Example sentences for: trophies

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

  • Wealthy parents can talk endlessly at the country club about the costs of Maine summer camps, high-school semesters abroad, little Andrew's sailing trophies, and what hunt Sarah rides with regularly.

  • If patriots make a reverent pilgrimage to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (just off Lakeshore Boulevard West at Exhibition Place) to salute heroic athletes of the past, the separate Hockey Hall of Fame provides a tonic lesson for American visitors to recall, among the trophies, masks, skates, and hockey sticks, the fact that nearly all their ice hockey heroes are Canadian-born.

  • Later that month, one of Tresckow's associates had a bomb wired to his body, and followed Hitler through an exhibition of military trophies; Hitler mysteriously exited through a side door.

  • Members of car clubs are referred to as “clubbers,” and they compete for trophies, ride in car caravans, and often participate in fund-raising events.

  • The archives of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia contain a note dictated by a fellow of the college in 1944 that reads, "Recently a Japanese officer sent 210 Chinese heads to Japan as trophies to be displayed.


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