Example sentences for: racing

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

  • Every week the locals enjoy football and horse racing — the former is Hungary’s most popular spectator sport.

  • Other attractions here include a variety of water sports, a marina, the fishing harbor, a sailing school, the waterslides of the Mijas Aqua Park, the El Cartujano horse show, and horse racing at the newly opened Mijas Hippodrome.

  • Camel racing is a big event at Jaisalmer in February and also in the autumn festival at Pushkar (see page 209).

  • The death of Roy Rogers gets a surprising amount of coverage: sure, a thumbnail picture/reefer at USAT , but also top-front-with-picture at the LAT , below-the-fold-front at the WP , and a big front-page picture/reefer at the NYT . The NYT editorial (!) puts Proust on the plains with, "For many viewers, the picture of Roy Rogers, aglint in the sun, racing across the harmless West upon Trigger, is a picture as invincible to time as a childhood memory."

  • But that transformation won't happen until the third episode; meanwhile, Anakin is a conventionally industrious juvenile with a penchant for building droids from scratch and "pod racing"--an activity that he demonstrates in one of the movie's most impressive but irrelevant special effects set pieces, a whiplash hyperdrive permutation of the chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959).


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