How to Use pennant in a Sentence

pennant

noun
  • The Red Sox won the American League pennant in 2004.
  • The present is the pennant race.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Which means your team is not out of the pennant race yet.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Boone parked it into the left field seats to win the game and the pennant.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Would Ozuna be pleased about the chance to join a pennant chase?
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Orosco threw all sliders and struck out Bass to win the pennant.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • That longest streak came the same year the Mets won a pennant.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • Get your Guardians garb now as Cleveland races for the pennant.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Rockies are going to need more of that as the pennant race heats up.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
  • The two times the Padres won a pennant, they got fed into a wood chipper.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Winning a pennant for the cost of $60 million or so will leave a wart or two.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The grass is green, the birds are chirping, and your favorite team is going to win the pennant.
    — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The Mariners have played 48 pennant-less seasons.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Jays last won a pennant a decade before Yesavage was born.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • On old baseball adage used to say the teams in first place on July 4 would win the pennant.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
  • Our staff has made its picks for who will take home the American League pennant.
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The ensign is hoisted, the pennant is broken, the orders have been read, the first watch set.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
  • He was named the full-time manager during the Phillies’ pennant run.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Dodgers fans can now celebrate another pennant win in style.
    — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Padres hope their spending pays off in a pennant for the first time since 1998.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • More than half the season remains to lock up a postseason spot and compete for a pennant, once again.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • But the rebuild worked, leading to a pennant in 2006.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But the Tigers were in a close race for the American League pennant.
    — Robert Gudmestad, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Stearns would be the lone skipper of the trio to be let go by their respective team without winning the pennant.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Who will win the American League pennant?
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Who will win the National League pennant?
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Giants, the Padres and the Dodgers are fighting for the pennant.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • There could be one of Trench’s Fenway Park pennants hanging in the rafters.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Who could the Padres target in trades to boost their roster and win the NL pennant?
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • How soon that might be could play an outsized role in the division race, and by extension, the pennant chase.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025

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