Wiktionary
free-throw line
n. (context basketball English) A line parallel to the baseline, fifteen feet from the plane of the backboard.
Usage examples of "free-throw line".
They depict a young man and a young woman, both attractive, svelte, and dressed something like marquee players in the Ice Capades, performing simple ballroom dance steps to the accompaniment of strangled music from a ghetto blaster set up on the free-throw line.
Michael Jordan sails in from some outer darkness beyond the free-throw line.
He responds with a soft jumper from the free-throw line that goes cleanly through the net.