How to Use cricket in a Sentence

cricket

1 of 2 noun
  • Try crickets or worms for bluegill.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • It's not lost on me that next year may be just crickets.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • It's not lost on me that next year may be just crickets.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
  • Researchers fed it crickets and fruit flies.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
  • No team sport is quite so obsessed by the colour of the ball as cricket.
    — Matt Roller, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Jiminy's grain-free cookies for dogs are made with crickets and grubs.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • Sometimes crickets chirped in my head.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Come morning, scoop up the crickets.
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • Rugby’s loss has been cricket’s gain.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • His legacy to Test cricket is about more than runs, though.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Come with me right now, the cricket starts in twenty minutes.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Lots of football, cricket, karate.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • As birds slowed their songs, crickets filled the false twilight with their chirping.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Children play cricket in the park alongside it.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • So, does cricket still have a drinking culture?
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • But most bait users stick to tried-and-true oldies — minnows and worms, crawdads and crickets.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Doubtless, cricket will feature at some point, too.
    — Sam Dalling, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And the England cricket team will be happy to head home too.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Like in cricket, the phrase hat trick in hockey also began with a free hat.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The notion of two-tier Test cricket is a contentious one.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The steady hum of crickets was our soundtrack until singing bowls replaced them.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The crickets eat their way through crops in their path, causing losses for farmers.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • It’s done so much for women’s cricket, a sellout at Lord’s here.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • When the lights turned off, a chorus of cricket chirping erupted.
    — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The series was won across only 11 days of cricket.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The music fades and where there were the nocturnal crickets at the start, now there are ocean waves.
    — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In the time since, it's been crickets from Policy.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • David had traveled to play cricket through an exchange program.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • The perception of how cricket is viewed is evident for all to see.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 8 May 2026

cricket

2 of 2 verb
  • Both nations have main character syndrome and believe the cricketing world revolves around them.
    — Darren Richman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • New to cricket Ironically, Moss has only been playing cricket for a few months.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, the sportsbook page offers a market for any bettor from the NFL to cricket.
    — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • He’d been blessed with athletic ability and preternatural skill that his brothers thought might lead him to cricket, like his estranged father, who had played semi-professionally.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Their biggest gripe was the restriction at Lancashire whereby only two former employees of the club are allowed on the board at any one time, a rule the group say has led to a lack of cricketing knowledge at the very top.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Highly rated at Surrey, the 2025 domestic summer gave the wider cricketing world a glimpse of Albert’s all-round talent.
    — Sam Dalling, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But all those experts spoken to by The Athletic insist there is still considerable cricketing talent in the Caribbean.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Gary Lineker once missed a game for Spurs because of an injury sustained in a cricket match he was not supposed to be playing in, and Gary and Phil Neville are still considered the ones that got away by Lancashire because of their cricketing prowess.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 10 May 2026

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