Collocations for "goal"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "goal" in context.
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goal
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the first goal of the [game, day]
- [scored, missed] the winning goal
- [scored] an [easy, own] goal
- scored a goal
- has never scored a goal
- [saved, prevented] a certain goal
- a penalty goal
- made a field goal
- the open goal
- the goal was [disallowed, ruled out, a fluke]
- won by [three] goals to [one]
- need [two] more goals to [win, qualify, progress]
- [had, decided, opted] to play in goal
- used [sweaters, stones, cones] as goals
- [a career, a life, a long term, a realistic, an academic] goal
- have the goal to [finish, provide, reduce, go, try]
- it is my goal to [finish]
- have the goal of [finishing]
- is a personal goal of mine
- is my (main) goal in life
- set [difficult, yearly, career] goals
- [work, move] towards your goals
- [reach, accomplish, fall short of, miss] your goals
- have the common goal of [making, developing, ensuring]
- have as a common goal the [welfare, advancement] of
- (didn't) cross the goal line
- hit the goal post
'goal' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
achieve
- astonishing
- attainment
- beauty
- book
- brilliant
- cake
- center
- century
- climax
- collateral
- committee
- consulation
- consult
- crown
- decisive
- drought
- elusive
- embarrassing
- end
- error
- extraordinary
- field
- flip
- gift
- grasp
- hanger
- header
- hesitation
- hone
- inch
- incredible
- intent
- kick
- lead
- leather
- lone
- lucky
- main
- mare
- marker
- mile
- mission
- move
- namely
- outrageous
- outright
- overall
- overarching
- overhead