How to Use half-court in a Sentence

half-court

noun

• There [aren’t] many half-court buzzer-beaters to lose a game.
  — Khobi Price, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2025
• Walker Park has one full-sized court with two goals and two half-courts with a goal each.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2023
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Arkansas knocks off Louisville 74-73 on U.S. Reed’s half-court shot that beat the buzzer.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Games are played in a half-court setting and have unique rules, such as a four-point shot and the winner being the first to 50 points.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
• Martinez drained a half-court shot at the buzzer, giving the Sailors a 45-44 victory.
  — Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
• The top two teams after those events will then shoot half-court shots to decide a winner.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 18 Feb. 2023
• Even Payton Pritchard rained down a half-court buzzer-beater again, as if that was his job.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
• Houston’s last chance, fittingly, was a half-court heave from Brooks that would’ve stolen the game.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The power of Clark’s half-court three-pointers will be a part of that continued growth.
  — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• Watch Alex Rodriguez sink a $10K half-court shot Spoiler alert!
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
• She’s been a fan since watching Clark, then an Iowa freshman, bury a half-court shot against Ohio State.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
• Once the Sky get into their half-court offense, the 3-point arc will remain a focus.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
• The key for the Terrapins is to slow the game down so both attacks have to operate in a half-court setting.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• Outdoors is a pool, half-court basketball court, pool house and three-car garage.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
• The Irish guards blew up every handoff and disrupted the flow of UConn’s half-court offense.
  — Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
• The Wolves’ half-court offense still struggled for portions of the game, but it was rarely pressed as Golden State couldn’t find a way to put points on the board.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 9 May 2025
• After Palmer sank the first of two free throws, putting her over 1,000 career points, the Vikings jumped around together at half-court.
  — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• New York prefers a deliberate half-court game, ranked 26th in pace.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
• In the matchup, Barajas had to drain one three-pointer from the logo at half-court before Lillard could make three.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
• So the buzzer has buzzed on Mr. Throwback, and no half-court heave (of which Curry can seemingly make as easy as a layup) is here to save it.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
• The teams will play in Miami on a compressed full court (see the first-look image above), unlike the men’s pro Big3 league which plays on a half-court.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• With under a minute to go, Guiney took the ball inside her own 3-point arc, dribbled across half-court, went behind the back and slalomed her way to the basket for a layup.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
• Michigan's lead was 50-49 when McDaniel corralled a loose ball and threw a half-court alley-oop to Tray Jackson.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• Loch Raven used a series of traps and half-court defenses to confound the Perry Hall offense.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
• Coach Kevin Willard said the key to fueling those runs has been an offense that executes to set up the team’s full- and half-court press packages.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024
• Her half-court buzzer-beater at the end of the third quarter gave Rose a 2-point lead heading into the fourth quarter that the club wouldn’t relinquish.
  — Ben Pickman, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
• On the first half-court possession of the game, Boston ran a handoff with Sydney Colson on the wing, springing her for a clean jumper at the free-throw line.
  — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 29 May 2025
• Might the Orlando Magic see Green as the solution to their half-court scoring woes?
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025