How to Use tournament in a Sentence

tournament

noun

• She's an excellent tennis player who has won many tournaments.
• The win advances the Sounders to the round of 32 in the take-all-comers tournament.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
• The Cadets last reached the high school state tournament in 2021.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
• What’s even worse, Mohr adds, is that Smith didn’t have to break the rules to have a shot at winning the tournament.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Aug. 2023
• With the tournament taking place on the other side of the earth, game times will be on the later side.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
• Through their first five games in the tournament, the Aztecs shot an average of 42.48%.
  — Kristie Rieken, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• And just like that, the 2023 US Open tennis tournament is coming to a close.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• Morning frost in the Valley of the Sun delayed the start of the tournament for an hour and 45 minutes.
  — Adam Schupak, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
• Among the patrons were a group of deaf people who had come to the bar for a cornhole tournament.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The last five minutes of this might be the best of the tournament - and that includes the end of Gonzaga's thriller against the Bruins.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• People might say, San Diego State might win all these games, but that style doesn’t win in the tournament.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• There also were a couple of plays an inch or two from being talked about for the rest of the tournament.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• The next race of the tournament is slated to take place Down Under on Sunday, April 2.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
• At the end of the regular season, the best eight teams will square off in a three-round playoff tournament.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• Its team had never won a game at the tournament before.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Starting Tuesday night against the Atlanta Hawks. – In the play-in tournament.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2023
• The four would have been displayed on the court, each on its own pedestal that showed the relevant tournament logo.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• On Saturday, their hard work will pay off when the team takes the ice for the first time at a tournament in Delaware.
  — Michelle Miller, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Bal noted the mishaps in the Copa tournament could provide a road map to making the 2026 World Cup a success.
  — Ece Yildirim, CNBC, 17 July 2024
• Players in the first-ever state fair tournament will compete for a $2,000 prize.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2023
• What to know When is the Olympic volleyball tournament?
  — Matt Bonesteel, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• An Olympic Gold was the last notch the Serbian player needed to add to his roster of wins at each of the major tournaments.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2024
• And while the weekend did not end with a win for the Woods trio, at the 14th hole of the final round of the tournament, Tiger and Sam fist-bumped each other to mark a weekend well spent!
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• In June 2017, one of his blimps crashed and burned on live television at the men’s U.S. Open golf tournament, one of the world’s premier sporting events.
  — Richard Lardner, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
• The young Swiss would put an end to Sampras’s 31-match winning streak, though he was beaten in the following round of the tournament.
  — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 20 June 2024
• Paired with his first-day round of 65, Docherty is at 13-under halfway through the tournament.
  — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2024
• For most of the tournament, there's two sessions each day—a day session (which begins at 11 a.m.) and a night session (which starts at 7 p.m.).
  — Town & Country, 27 Aug. 2023
• Kerr, who has been slowed by a left leg injury sustained in training, was making her first start of the tournament.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• Prior to the match, Riddle took to her TikTok account to reveal her final look for the tournament.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 9 Sep. 2024
• The uptick in celebrity appearances at the US Open has coincided with a surge of public interest in the tournament, and this year’s crowds are already positioned to break the 2023 all-time attendance records.
  — Grace McCarty, SELF, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024