How to Use Triple Crown in a Sentence
Triple Crown
noun- Who was the last player to win the Triple Crown in the American League?
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Sale is the first NL player to win the pitching Triple Crown since 2011.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing event asks surfers to submit video clips of their best waves.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2023
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There have only been a handful of horses to win the Triple Crown.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2025
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The seven-month-old twins watched as racehorse Dornoch won the last run of the Triple Crown series.
—Ana Calderone, Peoplemag, 9 June 2024
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Journalism was the only horse to run in all three Triple Crown races.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
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He’s never led his league in any one of the Triple Crown categories.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The winning trainer is the first woman to train a Triple Crown [race] winner.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
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In recent years, good times and carefree vibes have been hard for Baffert to find on the Triple Crown trail.
—Joe Drape, New York Times, 17 May 2024
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The Triple Crown clocks in at a cool $275 per session (plus tip) and does not include extractions.
—Annie Blay, Allure, 11 Apr. 2024
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Skubal also became the first AL player to win the pitching Triple Crown in a full season since 2011.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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But the race, which was only the fourth time the three Triple Crown winners have raced in the Travers, turned out to be all about Arcangelo, the winner.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
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Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty did not compete in the second leg of the three races that make up the Triple Crown.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN Money, 18 May 2025
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Later that year, Honnold set the record for completing the Triple Crown as a team of one, doing it in 18 hours 55 minutes.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
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Baffert, a Hall of Fame trainer, is one of only two who have won all three Triple Crown races in a single year more than once.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 4 July 2023
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The trend has created a debate about whether the Triple Crown, with three races spaced apart by just two weeks, is too taxing on horses.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 18 May 2025
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Journalism prevailed for the sanctity of the Triple Crown.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
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The bay is full of yachts whose names, like Gallant Lady, could double as those of Triple Crown–winning stallions.
—Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
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Ohtani hit another home run, stole another base and kept his chances of winning the Triple Crown alive.
—Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
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Sovereignty, whose connections opted to not run him in the Preakness Stakes, is back for the final race of the 2025 Triple Crown season.
—Wire Reports, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
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Harlocap is a son of Triple Crown winner Justify and can improve and run better near the lead.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
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Sixty home runs, in the running for the Triple Crown, fantastic defender.
—Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
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How to pre-order The move of the draw coincides with a new requirement revealed in the Triple Crown nomination form for 2024.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2024
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The attorneys sold controlling interest of the horse in February of that year, but retained a 20% stake through the Triple Crown races.
—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2024
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Judge’s recent spray of hits has boosted his batting average to .316, adding a shot at the coveted Triple Crown.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Sep. 2022
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Justify becomes the thirteenth Triple Crown winner and the first since American Pharoah in 2015.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
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The Belmont traditionally garners the lower ratings of the Triple Crown races so long as a horse is not in the running for the esteemed treble.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 10 June 2025
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That made this a fifth time in seven years that the Preakness, for various reasons, was contested without a Triple Crown bid at stake.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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The 24-hour endurance auto-racing event features more than 60 auto teams competing in the final race of the Triple Crown of Motorsport.
—Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
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The point is that the exigencies of the Preakness and its tough placement within the Triple Crown demands that the fresh horses be looked at freshly and that the Derby horses be thrown a little shade.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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