How to Use cricket in a Sentence

cricket

noun
  • In 1900 in Paris, men’s cricket was on the program, but two of the four teams scheduled to play did not turn up.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The music fades and where there were the nocturnal crickets at the start, now there are ocean waves.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • As birds slowed their songs, crickets filled the false twilight with their chirping.
    Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
  • When the lights turned off, a chorus of cricket chirping erupted.
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Dallas-area resident who got hooked on cricket through TV about a year ago brought his son to see a match.
    Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • The smell of the clean air and marshmallows toasting on the campfire, the sound of crickets chirping, the feeling of the grass with fresh morning dew drops.
    Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Geale is hopeful cricket will be added as an Olympic sport for 2028, when the Games are in Los Angeles.
    Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • If there’s any kind of cricket that will lure Americans, T20 is likely to be it.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 13 July 2023
  • The steady hum of crickets was our soundtrack until singing bowls replaced them.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The crickets eat their way through crops in their path, causing losses for farmers.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • To bearded dragons, crickets and roaches are a treat, like ice cream, Dr. Paz said.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
  • The late Donald Bradman was the best batsman to ever play cricket.
    Samuel Gregg, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The next edition of the Summer Games, in Los Angeles in 2028, will mark the debut of cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • India's home record in Test cricket reads like this: 36 wins and just two losses from 44 matches.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • In recent decades, cricket has led the charge on fair pay for female athletes in Australia.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Some tree cricket species in our area, like the snowy tree cricket and Riley’s tree cricket, make pleasant, pulsed songs.
    oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • One day, Spencer was alone inside a locker room changing his clothes to play cricket when a male teacher walked in.
    Cynthia McFadden, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, the cricket icon turned politician has faced a litany of legal issues — and has dozens of pending cases against him.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Sometimes the composers even threw in a frog ribbit or cricket chirp in this golden age of nature mashups.
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • There were a bunch of cricket playing, Pimm's drinking people.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In many cases, their names—pig frogs, cricket frogs—indicate what kind of noise to expect.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the flowers are wilting, and a cricket and butterfly sit among the petals collected on a ledge below.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Mouthwear in crickets was compared with that of tyrannosaurids.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Sahara group was also a long time sponsor of India’s national cricket team, but lost the rights to the Star India group in 2013.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There were no matches or flames, but there were lanterns, chirping crickets, fir trees swirled with haze and, at one point, a zombie attack.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • Choose from rain sounds to a cat purring, crickets chirping, a clothes dryer, pink noise, and everything in between, or add your own.
    Courtenay Rudzinski, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Is a cricket sweater essential to every man's wardrobe?
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze.
    Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • That saved us from paying someone to come out each month to spray for flies, ants, spiders, mosquitoes and crickets.
    Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Not just of three of them playing, but also of the spaces between: the sounds of the barn, its birds and its crickets, the length of the guitar cable, a sense of distance, but never too much.
    Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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