How to Use the bench in a Sentence

the bench

noun

• The judge left the firm to take the bench in August 1994.
  — Erik Larson Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 31 Jan. 2024
• And there’s this: UConn brings a 7-foot-2 guy off the bench.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• How to Do It: Lie down on the bench with your feet flat on the ground.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• There’s room for as many as three to four kids to sit on the bench.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Parents, 31 July 2023
• Jason Heyward came off the bench to triple in the eighth and homer in the ninth.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 29 May 2024
• As the Bengals ran out the clock with the backups in the game, the starters sat on the bench with stone faces.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
• Stand with your feet at shoulder width apart in front of the bench.
  — Men's Health, 18 Apr. 2023
• Malik Monk had 26 points and eight assists off the bench for the Kings.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Thompson has scored at least 20 points in six of the 13 games since moving to the bench.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Messi looks on from the bench during the game in Hong Kong on Feb. 4.
  — Peter Guo, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Guard Collin Sexton led the team in scoring with 24 points off the bench.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
• Hawkins picked up his third and fourth fouls within one minute and took a seat on the bench with 8:40 left in the game.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• Her squad outscored Team France by a team-high eight points in her 22 minutes off the bench.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
• She was helped off the court but returned to the bench in the second half with an ice pack on her knee.
  — Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• Davion Mitchell is playing a big role off the bench with Huerter and Monk out.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 16 Apr. 2024
• When the defense is on the field, Buchanan is rarely just sitting on the bench waiting to go back in.
  — Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2024
• At the end of the hearing in July, Judge Linda Colfax spoke from the bench.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Beasley had 21 points off the bench on seven-for-14 shooting.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Open up your arms and lower them down to the bench, taking 3 to 4 seconds.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• Lafayette's Brooks Barnhizer comes off the bench for NU.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2023
• Up 25 mid-way through the fourth quarter, coach Steve Kerr pulled the regulars and cleared the bench for a rare break.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• And Friday, for the second time in the last three games, Martinez was in center field and Taveras on the bench.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
• He was kept on the bench when the Mets went to other pinch hitters in a Game 7 loss at Oakland.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 19 June 2024
• Reese Waters, now coming off the bench, seems lost some nights.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
• By then, the game was out of reach at 61-37, and head coach Dawn Staley kept Cardoso on the bench for the fourth quarter.
  — Jill Martin, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• The Lakers were outscored by 18 at the three-point line, beaten on the glass and badly lost the bench points battle.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The four members of the bench were all in positive numbers in their shifts.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Payton came off the bench to hound Malik Monk and block four shots in 16 minutes.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
• Deters called it his most significant opinion in his 18 months on the bench.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2024
• Taurasi scored two points in the team’s previous three games combined, but the six-time Olympian was a much bigger spark for the Americans off the bench logging four assists and three points on Wednesday.
  — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024