How to Use football in a Sentence

football

noun
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  • He played a lot of football in high school and college.
  • The ship is nearly the length of three football fields.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • And that leaves the Pac-12 with one Division I football choice in this part of the world.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • The Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year for football fans.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The end of the year is college football’s moment to shine.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Branch hung out with the football team, Heird was around the baseball team.
    — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Steeves-Little signed to play football at the school last week.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • The Ravel, which is the length of a football field, has just 55 bedrooms.
    — James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Williams' dad, Chris Williams, used to play football, too.
    — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But then on the first day of school, seniors gathered on the football field to watch the sunrise.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • This is turf from the high school football field, which is about a quarter-mile away.
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Works his tail off, loves to practice, loves to play football.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The protests once again highlighted the power of the fans in German football.
    — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • His body had recovered, and Smith now had time for the life that football had stolen from him.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • On Friday night, the high school football game is an island of light in a sea of darkness.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • Mack Hollins to block a linebacker, which is not good football in that regard.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 27 Dec. 2022
  • But at North, the school resource officer was also the head coach of the football team — and still is.
    — Meg Anderson, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The series races through the rest of the football season in its last two episodes with no objective at all.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
  • But all four of those men spent well over half their football careers in other cities.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This was a football game, not a call to put out a fire or to investigate a homicide.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Court documents state the plaintiff drove to the school and delivered the leis to members of the St. Louis football team.
    — Justin Spears, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
  • The state’s big schools held their state championships on Friday, and now the small school football teams are taking the field.
    — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Even the most ardent football fans are wise to the true highlight of Super Bowl Sunday.
    — Matt Brooks, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Ma’s office is a giant box of lasers the size of three football fields in the corner of a 7,000-acre lab in Livermore.
    — Bill Weir, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • Print out football coloring pages for any team or player, and let the kids go wild.
    — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Lazenby said his love of the game of football has not wavered in nearly five decades of coaching.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 4 May 2023
  • Speaking of college football, the season is in full swing.
    — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The iconic norteño band was formed in the Bay Area back in 1968 and has been an avid supporter of the NorCal football team ever since.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The Bills know that Allen is playing the best football of his career, with the likely league accolades to follow.
    — Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • It’s got football highlight film track written all over it due to the production and delivery.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 Dec. 2024

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