How to Use touchdown in a Sentence

touchdown

1 of 2 noun
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  • What was the plane's speed at touchdown?
  • Collins scored on a 28-yard touchdown on the next play.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Montana threw for two touchdowns in the 24-17 win for the Chiefs.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
  • His 30-yard touchdown catch on a fourth-and-15 late in the game was one of the keys for the Spartans.
    — Randy Kennedy, al, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Rodgers has yet to throw a single touchdown pass for the city.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Ohio State reached the red zone four times and scored one touchdown.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Male ran for 210 yards on the night and got more than half of those on Cobler’s touchdown runs.
    — Steve Bittenbender/for The Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 19 Nov. 2022
  • There were six touchdowns and four field goals in the workout.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The moment loomed large, as neither team led by more than a touchdown the rest of the evening.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The Chiefs answered the Eagles' field goal with a touchdown to take a one-point lead.
    — Jim Chairusmi, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In that loss to the Chiefs, the Jaguars missed two field-goal tries and had a touchdown pass wiped out by a penalty.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Jacoby then races to catch the ball and run it back for a touchdown.
    — Cindy Boren, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • The Rattlers led 56-27 before the Knight Hawks scored a touchdown to end the third quarter.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2023
  • McCarthy played 30 snaps and threw a touchdown pass on his final play of the game.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Murray passed for three touchdowns and rushed for 59 yards.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Howe made arguably the most impressive throw of the day for what would have been a 75-yard touchdown.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
  • In the third quarter, with the Dolphins in the red zone and in need of a touchdown, Tagovailoa saw a seam and ran for the first down and more.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Below is a look at the 75-yard touchdown run from Edwards.
    — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Aggies have won three games in overtime and three others by a touchdown or less.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
  • There were four kick return touchdowns in the NFL last season.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The latter was the Titans' first fourth-quarter touchdown of the season.
    — Steve Megargee, ajc, 18 Nov. 2022
  • By the end of a six-minute, 83-yard drive, Kelce had caught two more, including an 8-yard touchdown pass.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The first touchdown, a 1-yard run by running back Joe Mixon, was the most memorable.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Munoz passed for 203 yards and one touchdown and ran for another.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Dane Thompkins punched it in for a touchdown two play later.
    — Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Isaiah Newell with a 15-yard touchdown run for Oregon State, which then forced a three-and-out.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Allen made plays with his feet and arm and Chez Mellusi chipped in with a 23-yard touchdown catch and 31 rushing yards.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The Bills offense slid around its home field, layered with snow, and mustered just one touchdown and a field goal in the 27-10 loss.
    — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Bengals engineered a 10-play, 73-yard drive that ended with a three-yard touchdown pass to Tanner Hudson.
    — NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Keith promptly capped Northwood’s first three possessions of the second half with touchdown passes.
    — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 9 Nov. 2024
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touch down

2 of 2 verb
  • India's craft was the first to touch down on the moon's rugged south pole.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The largest twister touched down in Arkwright and had peak winds of 110 mph.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • Our plane to Rapid City touched down in a pounding rain.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
  • The two 747s touched down in Poland, one before the sun, the other in late morning.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The stars have touched down in Paris for the conclusion of Fashion Month.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Most snow falls at 1.5 mph, taking about an hour to touch down.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Several stars have already touched down in the City of Light ahead of the Games.
    — Hannah Malach, WWD, 25 July 2024
  • Prince William has touched down in Singapore for the first time in more than a decade.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But problems greeted the crew the moment the Titan touched down.
    — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 20 June 2023
  • Its capsules will touch down in the U.S. Southwest desert.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Travis Kelce has touched down — not in the end zone, but in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 12 Nov. 2023
  • That year, SpaceX is planning to demonstrate the lander could touch down on the surface of the moon.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
  • If all goes well, it would be expected to touch down on Feb. 22.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Then, the spacecraft should travel home and touch down in Utah with its sample in 2023.
    — Rachael Zisk, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That is great news for the crew, which needs good conditions in order to touch down.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The odds that a tornado touched down in the area are high, officials said.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The city of Rocky Mount said the tornado touched down in the northern part of the city and crews were responding to the damage.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • After an offside call against TCU, the Longhorns were able to go for it on 4th and 1 and convert for the first down and touch down.
    — Katherine Griffith, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Astronauts would be on board the next launch, Artemis II, and would orbit the moon again, but not touch down.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Vande Hei is slated to touch down in Kazakhstan, aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, at the end of the month.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The last one touched down in May after spending 276 days in orbit.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • If all goes well, it is set to touch down in Jezero, a 28-mile-wide crater north of Mars’ equator, at about 3 p.m.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2020
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle touched down in Jamaica.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Tornadoes had touched down there and caused a lot of damage.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The samples should touch down in a desert in the American West—most likely one in Utah—as early as 2031.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Kentucky officials would say the next day that the massive storm that struck the factory was one of 30 to touch down in the state overnight.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The Franklin rover would touch down in a region of Mars’s northern hemisphere called Oxia Planum.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
  • Before that, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket will return to Earth, touching down on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean.
    — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2020
  • If all goes according to plan, the rover will safely touch down in Jezero Crater at 3:55 p.m. ET.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Katie Wiseman Hurricane Milton touched down Wednesday night and many areas, people and pets have been affected by it.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2024

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