How to Use footrace in a Sentence

footrace

noun

• In the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
• The sophomore won the footrace and finished on the breakaway.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Think of LinkedIn like a footrace: at the center of the pack are a whole bunch of people.
  — Adrian Dayton, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• He and Billy Hamilton need to have a footrace to see who’s the fastest guy in the game.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• The final 100-yards of the mile were a footrace between Sainsbury and Gorze.
  — Nikstreng, oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2023
• There are few if any players in the game who can beat Gordon in a footrace.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The planet’s most fabled footrace is all about tactics, just as the Olympics are.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• That set up a footrace to the other end of the floor, with Ross forwarding the ball to Fournier, who made a bum rush to break the Spurs’ hearts.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Mar. 2020
• Moore did the rest, winning the 78-yard footrace to the end zone to give Texas its first score just 19 seconds into the season.
  — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
• Jalen Battles fielded the grounder, won the footrace to second, and fired to first to complete the double play.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 June 2022
• Seacrest’s pig, who was decked out in a New England jersey, won the footrace by a landslide.
  — PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Right now the team is sponsoring the Flippin 5K, a virtual footrace that runs through the end of the month.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2021
• This wasn’t like standing at the starting line of a footrace because the boat and the water don't stop moving.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2021
• Mount Marathon, the annual footrace up and back down the steep and rocky slopes, will be taking place on Monday.
  — Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
• Mount Marathon, the annual footrace up and back down the steep and rocky slopes, will take place Tuesday, July 4.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• In a footrace with a defender to the end zone, White shrugged the tackler off with a strong stiff arm and produced some deft footwork to stay in bounds.
  — Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 23 Oct. 2021
• Mount Marathon, the annual footrace up and back down the steep and rocky slopes, will be taking place on Monday, July 4.
  — Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2022
• An ultramarathon is any footrace longer than the marathon distance, which is 26.2 miles.
  — Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
• Or the strong safety who knows he’s about to lose a footrace on national television.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
• Then there was only open space and a footrace, which Williams won by heaving his body toward the goal line and plunging into the end zone.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
• England tries a quick counter, but Subasic wins a footrace with Rashford.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• And Howard rocketed through a hole and beat a slew of Longhorns in a sideline footrace on a go-ahead 71-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Nov. 2021
• Geay won a footrace for second, 10 seconds behind the winner and 2 seconds ahead of Kipruto.
  — CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
• The 21-year-old defenseman lost a footrace on one goal, and failed to assert himself in front of Detroit’s net on another.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2019
• The long-range forecast for Sunday's footrace back and forth over the Ohio River calls for mid-60 degree temperatures.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2022
• Who can say, in a year when the planet’s most fabled footrace is being held in the autumn for the first time after an unprecedented hiatus?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
• Since earlier this month, there had been something of a footrace in space, with India and Russia vying to be the first country to land a spacecraft in the moon’s south polar region.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• There also is a footrace, the Halloween Hustle, which this year is taking place virtually.
  — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2020
• The day’s champion was Finlay Wild, a whip-thin mountain runner who has won an annual footrace up and down Ben Nevis seven times.
  — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2017
• What the reigning king of his sport will do Monday morning is finally take his shot at the planet’s most fabled footrace and check off one of the few vacant boxes on his To Do list.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024