How to Use dogleg in a Sentence

dogleg

noun
  • There are a few more tricky doglegs, and the par 3’s – at least most of them – are no walk on the beach.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 18 June 2026
  • Though, wait, which side is Reverse on again, and is first gear a dogleg?
    — Steven Ewing, Car and Driver, 25 Dec. 2022
  • And the start/finish line will be moved to a wide stretch just before what's now known as the dogleg.
    — Laura Gómez, azcentral, 30 May 2018
  • Races will start and finish near the track’s infamous dogleg in what is now turn two.
    — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This dogleg right requires a precise tee shot to avoid the trees on the left and fairway bunkers on the right.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2019
  • Nowhere is that more evident than on the seventh hole with the sharp dogleg right guarded by a pond.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Another tricky hole is the 12th, which has a sharp dogleg to the left and runs along a penalty area.
    — Khalin Kapoor, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The seven-speed shift pattern did not require much getting used to, as reverse is a dogleg off to the left.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The station, whose stairways had a dogleg in them, were frequented by muggers and rapists.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The new line will be in the area typically known as the dogleg, a misshapen portion of the track in what is now turn two.
    — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Using the location tracking with the golf course database gives you distances from the hole or a dogleg.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2015
  • The building would be in a dogleg shape, with most of the frontage along Poquonock and the rest facing Mack.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And the course’s sharp doglegs, towering trees and narrow fairways limit the use of drivers to a handful of holes.
    — D.r., The Economist, 13 June 2019
  • Stewart said, referring to the plan to shift the start/finish line from the current front straightaway to the dogleg.
    — Michael Knight, azcentral, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Rather than play the 581-yard hole as a dogleg right, the way it was designed, the game's longest hitter chose the straightest route.
    — Jim Litke, ajc, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Hole 8 goes along the backside of the dune, then the ninth tee gives golfers one more high overlook on the lake before heading back inland on the dogleg left par five.
    — Tom Lang, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Tied with two holes to play, Cantlay took an aggressive line to cut off the corner of a dogleg and figured he was headed for a cluster of bunkers.
    — Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The line will be re-positioned to a wide stretch just before what's currently known as the dogleg, promising unusual moves by drivers.
    — Laura Gómez, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
  • One of the most significant changes was combining the opening two holes into one at 524 yards and a sharp dogleg.
    — Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 10 Aug. 2017
  • For my money, the best hole on the property is the sixth, a soft dogleg left with the Ammonoosuc River guarding the right side.
    — Michael Whitmer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • The parade takes a dogleg route, down the street next to the Highland Park's Public Library.
    — Josh Susong, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022
  • The start/finish line was relocated to just before the dogleg, opening the rough apron to dive-bomb runs as drivers attempted to short-cut the course.
    — Michael Knight, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Ongais slows to a crawl on the vertigo-inducing rise that follows the dogleg left up to the rock-'em-sock-'em mineshaft plummet to the right.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
  • One of the hot topics before the race was how much drivers would use the 110-foot wide apron on Phoenix Raceway’s dogleg turn.
    — David Brandt, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2022
  • One of the hot topics before the race was how much drivers would use the 110-foot wide apron on Phoenix Raceway's dogleg turn.
    — David Brandt, ajc, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Such stats are crucial at Colonial because the venue features small greens and dogleg fairways that force players to move the ball in both directions on approach shots.
    — Jimmy Burch, star-telegram.com, 23 May 2017
  • The math is somewhat deceiving on the dogleg-right hole, as Tomlinson took his ball over some houses with a bit of an unintentional fade.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • On the 15th hole – a 510-yard par 5 with a dogleg left – my second shot left me on the wrong side of the fairway, trees blocking a direct line to the green.
    — Mike Dame, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The finish order for the rest of the field was determined by run times that discounted the nightmarish Ambler to Kobuk dogleg on the course’s east end.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The severe dogleg left wraps around a big lake, making the distance from tee to green in the 350-pound range — or well within DeChambeau’s wheelhouse.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021

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