bolter

Example Sentences

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There was mention of Blair Murray as a bolter at full-back and more talk of Taulupe Faletau possibly coming in for the desperately unlucky Caelan Doris, who misses out.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

Adam Wharton has come from nowhere to be the "bolter" in England's squad but his brilliant cameo against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday told Southgate all he needed to know.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

No one witnessed the accident, but Dinger apparently got caught in the rotating shaft on the bolter, she said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

The league's biggest surprise, Cleveland acquired the 27-year-old LeVert to bolter their offense and get the Cavs closer to an Eastern Conference title.

From Fox News • Feb. 8, 2022

One day, after swapping horses many miles from home, he found himself driving a terrified bolter that he only just managed to stop on the edge of a big embankment.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry