How to Use team sport in a Sentence

team sport

noun
  • Because the work of protecting the public’s health is a team sport.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 July 2023
  • Try playing a team sport or joining a club, which can have the same effect.
    Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This is Israels’ first Olympic team sport to qualify for the Olympics since 1976.
    Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Improv is a team sport Improv is a lot less about performing than meets the eye.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
  • At 27-2 and on the cusp of winning Fairfield's first state championship in any team sport, it's been one heck of a farewell tour for the Garbers.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Hockey is the only team sport that still allows fighting.
    Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • It was invented in California in the 1970s and is a team sport for dogs, a cross between and a relay and a hurdle race.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Volleyball has surpassed basketball as the No. 1 girls high school team sport in the United States.
    Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There is arguably no more complex team sport in North America than football — where the success of plays can hinge on the action of any one of 22 players on the field.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Change, from our company’s perspective, is a team sport.
    Tim York, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • American kids could once again play their country’s oldest team sport!
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Americans might be surprised to learn that cricket – not baseball, nor football – holds the title of the nation’s first modern team sport.
    M. Fahad Humayun, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
  • More than any other team sport, soccer gives an underdog a chance against a favorite given the size of the playing surface and the number of contestants.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • In its second trip to state in program history, Guyer came up short again and couldn’t bring home the first softball title and first team sport title since 2013 to its campus.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
  • The annual tradition each and every Thanksgiving Day is watching the great team sport the Lions and Cowboys play.
    Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 27 July 2023
  • Football has often been referred to as the ultimate team sport, and McDaniel seems to want the focus to remain on the team and not individuals.
    Chantz Martin, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In fairness to on-ice officials, NHL hockey is the world’s fastest team sport, and even four guys — two of them linesmen — can easily miss things like Dillon’s cross checks, which came after the play.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
  • On their road to a future that keeps them all connected to their favorite team sport, their biggest hurdles were those erected by LeBron’s growing fame.
    Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • It's become a common trope, though, that cybersecurity is a team sport.
    Robert Wood, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • For example, although the state team sport is lacrosse, jousting is actually Maryland’s state sport.
    Kara Thompson, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Baseball is a team sport — of individuals mostly out for themselves.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • But what’s also become apparent over the years is that the integration of new products and technologies into dental practices is also a team sport.
    Michael Smith, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Watch baseball, football, or any team sport: Players support each other and strengthen their bonds by interacting with each other in high fives, hands clasping or shaking, fists bumping, pats on the head or back—and even hugs.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024

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