How to Use football in a Sentence

football

noun

• He played a lot of football in high school and college.
• The ship is nearly the length of three football fields.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• And that leaves the Pac-12 with one Division I football choice in this part of the world.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
• The Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year for football fans.
  — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• The end of the year is college football’s moment to shine.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
• Branch hung out with the football team, Heird was around the baseball team.
  — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• Steeves-Little signed to play football at the school last week.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• The Ravel, which is the length of a football field, has just 55 bedrooms.
  — James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
• Williams' dad, Chris Williams, used to play football, too.
  — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• But then on the first day of school, seniors gathered on the football field to watch the sunrise.
  — USA Today, 7 June 2023
• This is turf from the high school football field, which is about a quarter-mile away.
  — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
• Works his tail off, loves to practice, loves to play football.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
• The protests once again highlighted the power of the fans in German football.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• His body had recovered, and Smith now had time for the life that football had stolen from him.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• On Friday night, the high school football game is an island of light in a sea of darkness.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• At the events, a current or former football player will come to the school to read a Dr. Seuss book and speak to the students.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 19 Feb. 2025
• Welcome to The Top 25, a weekly rundown of the best of college football.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
• The other side calls for a low-scoring, tight football game.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• Mack Hollins to block a linebacker, which is not good football in that regard.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 27 Dec. 2022
• But at North, the school resource officer was also the head coach of the football team — and still is.
  — Meg Anderson, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
• Soon the system spread to football teams throughout the midwest.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Check out this week’s nominees for the Huntsville area football player of the week and vote in the fan poll below.
  — al, 6 Nov. 2022
• It’s not uncommon for high school football players to play on both sides of the ball.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The series races through the rest of the football season in its last two episodes with no objective at all.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
• But all four of those men spent well over half their football careers in other cities.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
• The big picture: To ring in the New Year, a peach will drop, footballs will be thrown, and, just outside the metro, a building will implode.
  — Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 1 Jan. 2025
• This was a football game, not a call to put out a fire or to investigate a homicide.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
• Court documents state the plaintiff drove to the school and delivered the leis to members of the St. Louis football team.
  — Justin Spears, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
• The state’s big schools held their state championships on Friday, and now the small school football teams are taking the field.
  — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2022
• The Welsh club has already been promoted from being a non-league side to the third tier of the English football pyramid.
  — Robert Olsen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025