How to Use field goal in a Sentence

field goal

noun

• He kicked a 20-yard field goal.
• Kick the field goal, take the points.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
• Evansville made just 26 field goals.
  — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Rebels hit the 42-yard field goal.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
• Instead, on marched the field goal team.
  — Sam McDowell 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
• Samford missed eight of its last nine field goals.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
• Their 19 red zone field goals tied for the league lead.
  — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
• Carter Davis hits a 38-yard field goal.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
• That set up the late field goal from Folk to close the first half.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Harden had more turnovers (four) than made field goals (three).
  — Tobias Bass, New York Times, 9 May 2026
• Opt-in and place a bet on any player to score the first field goal.
  — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
• New York had to settle for the field goal.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
• Durant had more turnovers (two) than field goals (one) in the first half.
  — Varun Shankar, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
• The Bills went down to kick a field goal, putting the game out of reach.
  — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• Blake Hartfelder kicked three field goals.
  — Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
• Little was no stranger to kicking long field goals.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
• These Cards have three straight losses on walk-off field goals.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• Orange didn’t make a field goal in the fourth quarter.
  — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 28 Feb. 2026
• The starting offense got a field goal in the two-minute drill.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
• His field goal attempts have gone down from his rookie year on.
  — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• The first one led to a K-State field goal to take the lead.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
• Njie hit all five of his field goal attempts and scored 14 points.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2023
• Give me Kansas City by a field goal.
  — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
• The Bears would only tack on one more field goal the rest of the game.
  — Brandon Funston, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
• Prater made a 47-yard field goal as time expired to win the game.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• James hasn’t just claimed the most points or field goals in league history.
  — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
• New York was held to 220 net yards and two field goals.
  — Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2025
• The Browns scored three touchdowns and a field goal on their next four drives.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2021
• Smack set a school-record with 10 field goals of at least 50 yards.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
• Lock down Lamb, swat a crossing route to the turf and force a field goal.
  — Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025