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grand slam

noun as in landslide

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Though he didn’t hit a grand slam, he did lift the ball to right field near the warning track, deep enough for Justin Upton to tag and score the tying run from third, which contributed to the Angels’ eventual 6-5 win.

For the Atlanta Braves, that meant burying the Washington Nationals with a grand slam that stood against a late offensive push Wednesday.

Achieving a grand slam — catching a bonefish, permit and tarpon on the same day — is also possible in season.

In his career, he's walked home many runs, but in more than thirty-eight hundred innings, Palmer has never given up a grand slam.

Maria Sharapova Why You Might Know Her: The five-time Grand Slam champion has been a corporate glamour girl since 2004.

Why You Might Know Her: The 18 Grand Slam titles help, as does being one-half of the most famous sister pair in sporting history.

Andy Murray, two-time Grand Slam champion, just happened to hire a woman.

Cuomo is touting his on-time budgets over the last four years as a “grand slam.”

A Grand Slam, winning all thirteen tricks, adds 40 points to the honour score.

That grand slam had wrecked the bridge, pinning the commander under the wreckage.

All four played well, and when at last Miss Carrington made a grand slam her joy was effervescent.

I had to partner him at bridge, and brought off a grand slam.

If he had showed his ace, the villain, I should have declared a grand slam in no trumps!

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On this page you'll find 198 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grand slam, such as: annexation, invasion, occupation, rout, subjugation, and take over.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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