kickoff

Example Sentences

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The NFL’s drastically altered kickoff format grew out of spring football.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Steinberger left before the Super Bowl kickoff to record a conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Umber said that both the symphony and youth orchestra will return in “Beethoven 9,” the kickoff to “Celebrating Gustavo at the Bowl.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

It was the local chapter’s bimonthly meeting and also a kickoff event for a year during which they planned to build on an already impressive foothold in L.A. politics.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

He had come back to the team in 1975 and returned a kickoff fifty yards in the Bluebonnet Bowl against Colorado.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger