How to Use Olympic in a Sentence

Olympic

adjective

• She won an Olympic medal in diving.
• But who should take home the gold in this Olympic year?
  — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 16 Aug. 2024
• Squash and flag football will be part of the Olympic sports list in four years’ time.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Aug. 2024
• Tori Bowie, an Olympic track star, died last month at age 32.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• Paris has been a long time coming for Gauff who’s had her sights set on the Olympic stage for the past three years.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
• The former track star is the son of Festus and Faith, two Olympic track stars from Nigeria.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Biathlon is the only Winter Olympic sport in which the United States has not won a medal.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Good luck to Ryan at both the Olympic trials and his sophomore swim season.
  — Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• On a train ride home, a boy recognized the Olympic athlete and asked for a photo.
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
• The big brands gravitate toward the Olympic stars, both on the field and on social media.
  — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
• And on that weekend night in April 1984, the Olympic basketball hopefuls crashed a prom.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2023
• The next city in line gets to send its people to study every part of the Olympic operation.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• The one Olympic improvement locals welcome is a new bridge that will connect to the beach in front of Chopes.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
• Mountain biking was added as an Olympic sport for men and women in 1996 at the Games in Atlanta.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 13 May 2023
• Rooms in many of the best hotels have already been snapped up by Olympic partners and other VIPs.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2023
• In the summer, clay tennis courts and an Olympic sized pool are filled with travelers who shy away from the flashy Ibiza scene.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2023
• Artistic and Olympic feats have been bound together since the dawn of the modern games in the late 19th century.
  — Christian House, CNN, 23 July 2024
• Hayes, an Olympic gold medalist sprinter, was drafted in the seventh round by the Cowboys in 1964.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Maybe those friends had Olympic size pools and guest houses to hang out in—but the comfort and ease of my husband's childhood home were more of a draw.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• The above ground pools have been used in the U.S. Olympic trials in recent years because they can be installed anywhere.
  — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• In 2002, Hughes won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating in what has been dubbed one of the greatest upsets in the history of the sport.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 17 May 2023
• Where the idea of eating for sustenance turns your Olympic stomach?
  — Peter Chakerian, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• Flipping the piece over reveals the Olympic flame which symbolizes peace, friendship, and hope.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
• This was Ledecky’s fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Three years after her bid to make the 2020 Olympic team ended with an injury, Blakely is peaking at the right time.
  — CBS News, 2 June 2024
• So should Olympic sports in college, because there’s not a huge market or appetite to bet those sports.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 29 May 2023
• Djokovic made no secret of his desire for an Olympic gold, as a career capstone.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 4 Aug. 2024
• The online discourse stormed up again earlier this week when the Fever rookie was left off of the Olympic roster.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
• The Olympic swimmer said the wedding colors were blue and green, which happen to be both of their birthstone colors.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 6 Dec. 2023
• Some would call this hubris, others the swagger of a top athlete entering his prime in an Olympic year.
  — Amanda Davies, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024