70 examples of a goal in sentences

I want that as a goal to work for, along with my commission in the Navy.

They were beating your enemies and mine, and they were facing a goal which Britain had never yet won.

A touchdown for Brill!" "Now make it a goal!" was the cry, and a goal it became, the Brill quarter-back doing the kicking.

Well, I see exercise is all: I must practice my weapons oft'ner; I must have a goal or two at foot-ball, before I come to my right kind

He must take the field like Spartacus of old; but he must have a goal more definite and more attainable than Spartacus had had.

Life is a soul; The virtue and vice of it, Strife for a goal, And man's strength is the price of it.

I must get out to the woods again, to the whispering trees and the birds awing, Away from the haunts of pale-faced men, to the spaces wide where strength is king; I must get out where the skies are blue and the air is clean and the rest is sweet, Out where there's never a task to do or a goal to reach or a foe to meet.

But, because one has a goal, must one be torn by poisoned spurs?

At one view were the irksomeness of a goal, and the miseries of an hospital; so that the holds of these vessels put him in mind of the regions of the damned.

A story or a song; A race on any track; A gay adventure, short or long, A puzzling nut to crack; A grinding task; a pleasant stroll; A climb; a slide down hill; A constant striving for a goal; A cake; a bitter pill; A pit where fortune flouts or stings; A playground full of fun; With many any of these things; With others all in one.

The classic history of Hillton still recounts the prowess of one Joel the First, who kicked a goal from field and defeated thereby the hosts of St. Eustace.

The aim which yesterday filled your whole gymnastic horizon you overtake and pass as a boat passes a buoy: until passed, it was a goal; when passed, a mere speck in the horizon.

When Jarley, serving as a goal-post, stood at one end of the attic, Jarley junior, standing several yards away, often appeared to mistake him for two goal-posts, and to make an honest effort to kick the ball through him.

But these societies had been more successful in pulling down than in building up, and blinded with excess of zeal were hurrying us onward to a goal which might or might not be the acme of sanitative dress, but was certainly the zero of artistic excellence.

Such a goal existed, until our wars of unification, in the yearnings for German unity, for the fulfilment of the Barbarossa legend.

No monarch moves them, pawns to gain a goal; They felt a fever rising in the soul.

The victims must run down between the lines to a goal at the end, while the cruel Indians on each side reach out to put a chalk mark on them.

Dr. Trotter says"We daily see, in all parts of the world, men who, by profligacy and hard-drinking, have brought themselves to a goal; yet, if we consult the register of the prison, it does not appear that any of these habitual drunkards die by being forced to lead sober lives."

For the genius stands midway between man and Beyond-man: in Nietzsche's phrase, "Man is a bridge and not a goal.

For this one thing I hold as certain, and I dare not doubt itthat there is a Truth behind all confusions and errors; a goal beyond all pilgrimages.

In the face of all this it became increasingly difficult to think of marriage as a goal for herself, and her letters to McCrea were further and further apart as the slow weeks passed.

But he looked in vain for those high ideals of a vocation and a goal that so filled his own soul.

Strange that the feet so precious charged Should reach so small a goal!

I have walked a mile or so before I at length decide upon a goal, toward which to tenda lone and distant cottage, tenanted by a very aged, ignorant, and feudally loyal couplea cottage sitting by the edge of a brown commonone of the few that the greedy hand of Tillage has yet sparedwhere geese may still stalk and hiss unreproved, and errant-tinker donkeys crop and nibble undisturbed

Yet the name of that vessel stood for something of more real account to humanity than the attainment of a goal that had been the mystery of the ages.

70 examples of  a goal  in sentences