How to Use athlete in a Sentence

athlete

noun
  • She was quite an athlete as a child.
  • Athletes from around the world will be competing at the Olympics.
  • The athlete could be then heard laughing at the joke at the end of the video.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Vote now:Who's your pick for the Louisville high school boys athlete of the week?
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Some of them said Quinn had told them the athletes’ names.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Ross is an elite athlete who can play both ends of the floor.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
  • Here’s a look at their first week back in the thick of the student-athlete life.
    — Emily Hollwedel, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Get your votes in for the high school track and field athletes of the week by noon Friday.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
  • Both of these athletes know what works well for their body type.
    — Essence, 2 May 2024
  • An area athlete is in the state’s top five in every field event.
    — cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Please note, there will be no athlete of the week voting next week, Dec. 26-30.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Each athlete’s road to Mount Hood—and to sports in the first place—is different.
    — Allison Torres Burtka, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The horse is judged on its gait and quality, and each athlete must face on all four sides of the horse.
    — Mary Grace Grabill, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
  • But, for many of these athletes, their life is much more than touchdowns and field goals.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Gavin was the epitome of a student-athlete, and a leader on and off the field.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The athlete was Washington's first-round pick as the fifth pick overall in the 2004 NFL draft.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The springy swingman is one of the best athletes in league history.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There are some stars in this year’s game, but what bothers me most isn’t the caliber of athlete.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2022
  • At the time of his cardiac arrest, Carter was an elite athlete, playing games in both Brazil and the U.S.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 22 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, the best athletes in northern Scotland would compete in the Cabrach Games.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Fiddling with her phone to film her athletes like a proud parent and not a head coach.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Just so much range, great in zone, can fly, just that type of athlete with ball skills is special.
    — Mark Long, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
  • As an elite athlete, as an elite soccer player, that’s the point.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
  • The athlete’s first instinct was correct — Swift performed a total of 149 shows over the course of the Eras Tour‘s run.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In 1951, he was named the country's top amateur athlete by the AAU.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • For two-plus decades, as the wrestling coach at Methuen High, Bill James has been making sure each of his athletes is cared for.
    — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Oregonian/OregonLive find who the top athlete of the week was.
    — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2022
  • One of the best ways to improve your performance as an athlete is to build up your strength.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Most athletes aspire to play right away, and that isn’t always realistic.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
  • For centuries, athletes, monks, and yogis have known what science has more recently begun to quantify: breath is ‘a mirror’ of the body.
    — William Jones, USA Today, 8 July 2025

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