How to Use athlete in a Sentence

athlete

noun

• She was quite an athlete as a child.
• Athletes from around the world will be competing at the Olympics.
• The athlete could be then heard laughing at the joke at the end of the video.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• Vote now:Who's your pick for the Louisville high school boys athlete of the week?
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some of them said Quinn had told them the athletes’ names.
  — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2023
• Ross is an elite athlete who can play both ends of the floor.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
• When the world ground to a halt in early 2020, the athlete was in the midst of her season.
  — Glamour, 5 Mar. 2022
• Here’s a look at their first week back in the thick of the student-athlete life.
  — Emily Hollwedel, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
• Get your votes in for the high school track and field athletes of the week by noon Friday.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• Both of these athletes know what works well for their body type.
  — Essence, 2 May 2024
• An area athlete is in the state’s top five in every field event.
  — cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• The athlete has done the skills in practice, after all.
  — T. M. Luhrmann, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• Please note, there will be no athlete of the week voting next week, Dec. 26-30.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 20 Dec. 2022
• Each athlete’s road to Mount Hood—and to sports in the first place—is different.
  — Allison Torres Burtka, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2022
• The athlete’s main talking point has been her wish to inspire young girls to pick up the sport.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022
• The horse is judged on its gait and quality, and each athlete must face on all four sides of the horse.
  — Mary Grace Grabill, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
• But, for many of these athletes, their life is much more than touchdowns and field goals.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
• Gavin was the epitome of a student-athlete, and a leader on and off the field.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
• The athlete was Washington's first-round pick as the fifth pick overall in the 2004 NFL draft.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• The springy swingman is one of the best athletes in league history.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• There are some stars in this year’s game, but what bothers me most isn’t the caliber of athlete.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2022
• At the time of his cardiac arrest, Carter was an elite athlete, playing games in both Brazil and the U.S.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 22 Feb. 2024
• For decades, the best athletes in northern Scotland would compete in the Cabrach Games.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Fiddling with her phone to film her athletes like a proud parent and not a head coach.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Just so much range, great in zone, can fly, just that type of athlete with ball skills is special.
  — Mark Long, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
• As an elite athlete, as an elite soccer player, that’s the point.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• The athlete’s first instinct was correct — Swift performed a total of 149 shows over the course of the Eras Tour‘s run.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2024
• In 1951, he was named the country's top amateur athlete by the AAU.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The complex boasts upgraded weight rooms with smart racks that guide athletes through their workouts.
  — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2025
• And if her blushes during the intro weren’t enough, the episode promises plenty of flirting between the singer and her athlete boyfriend.
  — Rachel McRady, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025