How to Use tourney in a Sentence

tourney

noun
  • Hope to see these two again in the state tourney in March.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Take a look at some of the best offers as the tourney comes to an end.
    Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Vrana has one goal in the tourney; Hronek has no points.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2022
  • By the time the tourney started, the team had narrowed it down.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The Seminoles are one of three teams from the Sunshine State in the tourney.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • He was hurt in practice on March 16 and didn’t play in the tourney.
    Jim Vertuno, ajc, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Plans call for the tourney to remain in that slot on the tour schedule.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The tourney’s top two teams hit the hardwood in Houston.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Sherman Oaks LL won the state tourney for 11-year-olds.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • From the defending champs to new challengers, the tourney has it all.
    Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • There was hope and an assumption the tourney might get pushed back a year.
    Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Along with a berth in the U.S. Open main draw, the title entitled to a spot in this tourney as well.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Things went south pretty much from the opening faceoff in the second game of the tourney for the Stars.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Beechwood, in the state tourney for the third-straight season, ended with a 29-7 record.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
  • There were 9 Houston-area teams and five Lubbock-area teams in the tourney.
    Mike Waters, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • But the Coyotes had never won a tourney game before the last few days.
    Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Lovan was named the most valuable player of the tourney.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The Longhorns’ last appearance in the tourney’s second weekend was the Elite Eight in 2008.
    Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • To see a full list of local women’s hoopers who are (or were) in the tourney, click here.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • As Aemma screams, the camera whizzes back and forth between her writhing body and the clashing spears of the tourney.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Mewis’s only touch in the World Cup tourney was her penalty-kick laser.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • State was on probation in 1973 and barred from playing in the NCAA tourney).
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Roos women’s squad opens the tourney on Friday as the No. 8 seed against Omaha.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But perhaps no one thought the Musketeers would be back in the tourney this soon, let alone with such a high seed.
    Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And even if UConn wants to be treated as a true blue blood, its last tourney win before this year came in 2016.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Spurs’ magic number to clinch a spot in the tourney as at least the 10th seed — and for the Lakers to be eliminated — is four.
    Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The comeback was tied for the fifth-largest comeback in tourney history.
    Michael Marot, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Both the boys and girls Juneau-Douglas squads took care of business in the opening round of the tourney with dominant wins.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
  • This game is going to light up fighting game tourneys for years.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Would Princeton making an even deeper tourney run ease some of the pain?
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023

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