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Example sentences for: punt

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Punt, Pass, and Cheat
They punt or fumble, and the Democrats carry the ball the other way.
The WP lead brings word that the Supreme Court, confronted with its first chance to take up the issue of a particular vexed type of late-term abortion, decided to punt, prompting an angry dissent from conservative justices Thomas, Rehnquist and Scalia.
The name pound is used by Cyprus, Egypt, Ireland (as punt ), Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria.
As punt is a Briticism for gamble, punter in the sense of gambler is a Briticism; there are many US equivalents, the most common being sucker .—Editor]