How to Use personal best in a Sentence

personal best

noun

• His 73-point game is his personal best and a team best.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
• The Carter product set a personal best in the event, clocking in at 10.71 seconds to win the race’s first heat.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
• Mu entered the meet with a personal best of 4:16 but met the standard required to compete at the world meet.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• His personal best of 6-3 came in winning the 3A North Region meet.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
• Thompson has a personal best of 9.77 seconds, but couldn't match that in Paris.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2024
• But Afari was next in line, with eight tackles of his own, setting a single-game personal best for the Ohio native.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2023
• Peng scaled the wall in 4.85 seconds, a personal best for the Chinese climber, to consign Watson, who had been dominant all week, to the bronze medal climb.
  — Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• But the Norwegian clocked a personal best and led Nuguse to a place in history.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• Ody Oguama is now at 12 rebounds, one away from his personal best.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
• Richardson ran a remarkable 10.71, her personal best at the time.
  — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Faced with these record economic headwinds, that could be a personal best.
  — Jenn McMillen, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Fifteen withdrew mid-race, and the winning time for the women’s race was a full 10 minutes slower than the winner’s personal best.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
• Despite the wardrobe challenges, Johnson ran her personal best in the final, landing in second place.
  — Isabel Yip, NBC News, 9 July 2024
• His personal best in the distance category is 19 feet, 7 inches, an amazing feat for such a small dog.
  — Brent Frazee, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Hagans has recently switched from road racing to the marathon, but has proven capable with her 2:25 personal best.
  — Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024
• Maier also notes that when making a purchase of jeans, fit should take precedence before colors or washes since the right fit will help you to look your personal best.
  — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Guilford Park set a new program-high for team points as every player either tied or set a personal best for points with Joey Dadurka leading the way with 11.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• On paper, the praise from his coach was well deserved: Vigo Catala’s blazing time of 34.73 seconds not only set a personal best, but also eclipsed the meet record.
  — Matty Wasserman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Sadie Engelhardt of Ventura ran a personal best but finished third in her sweepstakes race.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Throwing her personal best 15 feet, 11 inches, Markayla earned a silver medal.
  — Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Emma Reaves is coming off a regional title in the shot put where the University of New Hampshire commit threw a personal best 41 feet, 5 inches.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 19 May 2024
• But while this season’s championship defense bid came up short at 284 points, sophomore Marin Clem said her team was just focused on setting personal best times on Saturday.
  — Carter Yates, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2023
• All tailwind team members are invited to play to their strengths, turning their personal best to our collective advantage.
  — Brian Mavis, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• If your goal is to run a personal best, Peralta-Mitchell suggests staying off your feet as much as possible, avoiding strenuous movement, and sticking close to your home or your hotel.
  — Taylor Dutch, SELF, 24 July 2023
• With Tortured Poets, Swift surpassed her own personal best first-week sales numbers with 2.61 million equivalent album units.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 21 May 2024
• There is often no objective beyond beating a personal best.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, New York Times, 17 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024