How to Use personal best in a Sentence

personal best

noun
  • Poehling already has a career high in points and is one shy of his personal best for goals.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
  • This spring, his personal best is 7-1, which is the eighth-best mark in the country.
    — Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • Crovetto got a personal best, but his 48-2½ was short.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • That 200 title was his second straight and a personal best for him in the event.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Nesbitt’s personal best is a 30-point game this season.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But with his performance at Berlin, Styles has now beat his own personal best.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
  • His 49 assists are a career high and his 11 goals are one short of his personal best.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That’s a new personal best for the singer-songwriter on the competitive list.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Moments later, De Oliveira — who had been on pace for a personal best — also paused his race.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Seven of the eight participants in the final ran a personal best.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Harel cleared 7-2 on his first attempt — a personal best — tying for fourth on the national list this year.
    — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
  • On Cloudsurfer Next Looking to shave a few seconds off your personal best?
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2025
  • After Hall set a personal best in the long jump by nearly a foot, Dugue’s job was done, even with two events remaining.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This was a personal best time by more than a minute for Kiplimo, who’s sponsored by Nike, and the seventh-fastest men’s marathon time ever.
    — Bette Canter, Sportico.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Jovani Moran, whose three scoreless innings on Saturday were a new personal best, wasn’t able to record an out in the sixth.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
  • By halftime, Scheierman already had set a single-game career high for assists (five) and was one shy of his personal best in rebounds (nine).
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Kansas State's Daniela Wamokpego claimed the triple-jump crown with a personal best of 45-4 3/4.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • His best time at a competition is 20 seconds, and his overall personal best is 12 seconds.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Andrew Torgashev skated to a personal best in the men’s singles short program in his Olympic debut.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Tarleton State's Likesh Sathyanathan leaped a personal best 26-11 1/4 to win the long jump.
    — ABC News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Carl, who spent much of the day photographing bark and woodpeckers, was savoring his 12th night camping this season, a personal best.
    — Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Whether his work on Anderson’s woozy epic of resistance is his personal best is debatable — the competition is fierce.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Stenstrom delivered with a six-point throw, not only helping take home the victory for Walpole, but also throwing his personal best.
    — Hannah Hughes, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • Whether in-stadium viewing key plays or recording a personal best in the gym, the Ostand case ensures these once-only moments are fully captured.
    — New Atlas, 14 June 2026
  • His yards per carry is currently the second-highest in his career and just a half-yard shy of his personal best from his rookie season in 2022.
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Yet Rolex still has hefty market demands to fulfill; the business currently sells over a million watches every year, a personal best for the luxury brand.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Aleksandr Selevko, the four-time Estonian national champion, scored a personal best in the short program to round out the top three.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Kansas junior Ashton Barkdull won the pole vault, clearing a personal best 19 feet, 0 1/4 inches on his second try.
    — ABC News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Combined with earnings from the contemporary sale that followed, Sotheby’s raked in $706 million total in a personal best for the global auction house.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The figure smashes Styles’ previous personal best with Harry’s House, which opened with sales of 113,000.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2026

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