Example sentences for: ex-basketball

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

  • By contrast, the NYT , in its front-page story, is quite taken with the two perjurers, an ex-basketball coach and a doctor, both of whom had been found guilty of lying about sex.

  • A profile of Magic Johnson, who launches his late-night talk show this week, admires the ex-basketball star for starting businesses in inner cities--his strategy is called "Black Capitalism."

  • While critics find the ex-basketball star irresistibly likable, his show "is a crashing bore" (Marvin Kitman, Newsday ). His monologues are judged clunky and not funny, and "his mode of interviewing consists mainly of salivating over guests for being on the show" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angeles Times ). It uses the same A-list of stars who appear on Leno and Letterman, leading critics to wonder, "How many talk shows does any viewer need?"


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