How to Use cricket in a Sentence

cricket

noun

• In 1900 in Paris, men’s cricket was on the program, but two of the four teams scheduled to play did not turn up.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The music fades and where there were the nocturnal crickets at the start, now there are ocean waves.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2023
• As birds slowed their songs, crickets filled the false twilight with their chirping.
  — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
• When the lights turned off, a chorus of cricket chirping erupted.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
• The Dallas-area resident who got hooked on cricket through TV about a year ago brought his son to see a match.
  — Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• The smell of the clean air and marshmallows toasting on the campfire, the sound of crickets chirping, the feeling of the grass with fresh morning dew drops.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 13 Apr. 2023
• Geale is hopeful cricket will be added as an Olympic sport for 2028, when the Games are in Los Angeles.
  — Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• If there’s any kind of cricket that will lure Americans, T20 is likely to be it.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 13 July 2023
• The steady hum of crickets was our soundtrack until singing bowls replaced them.
  — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
• The crickets eat their way through crops in their path, causing losses for farmers.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• To bearded dragons, crickets and roaches are a treat, like ice cream, Dr. Paz said.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
• The late Donald Bradman was the best batsman to ever play cricket.
  — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023
• The next edition of the Summer Games, in Los Angeles in 2028, will mark the debut of cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• India's home record in Test cricket reads like this: 36 wins and just two losses from 44 matches.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• In recent decades, cricket has led the charge on fair pay for female athletes in Australia.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Some tree cricket species in our area, like the snowy tree cricket and Riley’s tree cricket, make pleasant, pulsed songs.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• One day, Spencer was alone inside a locker room changing his clothes to play cricket when a male teacher walked in.
  — Cynthia McFadden, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
• Since then, the cricket icon turned politician has faced a litany of legal issues — and has dozens of pending cases against him.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes the composers even threw in a frog ribbit or cricket chirp in this golden age of nature mashups.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• There were a bunch of cricket playing, Pimm's drinking people.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
• In many cases, their names—pig frogs, cricket frogs—indicate what kind of noise to expect.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
• Some of the flowers are wilting, and a cricket and butterfly sit among the petals collected on a ledge below.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Mouthwear in crickets was compared with that of tyrannosaurids.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• The Sahara group was also a long time sponsor of India’s national cricket team, but lost the rights to the Star India group in 2013.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
• There were no matches or flames, but there were lanterns, chirping crickets, fir trees swirled with haze and, at one point, a zombie attack.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• Choose from rain sounds to a cat purring, crickets chirping, a clothes dryer, pink noise, and everything in between, or add your own.
  — Courtenay Rudzinski, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
• Is a cricket sweater essential to every man's wardrobe?
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
• Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• That saved us from paying someone to come out each month to spray for flies, ants, spiders, mosquitoes and crickets.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
• Not just of three of them playing, but also of the spaces between: the sounds of the barn, its birds and its crickets, the length of the guitar cable, a sense of distance, but never too much.
  — Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024