How to Use surfing in a Sentence

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  • Her hobbies include diving and surfing.
  • At the end of the day, surfing comes ahead of everything else.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • With a very heavy heart the surfing world lost a very talented, very young surfer.
    CBS News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The area is also known for surfing and fishing and for the hiking trails that wind along the coastline.
    Mariette Williams, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Drive north of town for the quietest stretch of beachfront, and if the weather’s right, head to the jetties closer in to do a little surfing.
    Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There’s footage of me skateboarding, learning to ride a bike, surfing.
    Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Spend a day shelling, sunning, surfing, or searching for shark teeth.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2024
  • His surfing partner, Jess Malouf, ended up missing the wave and was able to grab it from the water.
    Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Her family is currently couch-surfing and has not stayed in the same place for more than one night.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Camp Surf is one of the few places the youth in South County can access programs for surfing and boogie boarding.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • At the time, Gracie was teaching and surfing, with the latter coming before the former.
    Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • But with the Pacific Ocean as their backdrop, surfing is a major draw.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • Busan offers some of the best surfing in South Korea, which isn’t saying much.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Wilson created the golden message despite his complete aversion to the beach, the ocean and, most of all, the sport of surfing.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Wearing Kansas City Chief T-shirts and baseball caps to the side, the community group then went back to the surfing motion.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Nor does the amount of other data that has leaked about customers’ surfing habits, which could be used to launch phishing attacks.
    Barry Collins, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Ukraine’s fledgling surfing community has grown up on the beaches of the Black Sea in Odesa.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The mixed use project is expected to include a 55-yard surfing lagoon, shops, restaurants and a hotel.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The Internet and smartphones have changed surfing at Linda Mar, but not entirely for the worse.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Kids spend the afternoon surfing as families watch from the black sand beaches.
    Daniel Cole, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the ruins of Lahaina, a surfing legend leads a volunteer army to get supplies to survivors.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • This pillow makes hands-free surfing so simple and painless.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
  • An iconic photo captures the shirtless rock star crowd surfing, standing atop the crowd.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Rob took up surfing later in life than most of his fellow Malibu natives.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In their place are skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing, all of which debuted in 2021 in Tokyo and all of which are seen as more youth-friendly.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • While the surfing was great, Blythe noted huge swathes of land destroyed from corporate over-farming.
    Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • So my cold-water-dipping friend/surfing friend was the person who recommended this book to me.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Threat Protection also promises to keep your web surfing free of ads and trackers.
    PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The author and public health advocate proves to be quite the athlete on Gutsy, taking on surfing, rappelling, and other sports for the show.
    Clarissa Cruz, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Videos show rooks sledding, swans surfing, and monkeys leaping from high ledges into pools of water.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023

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