Example sentences for: athletics

How can you use “athletics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Robert Novak (CNN's Capital Gang ) is appalled at the "contrition mission," finding Clinton's slavery apologies logically flawed in light of the many prominent "African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business," who would not be Americans without the slave trade.

  • It's easy to overstate the new athletics as a force for social change, but don't count on surfers opposing the president's ludicrous, Reagan-revival anti-missile plan.

  • The injuries sustained in the accidents may not permit the person to do athletics forever.

  • The Kansas City Athletics, for example, were essentially a farm team for the Yankees during the 1950s and early 1960s, and not coincidentally the Yankees won pennant after pennant.

  • The elongated oval piazza was laid out around a.d. 79 by Emperor Domitian as an athletics stadium, Circus Agonalis — a sporting tradition continued in the Middle Ages with jousting tournaments and other events in the centuries that followed.


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