How to Use round-robin in a Sentence

round-robin

noun

• In the second half of round-robin play, the record drops to 28-47.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• With a 2-0 record in the round-robin play, Gauff moved to the top of the Orange table.
  — Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• The two teams with the best records at the end of the round-robin will face off for the championship, a six-minute, 3-on-3 game.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Wednesday’s matchup will be the first of three for the U.S. as the tournament shifts to a round-robin format.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• For its part, the Premier League have replied with their own legal round-robin.
  — Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 20 Nov. 2024
• The tournament consists of a round-robin where all four teams will face off.
  — Jackson Castellano, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2024
• Day One will be a round-robin tournament, by the end of which eight will remain.
  — Brandon Sneed, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
• The countries are split into four groups with a round-robin format for this group stage.
  — Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• On Friday, Jabeur, the world No. 7 player, must beat Swiatek in the round-robin match to advance to the semifinals.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• Each of these teams have played 20 matches, and will play a match a day round-robin style against the other three teams there to finish out the slate.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The tournament is a round-robin tournament, and each team will play three games.
  — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2025
• Instead of a 16-team bracket, the Southern Section runs two eight-team, round-robin pools.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
• The eight-week Unrivaled season will see the teams play a round-robin schedule, with the top four teams making the playoffs.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• Gunn was swept in all of her battles without ever earning a single point in the round-robin stage.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2024
• That was such a round-robin of us all finishing each other's sentences.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• There are four round-robin groups of five, with two teams from each advancing to the quarterfinals.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• The four teams in those two groups will play one another in a round-robin format, with the top two advancing to the semifinal stage.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 14 June 2024
• Raygun, who was defeated in her three round-robin battles by a score of 54-0, stood out amongst the athletes for not being up to par.
  — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• Teams will play a single round-robin, facing everyone else home or away.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• Club Deportivo Guadalajara is the other club playing in the Central 3 round-robin group stage.
  — The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
• The tournament will feature 50 teams playing in a round-robin format.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• Teams are divided into four pools and will play each other in a round-robin format, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage.
  — Tim Chan, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
• There will be a round-robin first round with each team playing each other before the top two teams play a one-game final on Feb. 20 in Boston to determine the winner.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
• This is an intimate, round-robin style performance that features some of the area’s top songwriters.
  — Jody MacE, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2024
• And thus, with one game remaining in round-robin play, the Americans retain a chance to win Group E but cede the dominance and easier path that would have come with a win.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• There would be groups, played on a round-robin, home-and-away basis, and then knockout play-offs, presumably culminating in some sort of final.
  — Rory Smith, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
• Fortunately for both squads, all is not lost just yet as each team plays the seven other nations once each in the round-robin preliminary pool phase.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
• So one morning last week, before nearly 100 kids arrived to play a round-robin tournament, three fields had to be laid out on a big grass oval with cones, flags and portable goals.
  — Jenny Vrentas Isabella Moore, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• All teams will play a five-week, round-robin schedule against the other teams in their division and to determine seeding for the playoffs, which begin in November.
  — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• Masters tournament, which featured previous champions facing off round-robin style over the course of 10 hour-long episodes with the games being scored in points.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2025