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goal

/ɡoʊl/ verb C2
  1. To score a goal.

He/she/it goals · Past goaled · Past participle goaled · -ing form goaling

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Verb forms

Base form
goal
He/she/it
goals
Past
goaled
Past participle
goaled
-ing form
goaling

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A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: “Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race.” The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 4 · B2
At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 4 · B2
For my own part, I had followed step by step the methods by which he had traced the various windings of this complex case, and, though I could not yet perceive the goal which we would reach, I understood clearly that Holmes expected this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining busts, one of which, I remembered, was at Chiswick.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 87 · C1
Oxford won by a goal and two tries.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 120 · C1

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