How to Use showdown in a Sentence

showdown

noun

• Here are the game details ahead of the Big 12 showdown...
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024
• Jared Goff will make the throws late to set up the showdown in Green Bay.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2023
• The Tigers will have their best pitcher on the mound for the first showdown with Ohtani.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
• The 2024 World Series showdown could be epic and set records — in stores and in the stands.
  — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• The lion’s share were in the ten-plus-minute finale showdown.
  — Simon Thompson, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Vols claimed the remaining five No. 1 votes on the eve of their showdown with the Bulldogs.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• The stakes in their showdown depend on the outcomes of two other races.
  — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Still, the stage for the showdowns has nearly been set, the major players revealed.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• It’s been something of a theme over the first three games of this midseason AL West showdown.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 July 2023
• The board voted in May to retain Mr. Sanchez, but the showdown left wounds in the community.
  — John Leland John Leland, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Both sides have spent the past two decades preparing for their next showdown.
  — Josef Federman, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
• In relation to last year’s figures, the showdown just barely missed the mark by 8%.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
• As Shiv storms out of the apartment with her brothers in tow, both Mattson and the Roys prepare for a showdown.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
• Check out how to claim this offer and preview an NFC showdown.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• The two sides have faced off in a fierce showdown over the control of two seats on Disney’s board and the future of the 100-year-old company.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• The night before the showdown, Williams had gone to the home of Mildred Allen, one of his sisters, to vent his frustrations.
  — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
• And just like that famous showdown, this one also ended in a tie.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 Aug. 2024
• Democrats argue the showdown over the debt limit should not be the new normal way of doing the nation’s business.
  — Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• The show sees ‘faithfuls’ sniff out ‘traitors’ in one location via a series of games and showdowns.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
• The climactic showdown might have been borrowed from any Blumhouse movie over the past 10 years.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
• Previous showdowns have closed the government for as short as one day to as long as more than a month.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Add to that the six sprint races and the total comes to 30 contests in just over nine months, with the final showdown in Abu Dhabi on December 8.
  — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• Given the talent and story involved, this showdown had no choice but to be.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• The last round of fighting in 2006 ended in a stalemate, and both sides have spent the past two decades preparing for their next showdown.
  — Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
• Now, the city is kicking over another hornet’s nest in setting the stage for a legal showdown over the meaning and scope of the 2016 law.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• With all that out of the way then, here’s this week’s edition of the Starting Five, headlined by a top-10 showdown hosted by one of the game’s most storied venues.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• The marquee game that Saturday — and one of the top games in the country all season — is Ohio State’s showdown at Oregon.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• Here are the top moments from the DeSantis v Newsom showdown ...
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Indiana didn’t wait to reward its coach, handing him a new eight-year, $72 million deal ahead of its showdown versus fellow top-five squad Ohio State and its coach Ryan Day ($10 million).
  — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2024
• In some ways, the $2.5 million showdown between Liren, a soft-spoken assassin from China, and Gukesh, an up-and-coming prodigy from India, should be the biggest world championship yet.
  — Leon Watson, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024