How to Use athletic in a Sentence

athletic

adjective

• She's tall and has an athletic build.
• They each received an athletic scholarship to the school.
• His athletic career spanned three decades.
• Students can get discount tickets for all athletic events.
• She has great athletic ability.
• For an athletic fit, Smartwool makes some of the best socks out there.
  — Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• For his size, athletic, ball skills, knows how to use his hands.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
• While Grant plays the fastest man alive on The Flash, his wife is quite athletic in real life.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
• There's that unique tension in its sinews, and a sense of athletic poise and balance.
  — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
• Come in, work out with coaches, get an ice bath, get in the weight room, get with the athletic training staff, all that.
  — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
• This has been in place since 2018 and school and athletic personnel are trained for this each year.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• This Longhorns team is also athletic enough to get out on the wings and thwart the Jayhawks’ perimeter threat.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
• Of course, the Trojans don’t have an athletic director in the building to hear them.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The athletic 21-year old has the tools to be a useful player in the open floor and on defense, but those skills haven’t surfaced yet.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• But, in the course of the past year and a half, the Mavericks have gathered a group of young, athletic players, through the draft, free agency, and trades.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
• The Big 12 has been the right move for the athletic budget as well as football and several other sports.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• The new athletic fields for Harshman will cost around $2.8 million.
  — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• Long and Conner are both athletic in the Gesicki mold rather than physical in the Smythe mold, such as Carter.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
• Here’s a timeline of the arrests (and near-arrests) that have shadowed the 34-year-old’s athletic career.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• Her early efforts to fit in with the other kids, to match their athletic exploits, didn’t go well.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Trump has brought the name, image and likeness (NIL) scheme from the college athletic arenas to the campaign trail.
  — Nolan Finley, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Since 2017, when he was drafted, Tatum has been paired with Brown, an athletic marvel.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• Crawfordsville athletic director Bryce Barton said the throwback game was idea that had been in the works for a while.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Feb. 2023
• What to Consider The athletic fit may not be the most comfortable option for all users.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• And the school created an athletic department, with plans to field six teams.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• His father, a financier, passed on to him a love of soccer, and the athletic uniforms of the ’80s and ’90s had an impact on Aka’s personal style.
  — Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Russell, who is also the athletic director at the school and has over 400 wins, could not be reached for comment.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 14 Feb. 2023
• As for the new collection, which spans cozy leggings to shiny athletic bras to a form-fitting bodysuit, Biles is on board.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• How much do athletic directors make in the Houston area?
  — Terri Peters, Chron, 16 Dec. 2023
• Fiennes and Tucci, in particular, spin dialogue with athletic deftness, but they and the rest of the cast are burdened with embodying stock characters who exist only through a salient trait or two.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024