How to Use football in a Sentence
football
noun- He played a lot of football in high school and college.
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The ship is nearly the length of three football fields.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
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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
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The Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year for football fans.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
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The end of the year is college football’s moment to shine.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
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Branch hung out with the football team, Heird was around the baseball team.
—Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
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Steeves-Little signed to play football at the school last week.
—Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
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The Ravel, which is the length of a football field, has just 55 bedrooms.
—James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Williams' dad, Chris Williams, used to play football, too.
—Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
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But then on the first day of school, seniors gathered on the football field to watch the sunrise.
—USA Today, 7 June 2023
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This is turf from the high school football field, which is about a quarter-mile away.
—CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
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Works his tail off, loves to practice, loves to play football.
—Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
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The protests once again highlighted the power of the fans in German football.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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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
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For one thing, the NBC telecast marked the first time a college football game was shown at night in prime time.
—Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
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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
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At the events, a current or former football player will come to the school to read a Dr. Seuss book and speak to the students.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 19 Feb. 2025
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Welcome to The Top 25, a weekly rundown of the best of college football.
—C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
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The other side calls for a low-scoring, tight football game.
—Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
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Mack Hollins to block a linebacker, which is not good football in that regard.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 27 Dec. 2022
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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
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Soon the system spread to football teams throughout the midwest.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
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Check out this week’s nominees for the Huntsville area football player of the week and vote in the fan poll below.
—al, 6 Nov. 2022
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It’s not uncommon for high school football players to play on both sides of the ball.
—Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
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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
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There are 11 games on the college football Week 0 docket.
—Xl Media, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
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But all four of those men spent well over half their football careers in other cities.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
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The big picture: To ring in the New Year, a peach will drop, footballs will be thrown, and, just outside the metro, a building will implode.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 1 Jan. 2025
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Browning was named Pike Road’s head coach when the school started its football team in 2016 and took it to the state championship in its fourth varsity season.
—Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
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Furthermore, Leipzig was seen as the perfect next step, one of Germany’s top clubs that also played a style of football that was already familiar to Baku.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
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