Example sentences for: football

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

  • The cover story explains the race controversy in Decatur, Ill.: The expulsion of six black students (for fighting at a football game) that has outraged Jesse Jackson is viewed as an attempt to halt the white flight that has undercut the city's tax base.

  • On the whole, the national press has a sneering stereotypical view of the state, which you'd think was overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek, but no one sneers with more relish than the Times . Maybe it dates back to the trouble Molly Ivins had as the paper's Denver bureau chief.

  • Popular mostly with football and basketball players.

  • But football, there's a spectator sport that I really enjoy (though this year, with the Jets flailing so miserably, it has been painful, tragic, and somewhat dull).

  • The community--both on and off campus--worships the basketball and football gods, and favoritism for the top jocks is institutionalized in the name of fostering a sense of community.


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