How to Use showdown in a Sentence

showdown

noun

• Here are the game details ahead of the Big 12 showdown...
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024
• Jared Goff will make the throws late to set up the showdown in Green Bay.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2023
• The Tigers will have their best pitcher on the mound for the first showdown with Ohtani.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
• The 2024 World Series showdown could be epic and set records — in stores and in the stands.
  — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• The showdown with Spain in the second match may decide who tops the group. ...
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
• As big of a fight as the heavyweight showdown is, the favorite for Fight of the Night comes in the co-main event.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2022
• The lion’s share were in the ten-plus-minute finale showdown.
  — Simon Thompson, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Vols claimed the remaining five No. 1 votes on the eve of their showdown with the Bulldogs.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• The real showdown will be in the girls’ distance races.
  — cleveland, 18 May 2022
• In the latter two movies, the showdown comes in the pressroom itself.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
• Friday's showdown with the Magic (13-47) is a matchup between the worst and third -worst teams in the NBA.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 21 Feb. 2022
• All of this seems to be setting up for a showdown in a future film.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 27 Apr. 2022
• Hero says: Both teams had a week off to prepare for this huge Pac-12 showdown.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2022
• The showdown comes at a time of labor unrest across the nation.
  — Margot Rooseveltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• The stakes in their showdown depend on the outcomes of two other races.
  — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• The 1972 showdown was eight games: four in Canada, four in Moscow.
  — Ken Dryden, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2025
• Now there are enough EVs to warrant their own showdown.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
• The Pirates set up a league showdown with Dominguez on Friday night.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• There was a better chance the rat would hype this Cubs-Brewers showdown.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
• Still, the stage for the showdowns has nearly been set, the major players revealed.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• It’s been something of a theme over the first three games of this midseason AL West showdown.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 July 2023
• This showdown is worthy of a standalone window – just not the first of the season.
  — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 6 May 2025
• The showdown between the two teams is set for Feb. 9 at the Superdome in New Orleans.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
• The board voted in May to retain Mr. Sanchez, but the showdown left wounds in the community.
  — John Leland John Leland, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• But this is still a movie in which the showdown between good and evil turns on the vengeance taken by a very angry goat.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Dec. 2021
• Both sides have spent the past two decades preparing for their next showdown.
  — Josef Federman, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
• In relation to last year’s figures, the showdown just barely missed the mark by 8%.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
• As Shiv storms out of the apartment with her brothers in tow, both Mattson and the Roys prepare for a showdown.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
• That said, the fall from the second story during her showdown with Tyler most likely left her severely injured.
  — Jane Lacroix, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Each bring unique dynamics and fanbases to the final showdown.
  — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025