sports

Example Sentences

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“People who are just casual sports fans, or people who are not even sports fans, will go and fall in love with the game for the first time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Within a week he secured a temporary role at a hospital, and within a month he was working at a university with athletes from many sports.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Among the choicest: The champion skier from Norway starts his day with a breakfast that his father finds revolting, and he’s “too afraid” of downhill cycling to consider switching sports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

But it gave viewers some sense of what players, pitchers and umpires were figuring out in real time: What counts as a ball and a strike in the most subjective of all spectator sports?

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

“We tried to get an interview with young Eddie Ball,” the sports guy said.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman