How to Use halfback in a Sentence

halfback

noun

• The halfback has missed the last three games with a hamstring injury.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 24 Oct. 2021
• Late in the game, a sweep play turned into a halfback pass that went for a touchdown to clinch the win.
  — Marco Cummings, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• Then the halfback’s cell phone rang—turns out, Rosenhaus was on the other line.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• There was also a big run on a direct snap to a halfback and a couple of onside kicks.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 14 Nov. 2020
• This was a two-halfback thing, last seen in the days of Amos Alonzo Stagg.
  — Mark Bradley, ajc, 23 Sep. 2017
• And on the next play, halfback Curtis Samuel ran the ball in 15 yards for the win.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2016
• The halfback known as Johnny Blood was one of the game's first big receiving threats.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2022
• With the game on the line, the Eagles tried some trickery with a halfback pass by Parent.
  — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
• His effect is hard to explain in an age when fullbacks are going the way of the defensive halfback and the drop kick.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• Auburn’s first 1,000-yard rusher, Gafford was a halfback and wingback in the pros.
  — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 20 Feb. 2022
• Out of the wishbone, the Colts lined up middle linebacker Austin Young at halfback.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Cowboys tried two other halfback passes, but the Hawks defused them.
  — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• Okonkwo can generate yards after the catch, block and line up as a halfback, the kind of skill set the Ravens covet in a run-heavy scheme.
  — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2022
• The halfback pass staked the visiting Lions to a 7-0 early lead.
  — Randy Kennedy, al, 30 Sep. 2022
• Mary again went to the workhorse on a halfback toss, but the ball popped out on a hit from Streetsboro’s Chris Golson.
  — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2019
• The play that comes to mind is the halfback pitch to Micah Bernard late in the third quarter at Florida.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
• The problem is that McCaffrey is now 29, which is fairly old for a halfback.
  — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• Donovan Snyder caught a 63-yard pass on a halfback option to start a Cavemen drive.
  — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2017
• Now, as The Wall Street Journal reports, halfback-ing is on the upswing.
  — Southern Living, 16 May 2018
• Third-year halfback Chase Edmonds will get a crack at being the every-down back for the first time in his career, his fourth with the team.
  — Jack Magruder, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Threw a halfback pass for a TD in fourth quarter to beat Aragon, a win Cap needed to share league title.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024
• Middleton was a halfback at Auburn and an SEC 100-yard dash champ.
  — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 17 Apr. 2023
• Walsh said — from the get-go and included a 65-yard double pass from halfback Nate Sanchez to Loville.
  — Mitch Stephens, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• His pass deflection was terrific coverage on a halfback angle route, never giving the running back any room.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
• Hall of Fame halfback won three NFL championships and earned a spot on the 1930s all-decade team.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
• On Sunday night, the Patriots got 72 yards - 26% of their total - on a flea flicker and a halfback pass.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• The pounding ensued even more with a touchdown from senior halfback Ibrahim Kaba and a bomb caught by Ramar Thomas to close out the game.
  — Patrick Plunkett, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
• The only player in the Hall of Fame with fewer games is Joe Guyon, a triple-threat halfback from the 1920s.
  — Nat Newell, Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2019
• Brown was a retired player with the Cleveland Browns, and McClinton a former Chiefs halfback.
  — J.m. Banks may 8, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2026
• The first recipient was Fred Gehrke, the Rams halfback who devised the idea of a helmet logo in 1948.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 26 May 2022