How to Use peewee in a Sentence

peewee

noun
  • Dylan was starting goalie on a peewee team that went to state.
    — Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The peewee game involved kids between the ages of six and eight.
    — Stanley Kay, SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Cops were in the stands of my peewee league football games, cheering me on.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The beer-drinking manager of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher to lead his losers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The beer-drinking manager of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher to lead his losers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The beer-drinking manager of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher to lead his losers.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The beer-drinking manager of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher to lead his losers.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Strahan had only ever played in peewee football leagues and hadn’t played any high school sports at all.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Osburn said the city didn't have enough children to field peewee football or little league teams this year.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 25 July 2019
  • Its colorful indoor rock walls are suitable for peewees and pros.
    — A.d. Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
  • Mike Trout played peewee football growing up before baseball took over.
    — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Kind of like when peewee football players line up to shake hands but instead with large groups of 200-pound men.
    — Armando L. Sanchez, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • In a peewee practice, one of my sons collided with a teammate, and the other boy had to quit hockey and miss months of school.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Everyone wants to come talk to the coach who first installed Joey as the peewee team's quarterback in the third grade.
    — Mitch Stacy, ajc, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Aldridge coached the Beast Elite Ducks, a peewee football team of 9 and 10-year-olds.
    — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • It’s situated just a few miles from downtown Knoxville, next to an ill-kempt sports field where kids play peewee football.
    — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The field is home to the high school's football, rugby and lacrosse teams and is also used by peewee football teams and other community groups.
    — Ann Norman, cleveland.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • His voice was pitying and patient, like a peewee-soccer coach imparting a lesson of sportsmanship.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Pita Taumoepenu, 17 years old at the time, was supposed to be watching his younger cousin’s peewee-league practice.
    — Matt Barrows, sacbee.com, 27 May 2017
  • White spent time with family and his former peewee coach and longtime mentor Shaun Hamilton.
    — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The dorade is freed from its sarcophagus at the table, filleted and served with confit peewee potatoes and artichokes.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • After joining forces one year, Harper and Chandler combined for two touchdowns to win their peewee championship game.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In 1981, her first coach, Danny Damario, had stood up for her and awarded her a roster spot in an open minor peewee tryout.
    — Curtis Rush, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The Mobley brothers have played together at every level -- peewee, high school, college and now the NBA.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2022
  • His son John Slusher, executive vice president for global sports marketing at Nike, said his father at one point drove three or four hours a day to coach a peewee soccer team.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • The late-game experiment to move him to quarterback in a peewee game paved the way for a full-time move to running back, where Kerryon Johnson quickly realized his potential.
    — Tom Green, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018

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