How to Use player in a Sentence

player

noun
  • She's one of the team's best players.
  • The band's lead guitar player hurt his hand and couldn't play.
  • Piano players are called pianists.
  • In the game, one player is the ant and wasp, the other player is the beetle larva and adult.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Knowles is also the son of Mark Knowles, once the No. 1 doubles tennis player in the world.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 26 June 2023
  • Some players could only receive half of the amounts above.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Manager Tuchel is set to leave at the end of the season and the players have simply failed to live up to their billing.
    Ben Church, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • See Dion chat with hockey players post-game in the video below.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
  • What to know about Powerball To score a jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • A lot of these players fashion sort of social activism as part of their brand.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And players have embraced some of their coach’s strategies.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The Tigers also stranded two players on base in the sixth. Ibáñez, who has found his groove in the past few games, finished 3-for-4 with one walk.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
  • And that's our coaching staff, our support staff, great players win you games.
    Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, the player has to throw the disc without moving a pivot leg to advance it.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Fans agree with the game seeing record-breaking player numbers on day one.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2023
  • Some players could afford to have one or two people travel, but have more who want to come.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • First, the club released a statement revealing the player was returning to the first-team fold.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Nine players caught passes, led by freshman Jaylin Hills, who had six for 110 yards and two TDs and also rushed for a score.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Things have been a bit more mixed for networking players such as Cisco.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The older of the two siblings, Emma is also a tennis player.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Stone, Eichel and Alex Pietrangelo are the most notable players Vegas has acquired to get to this moment.
    Mark Anderson, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • And the playlist, filled with the younger generation’s favorites, brought out the dance moves (both good and bad) from several players.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • That allows console and PC players to avoid each other and spare most of the arguments about cross-play.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The crowd seemed to have a tough time deciding for whom to cheer, prodding both players at various points of the often even matchup.
    Howard Fendrich, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The major players of season five return to finish out the series.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But his focus is not just to make the Irish company a mammoth-sized player in the airline market.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
  • In addition, three NFL players will be saluted for their achievements on and off the field during the special.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Johnson brought back Southeastern Conference player of the year Dylan Crews and the rest of the core of his team’s 2022 lineup.
    Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • And the Chiefs are expected to be without their best defensive player in Chris Jones.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023

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