How to Use pigskin in a Sentence

pigskin

noun
  • The collar is made of pigskin.
  • But this year, the roundball — not the pigskin — reigns supreme.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But the 39-year-old athlete doesn’t just stick to the pigskin.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2017
  • The depths of the bowl gave up ribbons of pigskin and cross-sections of heart.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Queen, seeing only the end zone ahead of him tried to snatch up the pigskin and go.
    — Steve Svekis, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Ask him to drop one in a bucket from 40 yards out, and that pigskin plunked in.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The man just wants to toss the pigskin around with his sons, who are both on the football team now, okay?
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 June 2021
  • Now, who's up for tossing around the ol' pigskin after dinner?
    — Taylor Murphy, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Now, who's up for tossing around the ol' pigskin after dinner?
    — Taylor Murphy, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Karty’s foot met the leather pigskin, and then the ball found the hand of a defender.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • His road to Bearcat fame as a pinpoint pigskin placer was almost a fluke.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Time to fire up the grill, whip out the pigskin and cue the fight song – the college football season is here.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The room itself is the shape of a football, and appointed with blue faux-pigskin walls.
    — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • To start the 990v5 process, the factory floor needs flats full of pigskin hide.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Get out the ol' pigskin and divide the crew up into teams for an old-fashioned game of touch or flag football.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Many viewers come to the pigskin classic expecting to laugh or be surprised.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Is this a lot to ask of a quarterback that merely tosses a pigskin 20 times a year?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Young picked up the loose pigskin and scored what was eventually the game-winning touchdown.
    — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But leave it to Griffin, of course, to intertwine purpose and pigskin.
    — Shannon Green, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Pick some up in the bakery for your hometown pigskin crew or ship nationwide to your favorite out-of-state fans.
    — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But please take your seat at Rentschler Field before the pigskin is placed on the tee for opening kickoff.
    — Chris Brodeur, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • With a sport jacket on, Burton also delivered, pulling the pigskin out of the sky.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The Dolphins’ ball carriers never lost control of the pigskin.
    — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Think Gary Cooper with a pigskin instead of a Smith & Wesson.
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 25 Oct. 2017
  • And as the pigskin flew that winter day, the tree blew through the streets of the Jewish neighborhood where Daniels lived.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The pigskin and field at Cardinal Stadium might be a bit slippery.
    — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Arrion Hughes recovered a high, poor snap that sailed over the punter’s head and took the pigskin all the way to the 1-yard line.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Detroit’s first drive ended on a fourth-and-1 stop at its 45, foreshadowing the pigskin plot.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Glen Powell is taking his pigskin from the beaches of San Diego to the gridirons of the South.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2024

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