How to Use football in a Sentence

football

noun

• He played a lot of football in high school and college.
• The ship is nearly the length of three football fields.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• And that leaves the Pac-12 with one Division I football choice in this part of the world.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
• Steeves-Little signed to play football at the school last week.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• But then on the first day of school, seniors gathered on the football field to watch the sunrise.
  — USA Today, 7 June 2023
• This is turf from the high school football field, which is about a quarter-mile away.
  — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
• The protests once again highlighted the power of the fans in German football.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• His body had recovered, and Smith now had time for the life that football had stolen from him.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• On Friday night, the high school football game is an island of light in a sea of darkness.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• But at North, the school resource officer was also the head coach of the football team — and still is.
  — Meg Anderson, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
• The series races through the rest of the football season in its last two episodes with no objective at all.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
• But all four of those men spent well over half their football careers in other cities.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
• This was a football game, not a call to put out a fire or to investigate a homicide.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
• Court documents state the plaintiff drove to the school and delivered the leis to members of the St. Louis football team.
  — Justin Spears, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
• Ma’s office is a giant box of lasers the size of three football fields in the corner of a 7,000-acre lab in Livermore.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Lazenby said his love of the game of football has not wavered in nearly five decades of coaching.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• Speaking of college football, the season is in full swing.
  — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• The iconic norteño band was formed in the Bay Area back in 1968 and has been an avid supporter of the NorCal football team ever since.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• Warren’s Jordan Ellis looks like a lot of things, but football novice isn’t one of them.
  — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2024
• The ship — about 157 feet wide and longer than three football fields, according to MarineTraffic.com — stayed in Baltimore for three days.
  — Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• Even in football, there’s the term villamelón — someone who wears the jersey of whoever the winning team is at the time.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
• Simpson, the football player and actor acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend, died on April 10 at the age of 76.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• The conservative justices upheld a high school football coach’s right to lead a prayer on the field.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
• The surest sign a college football program is in trouble is when the alumni grow restless.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• For Gentry, the decision comes on the heels of his best four-week stretch as a college football player.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Law enforcement found an adult victim with gunshot wounds at the entrance to the football field.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
• The Heisman ballot says to vote for the best collegiate football player.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Chloe is determined to find her, and teams up with Shara's football player boyfriend and Shara's neighbor.
  — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 19 Aug. 2023
• Suddenly, lights blazed on, and a football field appeared from the shadows.
  — Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• Gearing up for football season—whichever sport that means to you?
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024