diagramed

Example Sentences

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They’ve been so good that offenses have diagramed plans around them, assigning double-teams and going above and beyond to neutralize them.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Watch Purdy take the snap, forget what’s supposed to happen or how a play was diagramed, keep your eyes on the overachieving quarterback, and just hold your breath.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

He was a coach with few rules, but players competed hard for him because he managed relationships as well as he diagramed plays.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021

There’s the stately, even pace of the clauses, like a sentence diagramed by a tweedy lecturer; the stuffy hyperbole of “Cretaceous period”; the little fluff of emphatic plumage in “extravagantly.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2018

“We haven’t diagramed a single sentence all year. I’m getting worried about the College Boards.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy