How to Use bobsled in a Sentence

bobsled

noun
  • He drove a bobsled in the winter Olympics.
  • None have come in the sliding sports of bobsled, luge or skeleton.
    — JerÉ Longman and Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Much like bobsled, the most important part of the event is at the start.
    — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Ramos liked the idea — once someone explained to him what a bobsled was.
    — Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Never ridden a bobsled, slid on a skeleton or kicked a rugby ball?
    — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • That count is higher now with shocking bobsled, ice dance, and hockey upsets.
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 22 Feb. 2018
  • So many things are bound to be redundant, like the look of bobsled after bobsled hurtling down the same track.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • While bobsled is a new sport for Adigun, competing at the highest ranks is not.
    — Tish Hamilton, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Russia is set to hold the world championships in bobsled and skeleton in Sochi in two months.
    — Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
  • The Jamaicans finished the race by carrying the bobsled over their heads.
    — Justin Kirkland, Esquire, 21 Feb. 2018
  • McGuffie, who played football at Rice, will compete in the four-man bobsled later this week.
    — Reid Laymance, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • For a bobsled, one tiny pockmark can cause a sled to bounce, perpetuating the problem.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Vonetta Flowers, that wonderful woman, won a gold medal in the bobsled.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Elana Meyers Taylor, now a three-time medalist in bobsled, has held down a job between training stints.
    — Barry Svrluga, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The device, a mix between a miniature jet ski and a bobsled, thrusts riders above and below the water at up to around 12 miles per hour.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
  • On the bobsled, three amateurs are paired with a professional pilot, while skeleton novices get strapped to their own sled and sent down the hill solo.
    — John Patrick Pullen, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2012
  • Videos in 360 degrees will be limited to non-competition features such as a demo run down the bobsled.
    — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Skeleton is the superior sport of the Winter Olympics, yet many people forget about it or compare it to the luge or bobsled.
    — Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Mariama Jamanka won the women's bobsled, giving Germany its fifth gold medal in eight sliding events so far at Pyeongchang.
    — Tim Brown, OregonLive.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The Olympic teams for men's bobsled, women's skeleton and men's skeleton are scheduled to be nominated Monday.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2018
  • For the final day of competition, the two attended four-man bobsled, and spent time with Lauren Gibbs, the silver medalist in bobsled.
    — Maggie Hendricks, For The Win, 24 Feb. 2018
  • In the first phase of the project, the USOC is looking only for athletes for cycling, rugby and the sliding sports of bobsled and skeleton.
    — Eddie Pells, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
  • The monobob is similar to the NASCAR Clash in which each vehicle, in this case a bobsled, is the same.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • When the 2018 Winter Olympics come to an end this weekend, when the last bobsled has crossed the finish line, politics will have one more chance to elbow into the picture.
    — David Wharton, latimes.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Now, bobsleds contain accelerometers and gyroscopes that provide 100 data points every second.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The women will be the first athletes (male or female) to represent Nigeria in any sport in the Winter Olympics and the first to compete in bobsled from the entire continent of Africa.
    — Tish Hamilton, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In the evening, as the host pitched questions about which country invented the bobsled and what state is the birthplace of the Star Spangled Banner, Banfi walked to the soda fountain and filled a red glass with iced tea.
    — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018

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