Example sentences for: sports

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

  • Bob Greene reports that Jordan--the greatest basketball player of all time--was motivated by a sports fantasy: that he'd be batting for the White Sox in his first professional baseball game, and would hit a home run, round the bases and, never stopping running, just head straight from home plate to the tunnel leading out of the stadium, disappearing in front of the awed crowd.

  • The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious.

  • Sang said the organizers, Turner Sports, assured her they would cover all costs after a highly publicized vaulting accident July 21 left her with severe spinal cord damage.

  • Mickey Herskowitz, a sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle originally hired for the job, was fired in July following a dispute about what the book should contain.

  • Team , now also a sports word, is rooted in tow , and originally referred to the set of horses used to draw a vehicle.


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