How to Use champion in a Sentence

champion

1 of 2 noun

• He was a champion for the working classes.
• Our team will play the defending champions next week.
• The win may have been redemption for the champion, who lost to Medvedev in the 2021 U.S. Open final.
  — Claire Cardona, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The 2023 Great British Baking Show has crowned a new champion!
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
• In his time at Liverpool, the club was crowned champion of England — for the first time in 30 years — Europe and the world.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Among amendments, the all-time champion is the 14th, which was ratified in the years after the Civil War.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• April 8 will also be the day a new NCAA men's basketball champion is crowned.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
• However, the club fell 2-1 to the eventual champions and her new club Gotham FC.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• This could be a battle of the running backs as state champion wrestler Eugene Harney has over 209 yards in two games.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
• But the Trojans and Bruins started it — will one of them finish it as champions?
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• This should have been a moment to relish, the world champions together again.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Ryan is also a longtime champion of New York City’s tech scene.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
• The Notre Dame commit was the leader and enforcer on defense for the Trinity League champion.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Pulling that off in proximity to power is one of the best ways to secure a valuable champion.
  — Anne Marie Chaker, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• The last girls state champion was Brawley’s Savannah Gomez in 2022.
  — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
• All of this is at stake in Trump’s ultimate lie: his claim to be a champion of democracy rather than the architect of its demise.
  — Serena Mayeri, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• Tim Amacher, once a champion, was now boxed into a corner.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Granite Hills, the defending State Division 2-A champion, has won 17 games in a row.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Fun is not something that emanates from the two-time Wimbledon champion's game face or any other part of his metal frame.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• There was no question: G2 Gozen was the undisputed Game Changers world champion.
  — Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2023
• This is both men’s best chance at standing out to their respective bases as champions of their party’s values.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The reigning champions have looked ominous through their opening two games, winning by margins of 39 and 30 and not trailing for a second in either clash.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• The little chef in your life will love learning about the life and legacy of Edna Lewis, one of the most influential American chefs and a champion of Southern food.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• The band invited the paper’s critic, Nick Cohen, who happened to be writing a book on a pinball champion, into the studio to hear the album.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
• Pockets and an elastic waistband up the pants’ functionality while a subtle champion logo at the left hip adds a stylish flair.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2023
• But soon, Gauff was playing better, Sabalenka was off-target more, and the love was being showered only on one of them, the sport’s newest Grand Slam champion.
  — Howard Fendrich, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The women’s bantamweight title fight between champion Amanda Nunes and Irene Aldana headlines the card.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2023
• Jones was placed on the reserve/non-football illness list last week, before the Raiders eventually released the one-time Super Bowl champion on Sept. 29.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• For decades, the Republican Party has been the party of conservatism and a champion for the Constitution.
  — Karyn Amira, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
• Long-hitting sister Reese, also a former state prep champion for Simley, joins the Gophers as a freshman next season.
  — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024

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champion

2 of 2 verb

• She is a lawyer who champions children's rights.
• Our senator championed the idea of lowering taxes.
• The Princess of Wales and the First Lady teamed up in 2021 to champion education.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• Gigi Hadid is championing the naked dress trend at the 2023 Met Gala—but, with a moody twist.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• He was brought there by Joshua Williams, an attorney who’d championed his cause and helped secure the Draft League invite.
  — Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• As a young actress, Lane's mom has been by her side and has championed her throughout her budding career.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• Kennedy’s lawyers, who championed his cause all the way to a Supreme Court victory, were awarded $1.7 million in legal fees paid to them by the school district.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Weinstein movie was championed on a right-wing populist Dutch blog, Geen Stijl.
  — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Mitski’s hit is a huge victory for indie rock and for her die-hard fans who’ve been championing her for more than a decade.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
• The center has a mission to advance the legacy of Havel, who died in 2011 and was known for championing human rights and free expression.
  — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Sanders has championed limits to education in the state.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, some pointed out the irony of Musk championing the removal of account-blocking when Musk himself has blocked many users.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
• Stokey-Daley is 27 to Styles’s 29-years-old; close in age and eye-to-eye on the enjoyment of championing a new cozily-cool, trad-modern stamp on British dressing.
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2024
• Paul is passionate about film and has the energy and entrepreneurial skills to lead and champion the new, fresh voice of EIFF.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
• To some, those defeats were at least in part a rejection of the policy positions Lara and Arroyo have championed on the council.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• Task force members are championing their colleagues’ ability to get things done.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 July 2023
• Championing all three relay events, Wellesley repeated as the Division 2 Track and Field girls’ state champions for the fourth time in five years.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• But these products are far more modest than those championed by its competitors in recent months.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• The tie-up that Jones and his team heavily championed launched one of the most lucrative movie-plus-marketing twofers in showbiz history.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Whitmer, who was the target of a kidnapping plot, and Evers are both Democrats who have championed more progressive causes.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• But in 1993, that was a huge deal for someone who had championed independence and underground values to appear to cave to the major-label Man.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• In a 2020 newsletter, Amazon championed Ervin as a face of its commitment to Black business owners.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• The news has finally shifted from any mention of her public decline as a reason for championing age limits.
  — Anna Chodos, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023
• Some of the priorities championed by social conservatives were a no-go for Democrats.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 15 Dec. 2023
• Kaminsky says CPAs need to champion the profession and be even more intentional in telling their stories.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
• Men like me – older and whiter – must be the first to champion women and diverse ethnicity in our modern world with our votes, at the polls and on boards which pick today’s corporate leaders.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• But where the other firms sold phones and search engines, Musk and Altman championed their work as a public mission for protecting mankind, with a for-profit business attached.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Price has been a public supporter of her campaign and the two are closely tied since she’s championed many of his biggest policy initiatives.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• Just days before the end of the 2024 legislative session, nearly every Senate Democrat voted against a birth control bill championed by a member of their own party across the hall at the Statehouse.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2024
• But Coulter was quick to divert from big business to champion small ones and the proverbial little guys and gals — those struggling to pay for education after high school, or to rent or buy homes, or to start small businesses.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024