How to Use basketball in a Sentence

basketball

noun
  • Why is the box score the box score in basketball?
    — Elise Devlin, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • From the basketball court to the court of law.
    — Caren Bohan, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And that is our best guess at how basketball games are won and lost.
    — Elise Devlin, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • That goes not with just the basketball.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
  • Its basketball buy-in starts this fall.
    — Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Its basketball buy-in starts this fall.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • He has been asked about basketball.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
  • And, of course, for all his whims on the basketball court to come true.
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • They’re used in basketball, as well.
    — Jason Jones, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • A lot of basketball players know how to do one or two things.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That was a no-brainer for a basketball fan like him.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Redick knows there is plenty of basketball still to be played.
    — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Her date was the co-captain of the basketball team.
    — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Her wish list includes a house with a basketball court.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The new pop-a-shot basketball game would have to wait for after a win.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
  • College basketball can be like life in a fish bowl, in more ways than one.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
  • This city has been without top-flight basketball for too long.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Hurley, for all his faults, is the best coach of basketball.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The rest of the basketball world will just have to wait and see how this story ends.
    — Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Still basketball was never far from her mind.
    — NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But our thing is just to keep playing this style of basketball, where there’s no hold.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Nash was around 4 years old when her love for basketball started.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • This is a great matchup to kick off a busy weekend in college basketball.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Very sad to see him at the Arizona basketball game.
    — Peter D'abrosca , Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The Hawks are playing their best basketball at the right time to do so.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The origins of the phrase can be traced back to a song and a basketball player.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • So Williams walked him through his goals and his future in basketball.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Now, dozens of youth from the area come to the Y's gym to play basketball three days each week.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2022
  • What happens when the best basketball player in the world is out?
    — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Horns outplayed a good basketball team down the stretch.
    — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 26 Jan. 2026

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