Example sentences for: racket

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

  • It's almost a protection racket.

  • For those not in the academic racket, or with kids long out of college or not long out of diapers, it might seem a trifling matter.

  • But Karen E. Quiñones Miller, a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer who is writing a book on Johnson, says that while St. Clair was in fact imprisoned for eight months, it was during 1929, before the fight started for control of the Harlem racket.

  • The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.

  • Another minor variation on this theme is the vagueness related to squash, squash racquets, racquets , and squash tennis . All these games, of course, are basically the same in principle in that they involve playing a ball off four walls with a strung racket, the difference being in the dimensions of the court, the shape and size of the racket, and the size and make-up of the ball.


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