How to Use football in a Sentence
football
noun- He played a lot of football in high school and college.
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The ship is nearly the length of three football fields.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
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And that leaves the Pac-12 with one Division I football choice in this part of the world.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
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The Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year for football fans.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
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The end of the year is college football’s moment to shine.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
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Branch hung out with the football team, Heird was around the baseball team.
—Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
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Steeves-Little signed to play football at the school last week.
—Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
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The Ravel, which is the length of a football field, has just 55 bedrooms.
—James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Williams' dad, Chris Williams, used to play football, too.
—Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
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But then on the first day of school, seniors gathered on the football field to watch the sunrise.
—USA Today, 7 June 2023
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This is turf from the high school football field, which is about a quarter-mile away.
—CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
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Works his tail off, loves to practice, loves to play football.
—Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
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The protests once again highlighted the power of the fans in German football.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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His body had recovered, and Smith now had time for the life that football had stolen from him.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
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For one thing, the NBC telecast marked the first time a college football game was shown at night in prime time.
—Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
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The site didn't project the Sun Devils or Wildcats to make a college football bowl game in 2022.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
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On Friday night, the high school football game is an island of light in a sea of darkness.
—Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
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At the events, a current or former football player will come to the school to read a Dr. Seuss book and speak to the students.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 19 Feb. 2025
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Welcome to The Top 25, a weekly rundown of the best of college football.
—C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
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The other side calls for a low-scoring, tight football game.
—Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
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Mack Hollins to block a linebacker, which is not good football in that regard.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 27 Dec. 2022
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But at North, the school resource officer was also the head coach of the football team — and still is.
—Meg Anderson, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
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The heat is what makes playing college football in Gainesville unique.
—Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2022
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Soon the system spread to football teams throughout the midwest.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
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Check out this week’s nominees for the Huntsville area football player of the week and vote in the fan poll below.
—al, 6 Nov. 2022
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It’s not uncommon for high school football players to play on both sides of the ball.
—Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
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The series races through the rest of the football season in its last two episodes with no objective at all.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
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There are 11 games on the college football Week 0 docket.
—Xl Media, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
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At the time, Sharpe was part of CBS’ football pregame show but temporarily stepped aside.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
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The Air units provide support and cushioning and look as if they are set on a platform — a look that nods to a 1994 football boot.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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