Benching is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Benching in a sentence
Related words
Benching meaning
An instance of a person being removed temporarily from an active role in a group or team activity.
Using Benching
- The main meaning on this page is: An instance of a person being removed temporarily from an active role in a group or team activity.
- In the example corpus, benching often appears in combinations such as: the benching, benching of, benching him.
Context around Benching
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Benching
- In this selection, "benching" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, saleh, suggested, future, wilson, claypool and bryce stand out and add context to how "benching" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and that benching rodgers with and barcelona despite benching rodrigo. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "benching" sits close to words such as aarhus, abdu and abetted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with benching
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Football news - Valencia shock Barcelona despite benching Rodrigo. (8 words)
Is benching Bryce Young the right decision by Panthers? (9 words)
The timing of Mantha’s benching is a little curious. (10 words)
The coaches and Douglas, stunned at the suggestion, talked him out of it and convinced Johnson to stay the course and that benching Rodgers, with his pedigree, four games into the season would not sit well with the locker room. (40 words)
The Tide survived the September doldrums, a brief upheaval at quarterback with the one-game benching of Jalen Milroe, and a perceived lack of true star power across the roster — at least when compared to previous Alabama teams. (38 words)
The first of our sports-named dating trends that could be on our screens soon enough, is benching – i.e. when you have a back-up person, in addition to the person you’re actually dating. (36 words)
Is benching Bryce Young the right decision by Panthers? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
After Wilson went through a sophomore slump, with head coach Robert Saleh benching Wilson for Mike White, the Jets aggressively pursued Rodgers.
At the end of the episode, it is Roy who makes a stop at Ted’s house and apologizes for the way he spoke when the coach suggested benching him.
Benching Claypool in hopes of sparking a better effort is the Bears’ last move to salvage this before moving on altogether.
Despite the benching, it looked like the Sox were going to come away with a victory – Lance Lynn even had a no-hitter through six.
He didn’t do it to Johnson, either, who was subject to calls for benching, or for Claypool.
However, in the Saint Lucia and wider Caribbean context: back-benching on the government’s parliamentary frontline.
The first of our sports-named dating trends that could be on our screens soon enough, is benching – i.e. when you have a back-up person, in addition to the person you’re actually dating.
The rookie also doesn't want to deal with any sob stories over his possible future benching.
The Tide survived the September doldrums, a brief upheaval at quarterback with the one-game benching of Jalen Milroe, and a perceived lack of true star power across the roster — at least when compared to previous Alabama teams.
The timing of Mantha’s benching is a little curious.
Verdugo’s second benching of 2023 was a rather public affair and caused a drama-filled day at the park on Aug. 5 against the Toronto Blue Jays.
He will be competing in Nottingham Strong Open this summer which consists of squats, benching and deadlifting and will be entering into Southport's 2024.
Is benching Bryce Young the right decision by Panthers?
Jayson Tatum’s surprising benching in Team USA’s Olympics-opening win over Serbia last week continues to be a sore subject for several current and former NBA players.
Jones’s run as a starter ended with Monday’s benching and his $23 million injury guarantee for 2025 makes it likely that he’s played his final snap for the franchise.
Last week, he merely said “” when asked if he gave any consideration to benching him.
That era took a turn with last week’s benching of Bryce Young and it gives Dalton a chance to face off with his first NFL team.
The coaches and Douglas, stunned at the suggestion, talked him out of it and convinced Johnson to stay the course and that benching Rodgers, with his pedigree, four games into the season would not sit well with the locker room.
While it was ultimately a clean sheet for Ravas, it was far from the resounding response to the benching Porter may have been looking for.
Football news - Valencia shock Barcelona despite benching Rodrigo.
Common combinations with benching
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the benching 5×
- benching of 5×
- benching him 4×
- is benching 2×
- benching and 2×
- benching in 2×
- that benching 2×
- butler benching 2×
- after benching 2×