basketball - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • play: More people die playing basketball each year than scuba diving!
  • shoot: Does it matter today how well Michael Jordan can shoot a basketball or do a crossover dribble?
  • watch: Assume our better half wants us to build a garden in the yard, but we want to watch basketball.
  • include: We are also including all Basketball with this package for FREE.

Adjective modifier

  • competitive: If you want to start a club and play competitive basketball you will need a bit more.
  • British: This paves the way toward anarchy in the British Basketball.
  • English: There are not many clubs in English basketball who keep the same foreign players for so many years.
  • professional: For the last few years, I have been trying to get myself in position to realize my dream of playing professional basketball.

Modifies a noun

  • hoop: Put a laundry hamper under a kid size basketball hoop.
  • betting: NBA basketball betting can make you a lot of money.
  • court: The first two tennis courts have been replaced by a brightly colored basketball court.
  • player: Basketball players ' heart rates were above 85 % of max for at least 75 % of court time.
  • tournament: USA beat Canada in the first Olympic basketball tournament.
  • coaching: Ian Webb will ran basketball coaching sessions on Monday afternoon.

Noun used with modifier

  • wheelchair: GB women's wheelchair basketball player Anna Jackson is also giving her full backing to the venture.
  • college: Filton can now really gage just how far it has come in the last few months of its first real season in college basketball.
  • coaching: Suitable for qualified and trainee teachers of secondary aged pupils and anyone interested in coaching basketball.
  • youth: For example, the students had to choose the most Darwinian explanation for why a youth basketball team did better this season than last.
  • girl: This was a Canadian girl who made the school's girls basketball team in her first year of high school.
  • summer: In fact, I am participating in a summer basketball league for the first time in years and I can't wait to start.

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