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Example sentences for: playoffs

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

The Mets, who barely made the playoffs after a dismal mid-season performance, are competing with Boston for recognition as the "Cinderella team."
The regular season and playoffs have eliminated more quixotic teams: The Donald Trump-like Baltimore Orioles, willing to spend endless millions to prove their incompetence; the Alan Keyesian Chicago Cubs, hopeless but mesmerizing; the Reform Partyesque Boston Red Sox, erratic, crazy, but with just enough brilliance to be dangerous.
Having already pushed aside the once-feared San Francisco 49ers and Buffalo Bills, the two expansion teams ousted the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos in the weekend playoffs.
With free-agency, expansion, and three levels of playoffs, it is much harder to win today than in past years.
The paper says the new presidential tool creates "post-season budget playoffs."