How to Use most valuable player in a Sentence

most valuable player

noun
  • Whoever receives the most votes will be named the area round most valuable player.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2025
  • He was voted to the Pro Bowl and is a finalist for most valuable player.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • No wonder Betts has won a most valuable player award and finished second in the voting three times.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Tatis has arguably been the Padres’ most valuable player in 2025.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Natalie Spooner was named most valuable player as well as forward of the year.
    — Dean Spiros, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024
  • He’s twice finished in the top five in Hart Trophy voting for the league’s most valuable player.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • He was named third-team All-Big Ten and was Michigan’s most valuable player.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • But what’s a nice rookie moment to an archetypal fourth-down highlight from the sport’s most valuable player?
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Stafford, at 38, is the reigning NFL most valuable player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • Henderson was named the game’s defensive most valuable player.
    — Mike Organ, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2025
  • To determine the finalists, voters were asked to rank their top five picks for most valuable player and their top three for the other awards.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Holmes’s counterintuitive idea to turn around the team began with trading away the team’s most valuable player.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But no one was under any illusion as to Atalanta’s most valuable player.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Junior Reese Roldan was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
    — Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • McTavish was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
    — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • The three-time most valuable player, with a helmet on his head, an extra padded batting glove on his left hand and a bat in the other, approached the plate.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Only an eight-week absence due to a knee injury is preventing him from being the Leafs’ most valuable player.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The Chiefs’ annual most valuable player award went to an offensive lineman for the first time in nearly three decades.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2025
  • If there were an award for rap’s most valuable player in 2025, YK Niece would make the short list.
    — Deasia Paige, AJC.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Ohtani finished his season as the favorite to win the American League most valuable player award.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Piper was named to the all-tournament team for his performance, while Banks was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
    — Matt Feld, Boston Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But the championship series most valuable player indicated that visit is no slam dunk.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • Alt was the team’s most valuable player after quarterback Justin Herbert.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Dan Vladar, the goalie who won the Bobby Clarke Trophy as the team's most valuable player, spilled the tea.
    — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Matthew Stafford, the reigning NFL most valuable player, was in a tower at the starting line.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • Maye is a finalist for NFL most valuable player and for offensive player of the year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But then Stafford, the NFL’s likely most valuable player this season, did what Stafford does.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The decision was likely made to ensure the trade value of the two-time most valuable player wasn’t diminished by another injury.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Matthew Stafford is a first-team All-Pro and a favorite to win the NFL most valuable player award.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Running back Kenneth Gainwell was voted the Steelers' most valuable player of the year.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2026

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