How to Use line judge in a Sentence

line judge

noun

• The line judge called the ball out and Gauff did not keep it in play.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 30 July 2024
• The line judge called the shot out, per The Guardian, so Gauff didn’t keep the ball in play.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 30 July 2024
• The ball hit a female line judge, who dropped to her knees at the back of the court.
  — Howard Fendrich, Houston Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2020
• The ball flew right at the line judge, who dropped to her knees at the back of the court and reached for her neck.
  — Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• As the line judge made their call, Gauff returned the ball into the net.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
• The ball hit a female line judge, who dropped to her knees at the back of the court and reached for her neck.
  — Howard Fendrich, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• Gordon Riese, the line judge, had the best view of the last lateral.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2022
• The moment might have gone unremarked had the ball not struck a line judge in the neck.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• There’s a flag on the ground because the line judge had Georgia offside.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 10 Feb. 2020
• During the first set of their match, Zhang hit a forehand that appeared to hit the line, but the line judge ruled the ball was out.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• During the match, a line judge called a ball that landed near the baseline out and Gauff did not keep the ball in play.
  — NBC News, 30 July 2024
• The very next point, the same line judge called Monfils’ shot in to the dismay of Medvedev, who left the ball expecting an out call to come.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• The others, Carl Johnson (line judge) and Greg Steed (back judge), were drawn from other crews.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
• Lynch ran into the scrum from the sideline and shoved line judge Julian Mapp, who was holding the running back.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• While Pliskova was serving for the match at 30-15, Sabalenka hit a ball towards the baseline that was called out by the line judge.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 8 July 2021
• The Video Assistant Referee crew took a closer look, overruled the line judge, and called it a goal.
  — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 25 June 2018
• And a small army of volunteers, ballkids, umpires and line judges, and catering staff.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• Federer got into a dispute with a line judge and the chair umpire over cursing.
  — Howard Fendrich, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2020
• Late in the first half, Diaz scored with a shot from distance that found the bottom corner, but the goal was disallowed as the line judge called Diaz offsides.
  — Nick Celario, oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2022
• Novak Djokovic was defaulted in the fourth round for hitting a ball that inadvertently struck a line judge in the throat.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• That, of course, was when Djokovic unintentionally hit a line judge in the throat with a ball in a fit of anger — resulting in him being thrown out.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• He was defaulted from the U.S. Open in the fourth round after inadvertently hitting a line judge in the throat with a tennis ball.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• While having a conversation with a line judge, Joseph broke out the perfect look of disbelief.
  — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
• Lynch, a close friend of Peters, ended up shoving line judge Julian Mapp and getting ejected .
  — Josh Dubow, sacbee, 19 Oct. 2017
• Here’s another question along those lines: Who was the line judge on that side and what are his affiliations?
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2020
• Yimmi Chara appeared to tie things up in the 69th minute, but his breakaway goal was called back after the line judge indicated offsides.
  — oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022
• Despite the clarity of the rules, Djokovic pleaded his case for several minutes, saying that the line judge would not need to go to a hospital.
  — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2020
• The Serbian was disqualified last week after hitting a line judge with a ball during his fourth-round game of the grand slam against Pablo Carreno Busta.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• Former tennis player Steve Darcis jokingly gave credit to the one person who was able to break Djokovic's winning run -- the line judge.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 7 Sep. 2020
• At the time of disqualification, Rublev yelled a Russian obscenity in the face of a line judge; as a result, he was thrown out of the tournament, per Tennis.com.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024