How to Use benchwarmer in a Sentence

benchwarmer

noun

• I played a little, but mostly I was a benchwarmer.
• The forecast is even worse for benchwarmers hoping to make the leap.
  — Dan Hanner & Luke Winn, SI.com, 12 Oct. 2016
• The small-market Royals can ill-afford to have $18 million wrapped up in a benchwarmer, this year or the next two seasons.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2017
• When the game finally ends with a running clock and every Bobcats benchwarmer on the field, the final score is 57-0.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2019
• From Week 1 of last season to Week 1 of this season, Snell has transformed from benchwarmer to bulldozer.
  — Joe Mussatto, ajc, 31 Aug. 2017
• Brooks was a freshman benchwarmer when the Wildcats steamrolled his Wolverines to win the 2018 national championship in this building, and that might as well have been a lifetime ago.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022
• Rating: 5/10 Next up are the trials and tribulations of serial benchwarmer Oumar Niasse.
  — SI.com, 15 June 2019
• The Premier League is chockablock of some of the finest talents in world football...but there are also a whole host of benchwarmers, has-beens, never-weres and outcasts who have long been forgotten amid all the excitement.
  — SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• If a single player tests positive, that player — whether an All-Star or a benchwarmer — would be isolated and quarantined.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
• The league’s action places the spotlight on vaccine holdouts among the players, and could create a quandary for coaches: A second-rank player or benchwarmer who refuses the shot can be cut for chump change, but starters may be a different story.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• Preston started a single basketball game in high school after mostly being a benchwarmer.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2021
• Instead, a kid talented enough to earn a scholarship to Colorado, decided to put that immense talent on hold, someone used to playing starter’s minutes willingly choosing a benchwarmer’s fate.
  — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 4 Mar. 2017
• This may be germane to the vast majority of participants in intercollegiate sports, especially participants in small-money athletics and benchwarmers in the big-money sports.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024