How to Use half-court in a Sentence

half-court

noun
  • Walker Park has one full-sized court with two goals and two half-courts with a goal each.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2023
  • Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Games are played in a half-court setting and have unique rules, such as a four-point shot and the winner being the first to 50 points.
    — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
  • Martinez drained a half-court shot at the buzzer, giving the Sailors a 45-44 victory.
    — Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The top two teams after those events will then shoot half-court shots to decide a winner.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Even Payton Pritchard rained down a half-court buzzer-beater again, as if that was his job.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
  • Houston’s last chance, fittingly, was a half-court heave from Brooks that would’ve stolen the game.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The power of Clark’s half-court three-pointers will be a part of that continued growth.
    — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Watch Alex Rodriguez sink a $10K half-court shot Spoiler alert!
    — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The key for the Terrapins is to slow the game down so both attacks have to operate in a half-court setting.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Outdoors is a pool, half-court basketball court, pool house and three-car garage.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
  • The Irish guards blew up every handoff and disrupted the flow of UConn’s half-court offense.
    — Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • After Palmer sank the first of two free throws, putting her over 1,000 career points, the Vikings jumped around together at half-court.
    — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In the matchup, Barajas had to drain one three-pointer from the logo at half-court before Lillard could make three.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The teams will play in Miami on a compressed full court (see the first-look image above), unlike the men’s pro Big3 league which plays on a half-court.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
  • With under a minute to go, Guiney took the ball inside her own 3-point arc, dribbled across half-court, went behind the back and slalomed her way to the basket for a layup.
    — The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Michigan's lead was 50-49 when McDaniel corralled a loose ball and threw a half-court alley-oop to Tray Jackson.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Loch Raven used a series of traps and half-court defenses to confound the Perry Hall offense.
    — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Coach Kevin Willard said the key to fueling those runs has been an offense that executes to set up the team’s full- and half-court press packages.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024
  • As part of a halftime promotion, fans who successfully make a half-court shot win a grand prize of free Chick-fil-A for a year.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Royals, who led 17-0 after the first quarter, managed to get off a half-court shot in that final second but the ball landed well short of the basket.
    — Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2025
  • When Orlando’s half-court offense seemed stuck in the mud, the Magic had no choice but to take advantage of Charlotte’s turnovers.
    — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
  • After the game, Pitino symbolically placed the sweater on the St. John’s logo at half-court.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But opponents most fear Murray as a tall, quick-release catch-and-shoot weapon from out to nearly 30 feet in a half-court setting.
    — Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Working them in transition instead of coming down and trying to play half-court offense all the time.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
  • The All-Star Game has become a farce of a basketball game: guys chucking up shots from half-court and trying stupid dunks, all while not even a sniff of defense can be found.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The offense is fluid, guards have figured out when to push in transition and when to utilize Jones as a half-court playmaker.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
  • Hayward missed the game-winning buzzer-beating half-court shot in his final collegiate game.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025

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