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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dogleg.

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Examples

  • And no one intervened as they negotiated the next corridor, which doglegged off the first.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • And no one intervened as they negotiated the next corridor, which doglegged off the first.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • And no one intervened as they negotiated the next corridor, which doglegged off the first.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • And no one intervened as they negotiated the next corridor, which doglegged off the first.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • And no one intervened as they negotiated the next corridor, which doglegged off the first.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • The end of the hall doglegged wide into two tiers of long counters, both of them print-media booths, resembling nothing so much as the old grandstand at Suffolk Downs.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

  • Corrugated red earth and stone were visible for twenty-five feet or more, to a dirt wall where the tunnel either ended or doglegged to the right.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • A plastic bag containing a can opener, a bottle opener, a corkscrew and a thin, flat metal bar bent at one end and doglegged at the other with a screw through the bar above the dogleg.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • It terminated essentially in the middle of nowhere, although Maley Drive was ultimately built so that Barrydowne doglegged to the east at Maley Drive, and connected with Falconbridge, the main highway between Sudbury and Garson and other communities (including Falconbridge, Skead and Capreol).

    Progressive Bloggers 2010

  • The hole is the doglegged epitome of golfing at altitude, and The River Course is, by all accounts, the perfect, classic mountain track.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2010

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