How to Use flag football in a Sentence

flag football

noun
  • Some schools will play girls flag football in the spring as a club sport.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • One issue would be what part of the school year to hold flag football.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • No, not that big game – the big flag football game also known as the Pro Bowl!
    Andrew Torgan, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Girls flag football club teams have been playing in the spring.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The Dimond flag football team blew the doors off of Bartlett last Tuesday in a 40-0 shutout.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Of the five, only squash and flag football have never been a part of the Olympics before.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This year, 44 San Diego-area teams will field girls flag football teams.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Long Beach Poly will have the best girls’ flag football team in the Southern Section.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The fields are home to a new summer camp: Blue Devil flag football.
    Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s a report on the girls’ flag football league sponsored by the Rams and Chargers.
    Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Eight kids only a few years old lined up for each flag football team.
    Nick Kelly, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Her older brothers, twins in the fifth grade, played flag football for their school last fall.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • This will also be the first season flag football will be played as a sanctioned sport by the AIA.
    Joshua Edler Davis, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Get out the ol' pigskin and divide the crew up into teams for an old-fashioned game of touch or flag football.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Morin was among about three dozen girls who recently tried out for the school’s flag football team.
    Amy Taxin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • There is lobbying going on to add flag football to the roster of Olympic Sports in 2028.
    Karen Weaver, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Last year, my son wanted to do flag football on Friday nights.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
  • For many of the players, the tournament was a dream come true — flag football was not approved as a sport by the MIAA.
    Julia Yohe, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • More top sports stories: Can flag football be part of the Chicago sports landscape?
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Which Bengals stars would our readers draft to their flag football team?
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Adams will also be at the Pro Bowl Games, which features skills challenges and flag football game this year.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
  • She was named the San Diego Section’s flag football defensive player of the year last fall.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Then the two conferences will play each other in two flag football games, each worth six points.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In what looked like a game of flag football, safety Andre Chachere grabbed at Dobbs T-shirt in the backfield to try to stop him and ripped a long string of it.
    cleveland, 21 Aug. 2022
  • That would clear the Friday spot before the varsity game for girls flag football games.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • Some schools started organized flag football for the first time this year.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some wondered if having girls flag football in the spring would be better to showcase it.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Honor Bowl adds girls The Honor Bowl, one of the top high school football events in the nation, is adding a pair of girls flag football games to its five-game event.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But squash and flag football would be making their debuts at the Los Angeles games.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Birmingham football coach Jim Rose has agreed to be the first girls' flag football coach for the Patriots.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022

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