How to Use track-and-field in a Sentence

track-and-field

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• The start of track-and-field events mark the unofficial halfway point of the Games.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 July 2024
• The stadium hosted rugby and track-and-field events through the Games.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
• The middle schooler competes on girls' cross-country and track-and-field teams.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Apr. 2023
• He’s clinched his second meet title of the outdoor track-and-field season.
  — Time, 6 June 2023
• His interest in discus led him to become the track-and-field coach at Camelback High School.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• The entire track-and-field team, boys and girls, consists of about 30 participants, half of whom are in middle school.
  — Josh Moore, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2023
• Then, a 67-year-old man took to the field and stood at the top of the throwing circle, stopping the elementary school track-and-field event in British Columbia, Starr said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Allyson Felix, a track-and-field star with 11 Olympic medals to her name, brought the first-ever Olympic nursery to the athletes village, in partnership with Pampers.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
• President Barack Obama often used a track-and-field metaphor to talk about the presidency.
  — Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• The annual track-and-field season has just begun, and there is a slew of events between now—April—and the Games’ opening ceremony on the Seine in July.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• Tartan track is sort of the track-and-field version of Astroturf , originally designed for horse tracks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2024
• Initiatives like the 776 Invitational, and the track-and-field league former Olympic champion Michael Johnson plans to launch next year, could shake up the sport.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• Rather, Jackson said that her daughter is a gifted track-and-field athlete hoping to follow in her father's footsteps.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• The 27-year-old is France’s reigning heptathlon champion and competes for the track-and-field team at Azusa Pacific University.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Girls in Campbell’s softball and track-and-field programs allegedly changed in the bleachers by a practice field in open view, holding up jackets to cover each other.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• The act then gave way to a track-and-field tribute that included a reimagining of the Course des Cafés and a flurry of models in clothes that nodded to the period entre deux guerres in various ways.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 June 2024
• Even the champion will admit being a full-time athlete wasn’t a given, despite coming from a family of Olympic track-and-field competitors.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 July 2024
• While Dunne competes in gymnastics, a star Olympic sport with a loyal following on the college level, Hurley participates in a track-and-field discipline that barely causes an Olympic ripple.
  — Time, 6 June 2023
• Paralympic track-and-field star and Lululemon ambassador Hunter Woodhall shares what his global travels are like wearing two prosthetic legs.
  — Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
• Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 12-year-old transgender girl who currently competes on her school's cross-country and track-and-field teams sued, alleging the prohibition violates the Constitution.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
• On the flip side, some transgender individuals have successfully overturned such decisions, including a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia who competed in school cross-country and track-and-field competitions.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024