Example sentences for: badminton

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

  • With the huge successes of Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, and Michael Stich, tennis has now become a favorite national sport, with squash and badminton catching on fast, too.

  • Badminton derives from the name of the estate in Gloucestershire where the game was first played in England; tennis stems from tenetz , an old form of tenez , from French tenir `to hold'; and squash , according to scholars, probably grew out of the “squashy” sound which the original soft ball made against the wall of the court.

  • To begin with let us list some of the official racquet games, both ancient and modern, that may be defined in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia of sport: tennis; lawn tennis; squash tennis; paddle tennis; platform tennis; table tennis; paddleball; racquetball; squash racquets; badminton; and racquets . The most obvious characteristic of this list is that most of these games appear, at least, to be variations of the game of tennis , yet in reality they cannot be technically classified as such.

  • The national sport, badminton, and is played wherever a net, real or makeshift, can be set up for players to thwack the shuttlecock across to each other.

  • As an experienced practitioner of paddle tennis, squash, badminton, platform tennis, etc., over the past twenty years I have become convinced that a revised nomenclature for racquet sports is in order.


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