How to Use athletic in a Sentence

athletic

adjective
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  • She's tall and has an athletic build.
  • They each received an athletic scholarship to the school.
  • His athletic career spanned three decades.
  • Students can get discount tickets for all athletic events.
  • She has great athletic ability.
  • For an athletic fit, Smartwool makes some of the best socks out there.
    — Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There's that unique tension in its sinews, and a sense of athletic poise and balance.
    — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Come in, work out with coaches, get an ice bath, get in the weight room, get with the athletic training staff, all that.
    — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This has been in place since 2018 and school and athletic personnel are trained for this each year.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, the Trojans don’t have an athletic director in the building to hear them.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Big 12 has been the right move for the athletic budget as well as football and several other sports.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The new athletic fields for Harshman will cost around $2.8 million.
    — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s a timeline of the arrests (and near-arrests) that have shadowed the 34-year-old’s athletic career.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
  • Her early efforts to fit in with the other kids, to match their athletic exploits, didn’t go well.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • What to Consider The athletic fit may not be the most comfortable option for all users.
    — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And the school created an athletic department, with plans to field six teams.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • His father, a financier, passed on to him a love of soccer, and the athletic uniforms of the ’80s and ’90s had an impact on Aka’s personal style.
    — Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • As for the new collection, which spans cozy leggings to shiny athletic bras to a form-fitting bodysuit, Biles is on board.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • How much do athletic directors make in the Houston area?
    — Terri Peters, Chron, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Colorado athletic director Rick George said part of the reason the school left the Pac-12 was because of the Big 12′s future with the two flagship networks.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But the on-court chemistry is lacking as younger, more athletic teams often beat them at their own shooting game.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a gym for basketball games and athletic fields for field hockey and soccer.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • His athletic potential and his 2022 tape will be hard to ignore.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This suit comes in different cuts off the rack – blazers can be athletic, slim, or standard.
    — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Charlotte 49ers athletic director Mike Hill named Fearne as the 14th head coach of the men’s basketball team.
    — Langston Wertz Jr., Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This opens up the sport more to girls and women who are not traditionally athletic.
    — Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2023
  • As a result, female athletes must lug their athletic gear around all day.
    — Joanna Hoffman, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Purdy was the only one to follow the rules when Burks, the athletic director, asked the all-star players to wear jeans without holes on picture day.
    — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Each week, The Baltimore Sun will recognize one high school player from a boys sport and one from a girls sport for their athletic achievements.
    — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The singer took a post-breakfast stroll with her boyfriend Callum Turner this morning in Los Angeles, and both the singer and the actor opted for athletic ’fits.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024

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