the two-minute warning.

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It was the Steelers making the curious play calls while failing twice on fourth down in the second half, the first a flip from Trubisky to Jaylen Warren on fourth-and-2 that managed a single yard early in the fourth quarter, the second a heave down the right sideline to a heavily covered Diontae Johnson just before the two-minute warning that fell incomplete.

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