How to Use football in a Sentence

football

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  • He played a lot of football in high school and college.
  • The ship is nearly the length of three football fields.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • And that leaves the Pac-12 with one Division I football choice in this part of the world.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • Steeves-Little signed to play football at the school last week.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • But then on the first day of school, seniors gathered on the football field to watch the sunrise.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • The protests once again highlighted the power of the fans in German football.
    — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • His body had recovered, and Smith now had time for the life that football had stolen from him.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • On Friday night, the high school football game is an island of light in a sea of darkness.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • But all four of those men spent well over half their football careers in other cities.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This was a football game, not a call to put out a fire or to investigate a homicide.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The iconic norteño band was formed in the Bay Area back in 1968 and has been an avid supporter of the NorCal football team ever since.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The ship — about 157 feet wide and longer than three football fields, according to MarineTraffic.com — stayed in Baltimore for three days.
    — Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The surest sign a college football program is in trouble is when the alumni grow restless.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Law enforcement found an adult victim with gunshot wounds at the entrance to the football field.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The Heisman ballot says to vote for the best collegiate football player.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Chloe is determined to find her, and teams up with Shara's football player boyfriend and Shara's neighbor.
    — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The fire grew explosively, engulfing up to 150 football fields of land every minute in the first few days.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
  • UConn didn’t get an invite from the ACC and is now playing as a football independent.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, a number of Swifties were watching at home and learning about football.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • An acre-foot of water is roughly the size of an American football field covered 1 foot deep.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
  • John was making the final football decisions and no doubt had a big hand in hiring and firing.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Still, any press is good press, and Swift knows that football games get more eyeballs than anything else on television.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • And though he may no longer be suited up in a NFL uniform looking to throw a touchdown pass, there remains some football in his golf swing.
    — John Leuzzi, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2023
  • University of Louisville football coach Jeff Brohm will be the guest speaker at Monday’s event.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Pop-Tarts’ first ‘edible mascot’ made waves last week at a college football bowl game.
    — Megan Graham, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Two months after that, her husband, football player Michael Schofield, received a call to join the Detroit Lions.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Taylor Swift is seemingly a fan of Travis Kelce’s football prowess.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The final pieces of Jonathan Smith's Michigan State football coaching staff are starting to come together.
    — Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
  • All the while, Ray Lews has been encouraging him to keep pursuing his pro football career.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
  • Jason Kelce is taking in some family time at the beach before football season starts up again.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023

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