How to Use most valuable player in a Sentence

most valuable player

noun

• Steer has a case as the Reds’ most valuable player in 2023.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 1 July 2023
• He was named the league's most valuable player in 2000.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• He was named third-team All-Big Ten and was Michigan’s most valuable player.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• He was voted to the Pro Bowl and is a finalist for most valuable player.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Now 39 and a four-time N.F.L. most valuable player, he was recently traded to the Jets.
  — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The next best chance for the Nuggets comes now, eight years after the Denver arrival of Jokic, the two-time reigning most valuable player.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• No wonder Betts has won a most valuable player award and finished second in the voting three times.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
• The three-time most valuable player, with a helmet on his head, an extra padded batting glove on his left hand and a bat in the other, approached the plate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Yelich went on to be named the National League's most valuable player that season and finished as runner-up to Cody Bellinger in 2019.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
• Most of the awards are typical, the offensive and defensive players of the year, coach of the year, the league's most valuable player, but one of the honors is not like the others.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• To determine the finalists, voters were asked to rank their top five picks for most valuable player and their top three for the other awards.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
• Ohtani finished his season as the favorite to win the American League most valuable player award.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• Holmes’s counterintuitive idea to turn around the team began with trading away the team’s most valuable player.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
• Ohtani had played well enough to win his second American League most valuable player award even though he’d be shut down for the season after three games in September.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Any question who should be viewed as the favorite to be crowned the American League’s most valuable player, Aaron Judge’s opening-day homer notwithstanding?
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Ravens have the league’s most valuable player at quarterback and the league’s best defensive coordinator leading the other unit.
  — Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
• The championship win also earned her the title of NCAA women’s basketball’s most valuable player.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 13 July 2023
• Ballard head coach Alan Jones said about his defending state championship game most valuable player.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2023
• The guard was a two-time all-SEC tournament selection and most valuable player in 2021, leading the Tide to two automatic qualifiers.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 14 July 2023
• Martin was arguably the Heat’s most valuable player in last season’s Eastern Conference finals series against the Celtics.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2024
• Fallston’s single game most valuable player earns the Dawg Bone, a years-long tradition suggested by a former player.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• Driesell played center at Duke in the 1950s, after leading Granby High to a Virginia state championship and earning most valuable player honors in the tournament.
  — Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2024
• This is, after all, is a man who grew up in unimaginable poverty in Greece, and became not only an NBA champion and most valuable player, but also one of the most admired athletes on the planet.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Great players cannot maximize their talent without other great players around them, said Warner, a two-time NFL most valuable player.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Before the 2016 most valuable player officially re-signed with the team Friday, Sparks executives spoke publicly about her return and her role in the franchise’s rebuild.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Derrick White: White probably has outperformed expectations more than any other Celtic, and it could be argued that he’s been the second-most valuable player after Tatum.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• Not even a season derailed by injuries that affected his two-way abilities could have stopped him from winning his second American League most valuable player award.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Perez recently surpassed 1,500 career points and has received many career honors including first team all-district, defensive player of the year and district most valuable player.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024