How to Use athlete in a Sentence

athlete

noun

• She was quite an athlete as a child.
• Athletes from around the world will be competing at the Olympics.
• The athlete could be then heard laughing at the joke at the end of the video.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• Vote now:Who's your pick for the Louisville high school boys athlete of the week?
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some of them said Quinn had told them the athletes’ names.
  — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2023
• Here’s a look at their first week back in the thick of the student-athlete life.
  — Emily Hollwedel, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
• Get your votes in for the high school track and field athletes of the week by noon Friday.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• Both of these athletes know what works well for their body type.
  — Essence, 2 May 2024
• Please note, there will be no athlete of the week voting next week, Dec. 26-30.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 20 Dec. 2022
• Each athlete’s road to Mount Hood—and to sports in the first place—is different.
  — Allison Torres Burtka, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2022
• But, for many of these athletes, their life is much more than touchdowns and field goals.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
• Gavin was the epitome of a student-athlete, and a leader on and off the field.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
• The athlete was Washington's first-round pick as the fifth pick overall in the 2004 NFL draft.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• The springy swingman is one of the best athletes in league history.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• At the time of his cardiac arrest, Carter was an elite athlete, playing games in both Brazil and the U.S.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 22 Feb. 2024
• For decades, the best athletes in northern Scotland would compete in the Cabrach Games.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Fiddling with her phone to film her athletes like a proud parent and not a head coach.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Just so much range, great in zone, can fly, just that type of athlete with ball skills is special.
  — Mark Long, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
• As an elite athlete, as an elite soccer player, that’s the point.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• The athlete’s first instinct was correct — Swift performed a total of 149 shows over the course of the Eras Tour‘s run.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2024
• In 1951, he was named the country's top amateur athlete by the AAU.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
• For two-plus decades, as the wrestling coach at Methuen High, Bill James has been making sure each of his athletes is cared for.
  — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Oregonian/OregonLive find who the top athlete of the week was.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2022
• One of the best ways to improve your performance as an athlete is to build up your strength.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
• Some 36 of the leading athletes had been scheduled to compete in Snow League.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Mar. 2025
• Sports: Asking for input on how high to rank a player in a list of 100 athletes.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• Since then, she has been spotted at three more of Travis' games as well as on number of date nights with the athlete.
  — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
• The readers’ choice high school sports boys athlete of the year poll will be open until 8 p.m. Sunday.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2024
• So if the investment is there, the games are available and women’s sports have never been more popular—why are athletes still struggling?
  — Haley Rosen, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
• The form resembles how other athletes run when fatigued, looks wasteful, and often, harshly, draws comparisons to Bambi on ice.
  — Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025