How to Use basketball in a Sentence

basketball

noun

• Home movies show a tiny Steph dribbling a huge basketball.
  — Bill Edelstein, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• But people were willing to pay five to eight bucks for a good basketball session.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024
• There’s also a vegetable garden, large open lawn space, and a basketball hoop.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2024
• His home life is a mess, too: His mom is sleeping with his cousin’s husband, which comes to light when the cousin attacks his mom in the stands at a basketball game.
  — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 17 Sep. 2024
• One is basketball, another is sneaker culture, and there will be more exclusives with Nike and other brands.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
• Ontario Christian could be the team to challenge Etiwanda for girls’ basketball supremacy.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
• When our citizens know that our police are there to protect and serve...to play basketball...to get a drink from the lemonade stand...to walk in to a local business just to make sure everything is okay...
  — Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2023
• Some Ear Hustle interviews are conducted in the prison yard, with ambient sounds of men talking or playing basketball.
  — Jean Dykstra, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2023
• By all accounts, USF women’s basketball should be on an upward trajectory.
  — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
• Coaches in every sport would come and go, but in girls’ basketball, Mount Miguel and Robbie Sandoval were synonymous.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• The move was simply made because being geographically closer helps them from a basketball perspective.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2023
• The new pop-a-shot basketball game would have to wait for after a win.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
• On the basketball floor, Bridges has been one of the Hornets’ top players.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
• There's a swimming pool and creek for the kids to splash in, plus a horseshoe pit and basketball courts.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Not just on the basketball court, but in pop culture too.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• It’s been a long, up-and-down basketball season for St. John Bosco.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• The empty swimming pool and weedy basketball courts gave the place a kind of haunted charm.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• The Marquette men's basketball team could use a pick-me-up after a stretch that has them at 2-3 in Big East play.
  — Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• The pain was profound in the Gophers men’s basketball team’s loss at Iowa on Sunday.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2024
• With that, the conversation turned back to basketball as the Kings embark on a 13-day road trip that could set the course for the rest of the season.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• Gwynn was a third-rounder who played more basketball than baseball at San Diego State.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
• Then reports emerged of messy shows in the acoustic hell of basketball arenas.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2023
• Never seen that before in a basketball court in an NBA game.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
• To top it off, Kismet sports a garage full of water toys and a basketball and pickleball court.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• Last weekend, Steph Curry helped the U.S. men’s basketball team take home a gold medal.
  — Kristen Tauer, WWD, 16 Aug. 2024
• Renee told Dateline the 11-year-old had spent the night at a friend’s house and was supposed to meet her mother to go to a basketball game.
  — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 27 June 2024
• That’s how many games the US women’s national basketball team has won in a row.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• The freshman guard was cleared by doctors to return to basketball at the end of November.
  — Rishikesh Rajagopalan, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Parents relaxed in the shade as children played on the basketball court and football field.
  — Allison Robbert, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• The beach also has a skate park, basketball courts, and the iconic Muscle Beach outdoor gym.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024