How to Use gamer in a Sentence

gamer

noun
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  • For the rest of the year, the gamers find other ways to play.
    — Canwen Xu, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Bartlett isn't a gamer, and thus never played The Last of Us video game.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The idea of putting a racing-sim gamer behind the wheel of a speeding car sounds crazy.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • The majority of the world’s gamers play on mobile phones.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • The average gamer, the ESA says, is 32 years old now—and has been playing video games for 21 years.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • On paper, the concept — gamers learn to race real cars!
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Bad news for gamers: Sega may join the industry in raising its video game prices to $70.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
  • Edwards is explosive and the type of gamer who steps up to meet the biggest moments.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Image: Walmart This isn’t the first toaster made for gamers, though.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Consideration for gamers who may not have a top-of-the-line GPU?
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
  • For some gamers, the decision on whether or not to play has become a moral question.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This is a juicy 39% price drop on a very capable headset that gamers will flip over.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There’s even a seven-layer dip for gamers who know that rolling a seven can mess with your plans.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Discord first surfaced back in 2015 as a simple chat app for gamers.
    — Colin Kirkland, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Here are a few titles that are a blast to play — plus plenty of hardware upgrades gamers will love.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For a moment, Aerith’s fate seems locked into the same one gamers knew so well in 1997—until Cloud breaks free and deflects the blade at the last minute.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The one universal truth among gamers is that all lamented the Mary Jane Watson portions of 2018’s game.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Tabletop gamers have plenty of great options to battle for the fate of the desert planet Arrakis.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Zevin read books about gaming culture and design and watched gamers on YouTube and the livestreaming service Twitch.
    — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • Play longer with our picks for the best gaming tablets, gifts for gamers, and gaming chairs, according to Reddit.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But it’s been a big thing for a while, with gamers streaming playthroughs of the various iterations.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Xbox gamers can buy them in black for a comparable $183 at Amazon.
    — Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This compact and lightweight gaming console is perfect for gamers on the go.
    — Margaret Drake, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But while the two often go hand-in-hand, there’s a problem for headphone-wearing gamers: crunching sounds.
    — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • For playing video games with fellow gamers, there’s Discord.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And one of the very important shifts is the tendency to get much more casual games rather than [ones for] hardcore gamers.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The new trading apps, designed as visual candy, are meant to give you the rush that gamers get (and also the high that people seek out from slot machines).
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This is especially true for gamers, who may spend long periods of time in their chairs.
    — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Other countries with a large number of video gamers also have far fewer school shootings than the U.S.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Scroll back up to find even more insights about how The Legend of Zelda has captivated gamers for decades.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 May 2023

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