GOAL in a Sentence

Learn GOAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
165 example sentences for GOAL, such as:
1. Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached.
2. He kicked the ball into an open goal.
3. The centre forward headed the ball into goal.
4. The ball bounced off the post and into the goal.
5. They cannot achieve their goal through legal means.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GOAL
goal
 n.  a successful attempt at scoring
 n.  the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  That is to say, things are to be attained only by putting forth one's whole strength, since nothing short of one's whole strength will bring one to the desired goal.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  Having gained possession of these half-crumbling papers, Arkady felt, as it were, soothed, just as though he had caught a glimpse of the goal towards which he ought now to go.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
4  Behind it were seven hundred miles of hunger-stricken, hostile country; ahead were a few dozen miles separating it from its goal.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
5  Coming out onto the highroad the French fled with surprising energy and unheard-of rapidity toward the goal they had fixed on.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIX
6  The French crowd fled at a continually increasing speed and all its energy was directed to reaching its goal.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
7  Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
8  But as soon as the necessity for a general European war presented itself he appeared in his place at the given moment and, uniting the nations of Europe, led them to the goal.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
9  He and Pierre were borne along lightly and joyously, nearer and nearer to their goal.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
10  Italy is your goal; wooing the winds you shall go to Italy, and enter her harbours unhindered.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
11  Here lord Aeneas set up a goal of leafy ilex, a mark for the sailors to know whence to return, where to wheel their long course round.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
12  Between Gyas' ship and the echoing crags he scrapes through inside on his left, flashes past his leader, and leaving the goal behind is in safe water.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
13  And now on the very goal Cloanthus alone is left; him he pursues and presses hard, straining all his strength.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
14  This said, they take their place, and the signal once heard, dart over the course and leave the line, pouring forth like a storm-cloud while they mark the goal.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
15  They, where the goal of their way lies nearest, bear through the brushwood in armed array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
2  Toward a day finally to achieve the ultimate goal of moving enough, but every step as the goal, to make it as a step function.
3  We should do our utmost to achieve our goal in life.
4  They cannot achieve their goal through legal means.
5  When he scored his fourth goal of the afternoon, we were forced to forgive his showboating and other antics.
6  England scored again, but the whistle had gone and the goal was disallowed.
7  If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal.
8  The centre forward headed the ball into goal.
9  Black kicked/headed the ball into/towards the goal.
10  The ball bounced off the post and into the goal.
11  He kicked the ball into an open goal.
12  Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference.
13  Bell's flick into the penalty area helped to create the goal.
14  Our goal is to create the conditions for a lasting peace.
15  He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign - a hung parliament.