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basketball

[ UK /bˈɑːskɪtbˌɔːl/ ]
[ US /ˈbæskətˌbɔɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an inflated ball used in playing basketball
  2. a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop

How To Use basketball In A Sentence

  • My girlfriend wants me to go to the basketball court.
  • It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
  • PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
  • The success of women's sport, and particularly intercollegiate basketball, brings with it other issues stemming from the corrupting effects of success and money.
  • It was like a basketball game at one stage with people coming on and off. Times, Sunday Times
  • In another episode, Sanger directed an actor whose son is another former Montclair Prep basketball player.
  • In team sports such as wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball, your classification gives you points. The Sun
  • November 28th, 2009 5: 23 pm ET its rare to see a family of muslims who like basketball so much. tammy Pres. Obama cheers on brother-in-law at basketball game
  • Football was number one but he had also done athletics, basketball, volleyball and cricket.
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