How to Use basketball in a Sentence

basketball

noun

• Fans were amused by the basketball team taking the city's public transit system.
  — Marina Watts, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• That’s life for a team at the center of a controversial spotlight on the big stage of major college basketball.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Mar. 2023
• This season’s team, with nine new players, generally played an uninspired brand of basketball.
  — Adam Zagoria, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The two met while playing basketball, and Watkins later noticed Hodge’s talent.
  — Essence, 23 Oct. 2024
• The Golden Eagles are taking care of the basketball with only one turnover to Xavier's six.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2023
• Yet there’s no guarantee that these Warriors will be playing postseason basketball.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
• Wisconsin high schools have produced a steady supply of talented basketball players in recent seasons.
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2024
• Pickens will command the Generals to the program’s first semistate championship in the class era of Indiana high school basketball.
  — Thomas Butler-Guerrero, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2023
• The 66-year-old Adams had carved out a reputation coaching different levels of basketball throughout west Texas.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• His mother, Holly, played basketball at the University of Oregon.
  — Nasha Smith, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• The new pop-a-shot basketball game would have to wait for after a win.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
• On the basketball floor, Bridges has been one of the Hornets’ top players.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
• There's a swimming pool and creek for the kids to splash in, plus a horseshoe pit and basketball courts.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Not just on the basketball court, but in pop culture too.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• It’s been a long, up-and-down basketball season for St. John Bosco.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• The empty swimming pool and weedy basketball courts gave the place a kind of haunted charm.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• The Marquette men's basketball team could use a pick-me-up after a stretch that has them at 2-3 in Big East play.
  — Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• The pain was profound in the Gophers men’s basketball team’s loss at Iowa on Sunday.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2024
• The Marquette men’s basketball team could be losing one of its key players to the NBA.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• With that, the conversation turned back to basketball as the Kings embark on a 13-day road trip that could set the course for the rest of the season.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• Gwynn was a third-rounder who played more basketball than baseball at San Diego State.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
• Home movies show a tiny Steph dribbling a huge basketball.
  — Bill Edelstein, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• Then reports emerged of messy shows in the acoustic hell of basketball arenas.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2023
• Never seen that before in a basketball court in an NBA game.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
• To top it off, Kismet sports a garage full of water toys and a basketball and pickleball court.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• Last weekend, Steph Curry helped the U.S. men’s basketball team take home a gold medal.
  — Kristen Tauer, WWD, 16 Aug. 2024
• Renee told Dateline the 11-year-old had spent the night at a friend’s house and was supposed to meet her mother to go to a basketball game.
  — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 27 June 2024
• That’s how many games the US women’s national basketball team has won in a row.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• The freshman guard was cleared by doctors to return to basketball at the end of November.
  — Rishikesh Rajagopalan, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Parents relaxed in the shade as children played on the basketball court and football field.
  — Allison Robbert, Washington Post, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024