How to Use tiebreaker in a Sentence

tiebreaker

noun

• Both shot 398 but the tiebreaker was the sixth player‘s scores.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• The first tiebreaker is head-to-head record: The Twins edge the Tigers there, 7-6.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
• Here's what's left to watch for in the tiebreaker race.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Clippers own the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Lakers.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 6 Apr. 2023
• Who has the tiebreaker if both the Bucks and Celtics finish with the same record?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
• The next tiebreaker is head-to-head, and the Aztecs are 2-1 against the other two.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
• Twins and Tigers tied at 85-77, with the Twins taking the tiebreaker.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
• Swiatek then missed a backhand, and Jabeur pushed things to the tiebreaker and led it 5-4.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2022
• And by virtue of their 3-1 head-to-head record against the Lakers, the Warriors own the tiebreaker.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• Head-to-head is not the first tiebreaker in draft order.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 27 Dec. 2022
• But the Jazz own the tiebreaker on the Nuggets, thanks to winning all four games against them this year.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
• The Orioles were awarded the top pick by virtue of a tiebreaker.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2022
• Late in the tiebreaker, Kyrgios came to the middle of the net, and gave Garin three short chances to put the ball past him.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• If there was a need for a tiebreaker, that moment said it all.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• Division record is the second tiebreaker and the Browns are 2-2, the Ravens 1-3.
  — Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
• The last step in this sort process, the tiebreaker, is sorting by hashcode.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
• After a back-and-forth third set, the pair went to the tiebreaker and Tan was able to hold on and defeat Williams.
  — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
• The tiebreaker at the time was the result of the weigh-in, determining who was stronger pound for pound.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• To win the tiebreaker against Houston, which has won six of the first 10 meetings, the Rangers would have to sweep the Astros next week.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The top two teams in each group — where goal difference is the first tiebreaker — advance to the round of 16.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Grant won the tiebreaker, via the OSAA rankings, and was the league’s top seed in the state tournament.
  — oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2022
• In most tennis matches, when a set moves to a tiebreaker, the outcome comes down to a flip of a coin.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• This could be a tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed; neither team can afford to lose.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• With the victory, New York is off to a franchise-best 23-4 start and holds the head-to-head tiebreaker against the Aces.
  — Wayne Sterling, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
• The Reds tied with the Pirates for the third-worst record in the league, but the Reds are fourth because Pittsburgh had a worse record in 2021 as the tiebreaker.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2022
• For play-in scenarios, Dallas owns the tiebreaker over the Jazz.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
• That would create a four-way tie, but the Gophers would win a tiebreaker.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2021
• This 11-game stretch is make-or-break, and that one game might have cost them the playoff tiebreaker with the Giants.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
• In the event of a tie in points atop the table or elsewhere when all the dust is settled at the end of the season, that will be the tiebreaker.
  — oregonlive, 22 June 2023
• With three games left in the season, the Fever are 1.5 games ahead of the Mercury for the sixth seed, and Indiana also holds the tiebreaker.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024