sport

Example Sentences

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Hockey was a bruising, inelegant sport played in the frozen tundra of Canada and the upper Midwest when Vachon was traded from the Montreal Canadiens to the Kings in the winter of 1971.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Bhosle's love for cricket was well known, with the sport being one of her favorite pastimes.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

If the sport was going to survive in the desert it needed stars, it needed personalities and it needed a cultural makeover — especially in Los Angeles, where the box-office draw was everything.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

By tying boxing to a platform of that scale, the sport has regained a level of mainstream exposure it has not enjoyed since the terrestrial boom of the 1990s.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Hitler stressed the importance of physical training in every kind of sport and gymnastics.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti