How to Use Olympic in a Sentence

Olympic

adjective
  • But who should take home the gold in this Olympic year?
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2024-08-16
  • Squash and flag football will be part of the Olympic sports list in four years’ time.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 2024-08-04
  • Tori Bowie, an Olympic track star, died last month at age 32.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2023-06-14
  • For one thing, Olympic years give nations license to fly their freak flags, just a bit.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2024-12-25
  • They were once worn by athletes to win Olympic track races in the 1970s.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 2025-07-24
  • Good luck to Ryan at both the Olympic trials and his sophomore swim season.
    — Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 2023-07-17
  • On a train ride home, a boy recognized the Olympic athlete and asked for a photo.
    — The Arizona Republic, 2024-01-06
  • Paris has been a long time coming for Gauff who’s had her sights set on the Olympic stage for the past three years.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 2024-03-25
  • The next city in line gets to send its people to study every part of the Olympic operation.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 2024-07-24
  • And yes, those are Olympic gold and silver medals in the hallways of Carmel High School.
    — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-08-16
  • My therapist helped me the entire three months leading up to the Olympic trials and the Olympics.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 2024-12-30
  • The one Olympic improvement locals welcome is a new bridge that will connect to the beach in front of Chopes.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 2023-12-10
  • Biathlon is the only Winter Olympic sport in which the United States has not won a medal.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2023-09-15
  • The former track star is the son of Festus and Faith, two Olympic track stars from Nigeria.
    — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 2023-09-11
  • Comcast’s previous deal for the Olympic rights was signed more than a decade ago, and was set to run through 2032.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 2025-03-13
  • Dalhausser, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, is out to prove that age is just a number in volleyball.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The rise of McDonald’s and the rise of Coca-Cola have been very much attached to the Olympic movement.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Besides Athens, Lawrence’s other two Olympic medals came from the Sydney Games in 2000.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The conference’s media partnerships will be announced at a later date, which Gould said would include more coverage of women’s basketball as well as its Olympic sports.
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The project represents a major financial undertaking, with Olympic archive rights expected to account for a substantial portion of the budget.
    — Essie Assibu, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The 2023 Pan American Games hosts propose to welcome the world to a place where Olympic events could unfold in the shadow of the Andes.
    — Blythe Lawrence, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This massive outdoor water complex has a giant splash pad with multiple whimsical shooting water features and an Olympic-sized pool with diving boards and a fantastic twisty blue slide, plus a smaller sized pool for tubing and kick-boarding.
    — Jessica Yadegaran, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Fanta is also expected to be in the mix as a reporter on NBC’s NBA coverage and could be part of the network’s Olympic coverage.
    — Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Theo raises the kids and turns their daughter, Hattie (Hala Finley), and son, Roy (Wells Rappaport), into Olympic-level athletes.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Fox has won a total of six Olympic medals — three golds, one silver and two bronze — including two golds from the 2024 Olympics in Paris, according to her athlete page on the official Olympics website.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Glaciers across High Mountain Asia are disappearing at an alarming rate, with more than 22 gigatons of ice vanishing each year, which is roughly equal to the volume of nine million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The movie stars Will Arnett as the comedian divorcé, Alex, and Laura Dern as his soon-to-be ex-wife, a former Olympic-level volleyball player named Tess.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Hamm, who won two Olympic gold medals and two FIFA Women's World Cup championships, played her college soccer with North Carolina from 1989 to 1993.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • According to Understanding Animal Research, dogs have roughly 220 million scent receptors, compared to only about 5 million in humans, and can detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion, or the equivalent to a single drop of liquid in 20 Olympic-size swimming pools.
    — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Jump series have yielded collabs with such disparate entities as Major League Baseball and Dolce & Gabbana—and have inspired tributes from the likes of the Olympic sprinting champion Noah Lyles and the Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
    — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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