How to Use esport in a Sentence

esport

noun
  • For more than two decades, esports has been built around clubs.
    — Sportico Sponsored Content, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • For more than two decades, esports has been built around clubs.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Liquid is the Dodgers of WoW esports.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In this race, a team of esports athletes stare forward at a screen instead of the starting line.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Most recently, chess has evolved into an esport.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Stream ads during esports content.
    — Adam Rumanek, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Again, esports offers a blueprint.
    — Jennifer Acree, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That is certainly a good sign for a successful event, and more esports is never a bad thing.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • One aspect of Apex esports that sets it apart from the pack is the unique way in which its championship is crowned.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The former follows a gamer named Casey at her high school’s first esports tournament.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Here's how esports has already cracked the code, and what traditional sports leaders can learn from it.
    — Jennifer Acree, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Like many athletes, esports pros tend to end their careers relatively young.
    — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
  • People know about his love of esports, but he was fascinated by snooker and horse racing, too.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • All of this makes the Boomslang a formidable esports mouse.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Far from being a niche, the digital-first world of esports has become a mainstream, global force.
    — Jennifer Acree, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And then for esports, there is the numbers, like the 700 million esports fans out there at this point in time, right?
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Sawyers excels in esports and was described as the driving force behind his team at Creek Wood.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • As with any athlete from different disciplines, esports players don’t all have the same needs.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
  • Despite his young age, the stakes couldn’t be higher, making his journey in esports about more than just winning titles.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 May 2025
  • Since then, the game has spawned a digital game, esports league, comic book series, and a best-selling novel.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Part of the move was splitting Faze into two businesses, media and esports.
    — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Olympic esports are unlikely to be like private tournaments, though.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 July 2024
  • There is an appetite among some esports players to use AI to help coach future stars, Tan said.
    — Lucy Handley, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Pro gaming mouse into a perfect match for esports players looking for the lightest and fastest controller.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • According to a new survey, negative perceptions of esports are a thing of the past.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Riot’s esports arm wasn’t profitable more than a decade after launching, for example.
    — Cecilia D’anastasio, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the event highlights include a block party, esports competitions, and a cosplay game show.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the event highlights include a block party, esports competitions, and a cosplay game show.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • James Hansen Can tennis and esports finally produce a video game worthy of the sport?
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The industry’s growth arose from esports being more fun, even in failure, than traditional stick and ball sports.
    — John Cairney, Sportico.com, 24 May 2025

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