How to Use half-court in a Sentence

half-court

noun

• Walker Park has one full-sized court with two goals and two half-courts with a goal each.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2023
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Games are played in a half-court setting and have unique rules, such as a four-point shot and the winner being the first to 50 points.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
• Martinez drained a half-court shot at the buzzer, giving the Sailors a 45-44 victory.
  — Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
• The top two teams after those events will then shoot half-court shots to decide a winner.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 18 Feb. 2023
• Even Payton Pritchard rained down a half-court buzzer-beater again, as if that was his job.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
• Houston’s last chance, fittingly, was a half-court heave from Brooks that would’ve stolen the game.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The power of Clark’s half-court three-pointers will be a part of that continued growth.
  — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• The key for the Terrapins is to slow the game down so both attacks have to operate in a half-court setting.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• Outdoors is a pool, half-court basketball court, pool house and three-car garage.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
• The Irish guards blew up every handoff and disrupted the flow of UConn’s half-court offense.
  — Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
• After Palmer sank the first of two free throws, putting her over 1,000 career points, the Vikings jumped around together at half-court.
  — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• In the matchup, Barajas had to drain one three-pointer from the logo at half-court before Lillard could make three.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
• The teams will play in Miami on a compressed full court (see the first-look image above), unlike the men’s pro Big3 league which plays on a half-court.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• With under a minute to go, Guiney took the ball inside her own 3-point arc, dribbled across half-court, went behind the back and slalomed her way to the basket for a layup.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
• Michigan's lead was 50-49 when McDaniel corralled a loose ball and threw a half-court alley-oop to Tray Jackson.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• Loch Raven used a series of traps and half-court defenses to confound the Perry Hall offense.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
• Coach Kevin Willard said the key to fueling those runs has been an offense that executes to set up the team’s full- and half-court press packages.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024
• As part of a halftime promotion, fans who successfully make a half-court shot win a grand prize of free Chick-fil-A for a year.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
• When Orlando’s half-court offense seemed stuck in the mud, the Magic had no choice but to take advantage of Charlotte’s turnovers.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• After the game, Pitino symbolically placed the sweater on the St. John’s logo at half-court.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
• But opponents most fear Murray as a tall, quick-release catch-and-shoot weapon from out to nearly 30 feet in a half-court setting.
  — Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• Working them in transition instead of coming down and trying to play half-court offense all the time.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
• The All-Star Game has become a farce of a basketball game: guys chucking up shots from half-court and trying stupid dunks, all while not even a sniff of defense can be found.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
• The offense is fluid, guards have figured out when to push in transition and when to utilize Jones as a half-court playmaker.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
• Cameron Payne and other teammates took turns bringing the ball up the court, freeing Brunson to exert less energy to get the Knicks into half-court sets.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
• Freshman guard McKenzie-Alyse Saffold added 11 points, including a half-court basket at the buzzer to end the first quarter.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
• In five-on-five, most half-court sets aren’t designed to use every player; someone inevitably ends up as a spacer or decoy.
  — Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• The players and their coaches, including Mr. Mascher, stood at half-court, hugged one another and cried.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025