How to Use cheerleader in a Sentence

cheerleader

noun
  • These are the 16 best movies and TV shows that put the spotlight on cheerleaders.
    EW.com, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In 2011, a cheerleader at the local high school erupted in a fit of spasms.
    Azeen Ghorayshi Amber Bracken, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Stone was a cheerleader, and two of her teammates from the fall are managers for the wrestling team.
    Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The Raiders’ supporters and cheerleaders came out in full force as the spotlight hung above the mat.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The ball was stuck on top of the backboard for a while, then was retrieved by an LSU cheerleader.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Thank you for being the chief cook, counselor, taxi driver, cheerleader, and best all-around mom in the world.
    Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The photo shows a young man wearing a wig and a cheerleader’s uniform.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • As a cloudy sky threatened a downpour, the marching band played the school’s fight song, cheerleaders shook pom-poms, and a dance line sashayed.
    Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
  • That evening the cheerleaders returned to the Elgin H-E-B parking lot and parted ways to drive home.
    Kennedy Sessions, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But Yowell never got close to touching the field and didn't want to spend the rest of his college career as a cheerleader.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The cheerleaders actually got a break when LJCD scored 35 points in the third quarter.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • And days after Gillis was killed, two cheerleaders were shot in Elgin, Tex.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Two cheerleaders were shot after one approached the wrong car.
    Joseph De Avila, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Part of her intention was to correct the record on who the first real male cheerleaders were at a Super Bowl.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The family said the shooting left the teen, a cheerleader at Lincoln High School, paralyzed from the waist down.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • No one else is going to be a cheerleader in helping me toward death.
    oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Security walked across the court to the cheerleader, who grabbed a jacket and was escorted off the court.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Two cheerleaders — wearing dark leggings — climbed on a small stage and waved silver pompoms in the air.
    Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • An ‘All-American Look’ At least one case emerged under his watch — the complaints by the cheerleaders.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • Ryan, a cheerleader, later worked as a coach at Cheer Athletics, a Plano gym.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The shooting of the cheerleaders is likely to further fuel the discussion.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Abbie Bosco has spent a good deal of her time at Andrew on the sidelines, rooting on the Thunderbolts as a cheerleader.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • He’s been a team captain twice, and a department cheerleader.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But no dancers or cheerleaders were provided for Piper Davis events.
    Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Teenage cheerleaders stopped outside a supermarket, and one of them got into the wrong car.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Police arrested a suspect in the killing of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in her bathtub in Texas.
    Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The cheerleader in Texas simply wanted to find her car in a dark parking lot after practice.
    Susan C. Beachy, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Two other cheerleaders at the scene were not injured, the cheer company said on Facebook.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Fans of the trailer will be relieved to know that one of its most gruesome scenes, involving a cheerleader, a trampoline and a knife, is back.
    Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Emergencies are a given: A cheerleader who fell during a routine and chipped a tooth.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023

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