How to Use spectator sport in a Sentence
spectator sport
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Some prefer it as a spectator sport.
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Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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The city is teeming with wildlife, and taking it in is a spectator sport.
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Abbey Hudetz,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2026
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Democracy is not a spectator sport.
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Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Building new businesses is not a spectator sport.
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Andrew Binns,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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And $35 to watch the curling, which has never really caught on as a spectator sport here.
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Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
31 Dec. 2025
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Tennis is unlike any other spectator sport.
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Rachel Chang,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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Or at least until more realize that dinner is not a spectator sport, and that the best sound at a restaurant is still the person sitting across from you.
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Allyson Reedy,
Denver Post,
13 May 2026
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Celebrity engagements are a spectator sport.
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Malaika Crawford,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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Today cohost Dylan Dreyer just showed how golf can be a dangerous spectator sport.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Nov. 2025
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Yet today’s deeply competitive professional and spectator sport that spans the globe has far more local origins.
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Thomas Adam,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Professional gaming as a spectator sport isn't for everyone.
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Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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But as baseball became a serious endeavor, drag racing turned into a spectator sport for Headrick.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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That’s life playing the toughest position in America’s most popular spectator sport.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Once restricted to an elite group of editors sitting in the front row at runway shows, critiquing collections has become a spectator sport, with millions delivering instant verdicts online.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
3 Nov. 2025
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Those initiatives had a good foundation to build on since soccer is Canada’s most popular sport in terms of registration and participation and ranks behind only hockey as a spectator sport.
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Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Youth participation has soared, soccer passing baseball to become the second-most-popular sport among teenagers, while a poll released by the Economist in January showed soccer to be America’s third-most-popular spectator sport, trailing only football and basketball.
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Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
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