How to Use award in a Sentence

award

1 of 2 verb

• The judges will award a prize to the best speaker.
• The winner was awarded a gold medal.
• A prize will be awarded to the student who sells the most tickets.
• The company is awarding the contract to the lowest bidder.
• The jury awarded damages to the defendant.
• He was awarded a patent for his invention.
• In fact, Stanford has won the Directors’ Cup 26 times in the 29 seasons the cup has been awarded.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2009.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• He was awarded Rookie of the Year after his first season, the youngest player to ever receive the award.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Her writing has been top rated and awarded, as well as placed on Coverfly’s The Red List.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 2 June 2023
• Judge's catch may have prevented a run from scoring, but Muncy was awarded second base because Judge left the field of play to snag the ball.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
• That eliminates the one-and-one scenario and sets new foul limits each quarter for awarding the bonus free throw.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• For the fiscal year 2022, in the first round of scholarships awarded, nine vouchers went to kids doing home schooling.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• They’re also awarded Honors, which is the resource used to increase the size of squads or add more military squads.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of all time, will receive the Fashion Icon award, the first to be awarded to an athlete.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• The largest was $1.6 billion, awarded to a winner in Florida in August.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• Maas was awarded nearly $1.8 million from the company that owns KUSI.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• She was awarded $5 million in damages in that case, which Trump is appealing.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 28 June 2023
• On the episode, Evans surprised Currie by welcoming a Guinness representative to the set to award him the record for the world’s hottest pepper.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• MetroHealth was awarded an A for equity and value, and B for outcomes.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 July 2023
• That’s the sort of premium awarded to shooting stars at the beginning of their biggest growth phases.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Oppenheimer was awarded a doctorate in physics in May of 1927.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 July 2023
• The event’s winner receives a trophy; no money is awarded to the competitors.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• The exes will remain neighbors as one of Kardashian's Hidden Hills homes is next door to an estate that West was awarded in the split.
  — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• Musk was set to be honored for his entrepreneurship, while Murdoch was to be awarded for his career as a media mogul.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• That decision was overturned on appeal in 2022, awarding the artist the trademark.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Quincy native had been married for just six months, and was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• Guild voters have shown a willingness to award their top trophy to female directors of late.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 10 Feb. 2024
• In addition to awarding two foul shorts for all common fouls, teams will reach the bonus when their opponent commits five fouls in a quarter.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2023
• Even though neighbors were awarded damages through the lawsuit, Smithfield was not required to stop its practices.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023

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award

2 of 2 noun

• Will the film win any awards at the festival?
• She has won numerous awards for her books.
• The album shipped over two million copies and won the Soundtrack of the Year award at the 1995 Source Awards.
  — Ade Adeniji, SPIN, 20 Mar. 2024
• The award ceremony will take place on the evening of March 23.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2024
• The award presentation was planned for the team's Pride Night on June 16.
  — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 17 May 2023
• The young star of the film, Seydou Sarr, won the award for best emerging actor or actress.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
• In the world of Hollywood award shows, this year got off to a turbulent start.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• Maybe this is a reminder that all awards shows should drop the genres and just go with best acting.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• Ali Wong was booked, busy, and winning awards this past weekend.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• He was joined on the awards podium by freshman CJ Sayavongsa, who scored 52.3 points to finish fifth.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2023
• Lopez was unable to attend, and her son Rio Yanez accepted the award.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
• The singer also became the most award artist in Grammys history this year, with 32 wins to her name.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 1 June 2023
• Mitchell won the award based on her work in her hometown of Cincinnati and in Indianapolis.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 5 June 2023
• Mann & Weil received a trustees award from the Recording Academy in 2015.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 June 2023
• With two gigantic blockbusters in the mix, will this year’s awards inch back over the twenty-million mark for the first time since 2020?
  — The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
• The award-winning Florida journalist appears to be the last reporter to speak to the deputy.
  — USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023
• The show, nominated for 12 Tony awards, cost around $16 million to put on.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 10 May 2023
• In the midst of earning awards left and right, Jelly Roll is still finding time to focus on his health journey.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Perhaps this is what led the film to win the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival last year.
  — Cate Blanchett, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• The trailer highlights the group as they were awarded trophies at awards shows and headlined massive shows across the world.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
• However, Will and Grace star Megan Mullally took home the award.
  — Brittany Natale, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• Touching, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, this Finnish gem might be the little awards contender that could.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• Already the four-time Pac-12 freshman of the week — winning the award all four weeks of the young season — Watkins added the conference’s top player honor last week.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Actors Theatre of Louisville presents the show by the award-winning ensemble Universe.
  — The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2023
• The couple was seen leaving the awards ceremony in a black car and they were spotted in a yellow cab later.
  — Max Foster, CNN, 17 May 2023
• The two actors — who have both portrayed the Joker within the past five years — met briefly at Sunday’s award show in Los Angeles.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Five finalists are vying for the Student Recognition Award, and the winner will be announced at the awards gala.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
• This award-winning brush was developed 100 years ago and is made from the finest premium-grade boar bristles.
  — Natalie Alcala, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
• The company said the AMCC did not have the authority to void the earlier license awards.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• The awards ceremony came just a few days after Mother's Day on May 14, making the nods to her mother and mother-in-law all the more thoughtful.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024