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How to use touchline in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Touchline means one of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch. Example: “The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.”

Examples of touchline by meaning

nounOne of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.

  • French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
  • Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107

More sentences with touchline

  • The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.From the entry peel
  • Klopp chest-bumped his staff on the touchline.15 September 2018, Barney Ronay, The Guardian, Finely tuned Liverpool are really getting into Jürgen Klopp’s groove. From the entry chest-bump
  • He was involved in little more than a routine battle for possession near the touchline before lashing out at Dzudovic.2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England. From the entry steady the ship
  • The following Saturday morning, with other members of the committee, I was on the touchline observing the trialists in action.1998, Bill Samuel, chapter 7, in Rugby: Body and Soul, Edinburgh: Mainstream, page 88. From the entry trialist
  • Fernandinho and Fernando made Yaya Touré’s absence not feel important and Mourinho became so agitated it required a tête-à-tête with Mark Clattenburg on the touchline.2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian, London. From the entry tête-à-tête
  • Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC. From the entry cut
  • His assistant with the B-team and then the first team was Tito Vilanova, the man Mourinho poked in the eye on the touchline during an El Clasico.2013, Adrian Durham, Is He All That? Great Footballing Myths Shattered, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry El Clasico
  • While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC. From the entry bark
  • The decision left Potters boss Tony Pulis apoplectic on the touchline, a feeling his West Ham counterpart Avram Grant was to share immediately after the break.2011 March 13, Chris Bevan, “Stoke 2 - 1 West Ham”, in BBC. From the entry apoplectic

Meaning of touchline

  1. noun One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.

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Questions about touchline in a sentence

How do you use touchline in a sentence?
Touchline is used as a noun. For example: “The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.”
What is a short sentence with touchline?
“Klopp chest-bumped his staff on the touchline.”
What does touchline mean?
Touchline means one of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touchline (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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