kick

Example Sentences

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Summer nights were hide-and-seek or kick the can throughout our backyards.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Slade added a penalty for Exeter before Pearson scored his first Prem try after 14 minutes when Bailey's perfectly weighted kick sat up for the full-back to race in down the left flank.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

PSG goalkeeper Matvey Safonov, officially the backup, hadn’t saved a penalty kick yet in this shootout.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

In this week’s episode of The Envelope podcast, we kick off Emmy season with Carrie Preston, who plays an offbeat investigator in Robert and Michelle King’s “Columbo”-inspired comedy “Elsbeth.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Let’s kick this off with Dr. Sabio, who, along with her team, unveiled the STM at the University of Delaware Red Knot campus.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly