How to Use surfing in a Sentence

surfing

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  • Her hobbies include diving and surfing.
  • This is kind of what surfing feels like to me.
    — Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And if the surfing isn’t blowing your mind?
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2026
  • In late May, she was laid off and went back to couch-surfing.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2020
  • The beds were firm and great for my tired body after a long day of surfing.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024
  • This will be warm-water surfing in a bathing suit and light rash guard.
    — Mindy Sink, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025
  • That’s not just a surfing problem.
    — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • At the end of the day, surfing comes ahead of everything else.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The child’s death is now the fourth — and youngest — child to die this year by subway surfing.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There’s no question that Tamarindo is known for its surfing scene.
    — Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The backwash from waves hitting the shore made the surfing there bumpy.
    — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2020
  • With a very heavy heart the surfing world lost a very talented, very young surfer.
    — CBS News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But protecting a surfing spot can be risky.
    — Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Is hiking or surfing enhanced by doing it in the pitch black?
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Or take a surfing lesson yourself to get in on the action.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • Our goal was to make this the most authentic surfing show ever.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Private and group surfing lessons are available.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Those couch surfing days are not that far in the rearview — roughly five years — though much has happened since.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Lagos is known as the Algarve’s top surfing hub.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
  • Lagos is known as the Algarve’s top surfing hub.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The film’s stars are three of surfing’s top performers on Tour and film.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The six miles of beach are perfect for surfing, but also shelling and just plain sitting.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And hopefully two more will be long enough to get a feel for moshing and crowd-surfing again.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 May 2021
  • That shape is still used and viable in today’s longboard surfing.
    — Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • There’s footage of me skateboarding, learning to ride a bike, surfing.
    — Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Soon, crowd-surfing reigned and fans launched water bottles into the air as droplets rained down.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One mother and child were still couch-surfing, post-eviction, unable to find a place of their own.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Kenya’s coast offers seamless bush-to-beach transfers and world-class kite-surfing.
    — Karin Jones, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Just months ago, the world's largest surfing wave pool opened up on the island — filled with freshwater.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Big wave surfing has never been about the money for the elite surfers around the world who chase the biggest swells.
    — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2020

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