Wondering how to use Dogleg in a sentence? Below are 8 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as angle or hole.
Dogleg in a sentence
Dogleg meaning
- Something (such as a canyon or road) with a sharp bend or turn in it.
- A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half-landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards.
Using Dogleg
- The main meaning on this page is: Something (such as a canyon or road) with a sharp bend or turn in it. | A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half-landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. | Something (such as a canyon or road) with a sharp bend or turn in it.
- Useful related words include: angle, hole, golf hole.
Context around Dogleg
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dogleg
- In this selection, "dogleg" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, challenging, slight, gentle, left, turn and occurs stand out and add context to how "dogleg" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 11th a dogleg left around and a challenging dogleg right par. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dogleg" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dogleg
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hole No. 1 is a slight dogleg left. (8 words)
He made a dogleg turn and loped toward the Capitol. (10 words)
Call it Canada's Portmarnock, though Ireland has no match for Cabot's postcard par-4 11th, a dogleg-left around a tidal yacht basin. (25 words)
Working with a G.P.S.-based plotter, they made a slight right turn with a new heading of 140 degrees, creating a gentle dogleg that would pass 10 miles outside San Salvador Island and put them 50 miles from the hurricane’s eye. (44 words)
Dogleg’s patio is solid, comfortable and helps bring the outside in. From the patio, you can watch as challengers take on the golf simulator, as well as a TV if you’re there for the Masters. (37 words)
For example, when a nominally straight, un-aliased line steps across one pixel, a dogleg occurs halfway through the line, where it crosses the threshold from one pixel to the other. (31 words)
Example sentences (8)
Dogleg’s patio is solid, comfortable and helps bring the outside in. From the patio, you can watch as challengers take on the golf simulator, as well as a TV if you’re there for the Masters.
He made a dogleg turn and loped toward the Capitol.
Hovland then defeated McCarthy in a sudden-death playoff with a par on the 18th hole, a challenging dogleg right par-4 that never fails to entertain.
Hole No. 1 is a slight dogleg left.
Call it Canada's Portmarnock, though Ireland has no match for Cabot's postcard par-4 11th, a dogleg-left around a tidal yacht basin.
Working with a G.P.S.-based plotter, they made a slight right turn with a new heading of 140 degrees, creating a gentle dogleg that would pass 10 miles outside San Salvador Island and put them 50 miles from the hurricane’s eye.
For example, when a nominally straight, un-aliased line steps across one pixel, a dogleg occurs halfway through the line, where it crosses the threshold from one pixel to the other.
The depressed lower key lifts jacks A, B and C. The English dogleg jack system (also used in Baroque Flanders) does not require a coupler.