NOUN
- a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion
How To Use World Cup In A Sentence
- Of course there's nothing wrong with necking a few beers and getting caught up in the buzz of the World Cup.
- Still, we managed to beat Italy in the first of a sporting double-header in which our footballers will shortly travel to Italy for a World Cup qualifier.
- During that interminable slo-mo edit of England's World Cup qualification the river of molten sentimentality was so ickily glutinous you'd have thought we'd already won the bloody thing. Frederick william jackson
- Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
- The second was rather less complimentary and said he was more non-League than World Cup winner.
- But the possible bolters are there, too: two 18-year-olds in Sam Harrison and Laura Trott, both clearly being fast-tracked towards London with a view to riding in the omnium, and a more outside bet in the 20‑year‑old Welshwoman Dani King, who has a chance of a place in the women's team pursuit just a month after her first appearance at a World Cup. Team GB's young pretenders make a bolt for London 2012 Olympic places
- All wrongs in the world can be fixed by an afternoon snooze - I went to sleep and woke up thinking that England had been knocked out of the world cup by Wales in the semi final.
- This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
- Finally, I mentioned earlier the triumphant car hooters being used to celebrate the England win in the World Cup tournament.
- It's more about continuing improvement, but obviously the end goal has to be to win the World Cup - without making any tub-thumping promises.
