How to Use losing/winning record in a Sentence

losing/winning record

noun
  • Should a Hall of Fame coach have a winning record most of the time?
    Mike Sando, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • All the opponents in this eight-game win streak have a losing record.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The floor would be a losing record/no playoffs/no team chemistry.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And by the way, the Hawks made it to the playoffs with a losing record once.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The Chiefs have a winning record when Swift attends their games.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The Royals hope to snap an eight-year drought without a winning record.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • It’s been eight years since the Broncos had a winning record after eight games.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And, yes, Houston hasn’t beaten a team with a winning record in a month.
    Law Murray, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The Bullets put on some great games and improved to a winning record in their fourth year.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • None of the five teams in the AL Central has a winning record.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
  • Last year, the team finished with a losing record for just the third time since 2000.
    Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The Heat is the only team in that bottom five with a winning record this season.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The Texas Rangers have a losing record and are third in their division.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 14 July 2024
  • These are the only two teams in the major leagues that have a winning record on the road and a losing record at home.
    Noah Trister, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
  • The Twins or Guardians could well win the division with a losing record.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The Steelers may have had a winning record last season but aren't a shoo-in to be good again this year.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The Bengals are 0-7 against teams with a winning record this year — all but one by one score.
    Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The Giants have not owned a winning record since the second-to-last day of May.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
  • The Aztecs finished with a losing record for the first time since 2009.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The season could have easily gone off the rails had the Valkyries come out of the week with a losing record.
    Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In Ohtani’s six seasons with the Angels, the team hasn’t even managed a winning record.
    Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In four years of pitching in the big leagues, Lively, 32, never had a winning record.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • For the first time since the end of the 2017 season, Atlanta has a winning record.
    Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Good riddance to a bad year, one in which the Dolphins (8-9) ended with a losing record.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Yankees, meanwhile, have a losing record when their ace, Max Fried, doesn’t start.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
  • Things took a turn for the worse in 2024 as the Cowboys will end the season with a losing record.
    Valentina Martinez, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Last year, the Phillies were slow to get things rolling, not showing a winning record until June 11.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That’s is one of the many reasons the Dolphins have a chance to produce a winning record in 2025.
    Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
  • And yet the Rangers are the only team ranked in the top 10 in ERA with a losing record.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • The Blue Jays had a losing record until the Padres came to town but are now 25-24.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025

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