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Example sentences for: quarterback

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

A quarterback at the University of Oklahoma, he led his team to two Orange Bowl championships but never made it from the Canadian Football League to the NFL.
The heroes are Coach Bill Parcells, who lifted the team from 1-15 record two years ago to 12-4 this year (beating his former team, the New England Patriots, twice this year), and quarterback Vinny Testaverde, who staged one of football's greatest individual comebacks by winning 12 of 13 games he started, passing for a Jets-record 29 touchdowns and leading the conference in passing.
The hero was 38-year-old Broncos quarterback John Elway, who passed for 336 yards and ran for a touchdown to put the game away.
The catcher is essentially the quarterback of baseball, only without the huge endorsement contracts.
Jack Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills quarterback who ran for vice president on Bob Dole's ticket, has always been too much of a rah-rah type to complain about political cheap shots.