dogleg

Example Sentences

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The sixth, now some 503 yards, has a slight dogleg to the right with fairway bunkers to the left and Allen's Creek running down the right, cutting across the fairway and then down the left.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

The dogleg from Burbank to Palmdale was never without advantages.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022

We had more than one letter squeezed into a square; we had words that went over the boundaries of the puzzle; we had words dogleg into words below, above, right or left.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

But x-rays emitted longer ago could also be arriving, having followed dogleg paths after being scattered by distant gas clouds.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2021

One small section of wheat, on a little dogleg of my land, had escaped the storm.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson