How to Use award in a Sentence

award

1 of 2 verb
  • The judges will award a prize to the best speaker.
  • The winner was awarded a gold medal.
  • A prize will be awarded to the student who sells the most tickets.
  • The company is awarding the contract to the lowest bidder.
  • The jury awarded damages to the defendant.
  • He was awarded a patent for his invention.
  • In fact, Stanford has won the Directors’ Cup 26 times in the 29 seasons the cup has been awarded.
    oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2009.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • He was awarded Rookie of the Year after his first season, the youngest player to ever receive the award.
    USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Her writing has been top rated and awarded, as well as placed on Coverfly’s The Red List.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • Judge's catch may have prevented a run from scoring, but Muncy was awarded second base because Judge left the field of play to snag the ball.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
  • That eliminates the one-and-one scenario and sets new foul limits each quarter for awarding the bonus free throw.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
  • For the fiscal year 2022, in the first round of scholarships awarded, nine vouchers went to kids doing home schooling.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • They’re also awarded Honors, which is the resource used to increase the size of squads or add more military squads.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of all time, will receive the Fashion Icon award, the first to be awarded to an athlete.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The largest was $1.6 billion, awarded to a winner in Florida in August.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Maas was awarded nearly $1.8 million from the company that owns KUSI.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • She was awarded $5 million in damages in that case, which Trump is appealing.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 28 June 2023
  • On the episode, Evans surprised Currie by welcoming a Guinness representative to the set to award him the record for the world’s hottest pepper.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • MetroHealth was awarded an A for equity and value, and B for outcomes.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • That’s the sort of premium awarded to shooting stars at the beginning of their biggest growth phases.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • Oppenheimer was awarded a doctorate in physics in May of 1927.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 July 2023
  • The event’s winner receives a trophy; no money is awarded to the competitors.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The exes will remain neighbors as one of Kardashian's Hidden Hills homes is next door to an estate that West was awarded in the split.
    Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Musk was set to be honored for his entrepreneurship, while Murdoch was to be awarded for his career as a media mogul.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That decision was overturned on appeal in 2022, awarding the artist the trademark.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Quincy native had been married for just six months, and was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Guild voters have shown a willingness to award their top trophy to female directors of late.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 10 Feb. 2024
  • In addition to awarding two foul shorts for all common fouls, teams will reach the bonus when their opponent commits five fouls in a quarter.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 2 June 2023
  • Despite years of efforts, the families were only able to collect from Simpson a fraction of the damages the jury awarded.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
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award

2 of 2 noun
  • Will the film win any awards at the festival?
  • She has won numerous awards for her books.
  • The album shipped over two million copies and won the Soundtrack of the Year award at the 1995 Source Awards.
    Ade Adeniji, SPIN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The award ceremony will take place on the evening of March 23.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The award presentation was planned for the team's Pride Night on June 16.
    Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 17 May 2023
  • The young star of the film, Seydou Sarr, won the award for best emerging actor or actress.
    Reuters, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In the world of Hollywood award shows, this year got off to a turbulent start.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Maybe this is a reminder that all awards shows should drop the genres and just go with best acting.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Ali Wong was booked, busy, and winning awards this past weekend.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • He was joined on the awards podium by freshman CJ Sayavongsa, who scored 52.3 points to finish fifth.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2023
  • Lopez was unable to attend, and her son Rio Yanez accepted the award.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The singer also became the most award artist in Grammys history this year, with 32 wins to her name.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 1 June 2023
  • Mitchell won the award based on her work in her hometown of Cincinnati and in Indianapolis.
    Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 5 June 2023
  • Mann & Weil received a trustees award from the Recording Academy in 2015.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 June 2023
  • With two gigantic blockbusters in the mix, will this year’s awards inch back over the twenty-million mark for the first time since 2020?
    The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The award-winning Florida journalist appears to be the last reporter to speak to the deputy.
    USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The show, nominated for 12 Tony awards, cost around $16 million to put on.
    Brittany Natale, Redbook, 10 May 2023
  • In the midst of earning awards left and right, Jelly Roll is still finding time to focus on his health journey.
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps this is what led the film to win the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival last year.
    Cate Blanchett, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The trailer highlights the group as they were awarded trophies at awards shows and headlined massive shows across the world.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • However, Will and Grace star Megan Mullally took home the award.
    Brittany Natale, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • Touching, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, this Finnish gem might be the little awards contender that could.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Already the four-time Pac-12 freshman of the week — winning the award all four weeks of the young season — Watkins added the conference’s top player honor last week.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Actors Theatre of Louisville presents the show by the award-winning ensemble Universe.
    The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The couple was seen leaving the awards ceremony in a black car and they were spotted in a yellow cab later.
    Max Foster, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • The two actors — who have both portrayed the Joker within the past five years — met briefly at Sunday’s award show in Los Angeles.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Five finalists are vying for the Student Recognition Award, and the winner will be announced at the awards gala.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This award-winning brush was developed 100 years ago and is made from the finest premium-grade boar bristles.
    Natalie Alcala, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The company said the AMCC did not have the authority to void the earlier license awards.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The awards ceremony came just a few days after Mother's Day on May 14, making the nods to her mother and mother-in-law all the more thoughtful.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023

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