How to Use half-court in a Sentence

half-court

noun

• Walker Park has one full-sized court with two goals and two half-courts with a goal each.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2023
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Games are played in a half-court setting and have unique rules, such as a four-point shot and the winner being the first to 50 points.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
• Martinez drained a half-court shot at the buzzer, giving the Sailors a 45-44 victory.
  — Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
• The top two teams after those events will then shoot half-court shots to decide a winner.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 18 Feb. 2023
• Even Payton Pritchard rained down a half-court buzzer-beater again, as if that was his job.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
• Houston’s last chance, fittingly, was a half-court heave from Brooks that would’ve stolen the game.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The key for the Terrapins is to slow the game down so both attacks have to operate in a half-court setting.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• Outdoors is a pool, half-court basketball court, pool house and three-car garage.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
• After Palmer sank the first of two free throws, putting her over 1,000 career points, the Vikings jumped around together at half-court.
  — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• With under a minute to go, Guiney took the ball inside her own 3-point arc, dribbled across half-court, went behind the back and slalomed her way to the basket for a layup.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
• Michigan's lead was 50-49 when McDaniel corralled a loose ball and threw a half-court alley-oop to Tray Jackson.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• Loch Raven used a series of traps and half-court defenses to confound the Perry Hall offense.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
• As part of a halftime promotion, fans who successfully make a half-court shot win a grand prize of free Chick-fil-A for a year.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
• Working them in transition instead of coming down and trying to play half-court offense all the time.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
• The All-Star Game has become a farce of a basketball game: guys chucking up shots from half-court and trying stupid dunks, all while not even a sniff of defense can be found.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
• The players and their coaches, including Mr. Mascher, stood at half-court, hugged one another and cried.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Neither could Austin Reaves, who couldn’t get any aspect of his offensive game going, missing nine of 11 shots (while banking in a half-court heave just after the buzzer in the third).
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• Arizona slips two places to No. 9 after being victimized by Arizona State’s half-court heave.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
• There’s also a 12-person hot tub, a half-court basketball court, and a bicycle workshop and storage room.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• That difference was apparent from the opening tip, as the Crusaders struggled to get the ball over half-court against Maryland’s pressing defense.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2023
• Instead, bigs like Matthew Marsh are mostly relegated to being used as screeners in half-court sets.
  — Bill Shaikin, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• When Washington was forced into half-court sets, 7-foot-3-inch center Kristaps Porzingis punished the Celtics with an array of off-balance, odd-angled jumpers.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• Cedar Hill had a 15-4 edge in steals, combining half-court traps with quick hands and more physical play for the significant defensive edge.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• This was half-court, six-on-six basketball, a game where dribbling was limited and only forwards were permitted to score.
  — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
• After using its zone defense for just four half-court defensive possessions in Friday’s first half, the Heat went to zone for 24 possessions in the second half.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2024
• Outdoors, a resort pool with cabanas and lap lanes, kiddie pool, playground, event lawn and pickleball and half-court basketball courts provide fun for all.
  — Dallas Builders Association, Dallas News, 4 July 2023
• But Clemson repeatedly converted layups out of its half-court sets and inbound plays precisely when Arizona should have been fully locked in.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Amazingly, Texas won despite shooting just 1-of-13 on 3-pointers and having zero fast-break points as Penn State turn pretty much all possessions into a half-court game.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024