Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "tackling"

Lexicographically close words:
tackle; tackled; tackler; tacklers; tackles; tacks; tacksman; tacksmen; tacky; tact
  1. It’s rather hard to explain in simple language, Hank, and I guess there are heaps of fellows just like you who’d like to understand the first principles of wireless without tackling a lot of dry text books, so here goes.

  2. He took the wheel from Nate, tackling it with renewed vigor.

  3. Perhaps it is the touch of winter in the air which braces your mind and soul and gives you the impression that, given the long autumn evenings over the fire undisturbed, your brain will soon be capable of tackling the removal of mountains.

  4. I find a sort of analogy between these methods and those which we used in England in tackling the similar cumulative problem of finding men for war.

  5. I want now to describe however briefly, the methods it has adopted in tackling the worst of all Russia's problems-the non-productivity and absolute shortage of labor.

  6. You gave the price of the tackling for six of the triremes with which Themistocles pretends to believe he can beat back my master.

  7. To the Peiræus to inspect the new tackling of the Nausicaä.

  8. His tackling has improved greatly over that of last year.

  9. He is a strong line backer, and for hard and sure tackling is not surpassed by any man on the team.

  10. In every play his tackling is fierce, and as a ground-gainer he can always be relied on.

  11. As there is practically no tackling or falling, the "soccer" uniform does not require the same amount of padding as a Rugby player's uniform.

  12. The half-backs are chosen because of their speed and their ability to advance the ball and to elude the tackling of the opposing team.

  13. The warships are all standing in close and tackling the last of the main Turkish forts and strongholds in the Dardanelles.

  14. When we first got to Gallipoli we did not know the tricks of the trade, but everybody soon got fly, and that helped us a lot in tackling “Beachy Bill” and lessening his bag.

  15. We were tackling a bad wound in the head, and when it was finished and the man was being got comfortable, he flinched and remarked, "That leg is a beast.

  16. French Hospital, with its up-to-date modern operating theatre for tackling the wounds in a strictly aseptic and scientific way within a few hours of the men being hit, are a tremendous help.

  17. This improvement is due to the subject's finding out ways of tackling this particular sort of material.

  18. The adult's superiority in tackling a maze may be summed up by saying that he observes more than the child--much more than the animal--and governs his behavior by his observations.

  19. He'd come to his university without any real preparation--you know even in the best regulated institutions of learning they sometimes get your marks on tackling mixed with your grades on entrance algebra.

  20. They kept us catching punts between classes, and tackling each other all the way to our rooms and back.

  21. They seem to have brought their sails and tackling with them, but had they not done so they could have made shift with the rough Indian cloth and the fibrous, easily twisted bark of the maho-tree.

  22. A short gun, projecting its muzzle through the port, was also less likely to catch the outboard tackling of the sails, such as "Sheetes and Tackes, or the Bolynes.

  23. I don't believe it would have been too cold, with the fire and everything," said Bennie Rhead, after they had finished luncheon and were sitting lazily around the blaze for a bit before tackling the job of cleaning up.

  24. He flung himself into the fray with snap and energy, tackling well, recovering swiftly, and showing a pretty knowledge of interference.

  25. The task of tackling an apparently inoffensive ox was not going to be quite so easy as he imagined.

  26. In fact, he was glad to know he was in the wrong, for he did not relish the task of tackling the shaft and the treacherous, dust-covered slope at its edge.

  27. Accustomed as he was to deal swiftly with the natives, never hesitating to shoot down any black creature that thwarted him, he shrank from tackling his intended victims.

  28. If the team wanted to express their disapproval, said he, let them do it on the field by tackling their very hardest.

  29. In this way much of Charteris's righteous retribution miscarried, but once or twice he had the pleasure and privilege of putting in a piece of tackling on his own account.

  30. It wasn't the tackling part of it that crocked him.

  31. As a result of which philosophical reflection, the tackling was ruled slightly energetic, and the handing-off was done with vigour.

  32. In consequence, however, the tackling became so entangled that until a young sailor undertook to climb the gibbet the prisoner could not be suspended.

  33. I have tried to make the book a fairly reliable and interesting guide to anyone thinking of tackling the life.

  34. I found afterwards that thirty shillings an acre is little enough for tackling this dreadful stuff.

  35. Nevertheless he heartily applauded Mrs. Thompson for her firm tackling of the indigent suitor; he offered to find out everything about Kenion and his family, and promised that he would render staunch aid in sending him "to the right-abouts.

  36. He tried hard to dissuade me from tackling the river, urging that a fine upstanding young feller like myself ought to spend his life doing good to others rather than going outer his way to do harm to hisself.

  37. That is one distinct advantage boating on the upper Yellowstone has over tackling such a stretch as the Big Bend of the Columbia in Canada, or the remoter waters of any of the great South American, African or Asian rivers.

  38. Certainly it is not a good to be conquered--a state of mind wrested from life by tackling and mastering its varied experiences, the end, not the beginning, of a great journey.

  39. Friends were dining with us that night, but luckily they did not expect conventional amusements; they preferred tackling leaking water-tanks to bridge.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tackling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparatus; equipment; gear; machinery; material; materiel; parapet; rig; rigging; service; serving; tackle; whipping