How to Use football scholarship in a Sentence

football scholarship

noun

• Derek, tall and buff, had arrived at MSU from Atlanta on a football scholarship.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• Carly went to foster care and Spencer moved in with his grandparents and, later, his half-brother Cody, who helped get him through high school and to college on a football scholarship.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
• The football scholarship that had taken him from his hometown of Savannah to Kentucky State College ran out of funding.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Although Forest went to college on a football scholarship, an injury led him to abandon sports and pursue singing and acting.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• The family always talked about Elmer’s amazing football scholarship that got him through college, Shuff said.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Mangini, who will play linebacker on a football scholarship at the Naval Academy next year, was decisive on the run and sliced through the big Army-Navy defensive front on crucial plays.
  — Richard J, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
• The high school senior, who was set to attend Jacksonville State on a football scholarship, was shot along with multiple other teens and his mother, who sustained two gunshot wounds, per thenewspaper.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2023
• Dowdell planned to attend Jacksonville State University on a football scholarship.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• In 1983, Scott graduated from Stall and went to Presbyterian College on a football scholarship.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• Ray studied drafting in high school and attended Western Washington University on a football scholarship.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• The football program agreed to a bowl ban in 2020, and reduced its football scholarship totals by eight over a two-year period and also restricted recruiting visits, evaluations and communication.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 22 June 2023
• Ray attended West Washington University on a football scholarship.
  — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024