red card

noun

soccer

: a red card that a referee holds in the air to indicate that a player who has broken the rules of the game will not be allowed to continue playing

Examples of red card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

These unforeseen obstacles were in addition to the more standard challenges a team must surmount over the course of a season, like missing players to red card suspensions — but even then, Racing was forced to hold a tough hand. —Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025

The 38-year-old was given a red card near the end of the first half of overtime and was sent to the locker room minutes before his team lost in penalty kicks in the opening round of the USL playoffs after a scoreless 120 minutes. —Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2025

But Charlotte will make the road trip with star winger Wilfried Zaha (who got a red card in the final seconds of the previous game and missed this one, watching it from a stadium suite). —Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025

Dallas played the final 79 minutes with a one-man advantage after Vancouver’s Mathías Laborda received a red card in the 11th minute. —Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for red card

• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard
• courtyard
• debarred
• diehard