bolter

Example Sentences

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Monye reckons a big tournament for Ireland fly-half Prendergast would put him in the mix as a Lions bolter.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

There is always room for a "bolter" - the figure who comes late and from nowhere into a squad - before a major tournament.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 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