goal line
noun
: a line at either end and usually running the width of a playing area on which a goal or goalpost is situated
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The Bruins put two shots on Bobrovsky near the front of the net, and the puck squirted out along the goal line right to where Minten was all alone.
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CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
Forsberg sent a shuffleboard shot from the corner, a sharp-angle bid that ran parallel to the goal line, that somehow got through Kuemper.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
The Bruins put two shots on Bobrovsky near the front of the net, and the puck squirted out along the goal line right to where Minten was all alone.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Sarah Jane Ramos come up short of the goal line.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026
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CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
Forsberg sent a shuffleboard shot from the corner, a sharp-angle bid that ran parallel to the goal line, that somehow got through Kuemper.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
The Bruins put two shots on Bobrovsky near the front of the net, and the puck squirted out along the goal line right to where Minten was all alone.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Sarah Jane Ramos come up short of the goal line.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Goal line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goal%20line. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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