How to Use track-and-field in a Sentence

track-and-field

adjective
  • The middle schooler competes on girls' cross-country and track-and-field teams.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The start of track-and-field events mark the unofficial halfway point of the Games.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 July 2024
  • The organizers had moved the speech from a smaller venue to a track-and-field complex as big as three football fields.
    — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Emerging actress Jeon So-young takes on the role of Se-ah, a promising track-and-field athlete.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The entire track-and-field team, boys and girls, consists of about 30 participants, half of whom are in middle school.
    — Josh Moore, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2023
  • His interest in discus led him to become the track-and-field coach at Camelback High School.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Baynton, like a true competitor, arrived in track-and-field gear, complete with extremely small running shorts that showed off his long, lean legs.
    — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 12 June 2026
  • Tartan track is sort of the track-and-field version of Astroturf , originally designed for horse tracks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Rather, Jackson said that her daughter is a gifted track-and-field athlete hoping to follow in her father's footsteps.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
  • President Barack Obama often used a track-and-field metaphor to talk about the presidency.
    — Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • Landmark Christian freshman Melanie Doggett’s performance at the state track-and-field meet set the world ablaze last week.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 18 May 2026
  • He’s known in the community both for his high school and college track-and-field career, as well as his work advocating for learning and helping those in need.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Italian track-and-field athletes born to Senegalese or Nigerian immigrants have medalled in each of the last two Olympics.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
  • The online posting from Libby called out a transgender athlete who competed in the state's track-and-field championship.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 May 2025
  • The model was originally introduced in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics as a track-and-field shoe.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Girls in Campbell’s softball and track-and-field programs allegedly changed in the bleachers by a practice field in open view, holding up jackets to cover each other.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Even the champion will admit being a full-time athlete wasn’t a given, despite coming from a family of Olympic track-and-field competitors.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 July 2024
  • In Rio, the runner was an anxious up-and-comer, the youngest American track-and-field Olympian since 1972.
    — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
  • During her track-and-field career, Felix has won 11 Olympic medals, seven of which are gold, and has a record 20 medals from world championships.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Staten Island’s Ocean Breeze athletic complex is one of the few rec centers in the city with a full indoor track-and-field facility.
    — The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
  • And this is the first year that men and women are competing in the same number of track-and-field events, after the IOC cut the men’s 50-kilometer race walk.
    — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
  • In addition to the international travel her plan requires, heroine and track-and-field star Mizuki must cross-dress to attend the all-boys school where her high-jumping beau studies.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Humanoid robot-athletes competed in dance battles, martial arts, track-and-field events and soccer over the weekend in a three-day competition hosted in Beijing.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The annual track-and-field season has just begun, and there is a slew of events between now—April—and the Games’ opening ceremony on the Seine in July.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • Then, a 67-year-old man took to the field and stood at the top of the throwing circle, stopping the elementary school track-and-field event in British Columbia, Starr said.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • A couple of years ago, Ohanian founded Athlos, a series of women’s track-and-field events showcasing some of America’s best athletes.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The act then gave way to a track-and-field tribute that included a reimagining of the Course des Cafés and a flurry of models in clothes that nodded to the period entre deux guerres in various ways.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 June 2024
  • Paralympic track-and-field star and Lululemon ambassador Hunter Woodhall shares what his global travels are like wearing two prosthetic legs.
    — Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Allyson Felix, a track-and-field star with 11 Olympic medals to her name, brought the first-ever Olympic nursery to the athletes village, in partnership with Pampers.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
  • The dispute stems from a post Libby shared to Facebook in February that called attention to a transgender athlete who placed first in the girls' pole vault at the state's track-and-field championship.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2025

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