Below you will find example sentences with "basketball league". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Basketball League in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: basketball
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 5 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "basketball league" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 27.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a basketball league was later, athletic league basketball league, national, professional and club stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with premier league, champions league, basketball team, basketball team, women basketball and basketball association, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with basketball league
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
In 1969, the National Basketball Association was a relatively young professional basketball league fighting to establish itself. (17 words)
In Deep South Basketball League play, Stirling fell 55-36 to Immanuel Christian in senior varsity girls competition. (18 words)
Councillor-at-Large Robert Haas, III asked if the grant would help fund the Police Athletic League basketball league. (19 words)
The four-star transfer wide receiver from Michigan State spent much of his summer playing in the King of Kings basketball league against players like Jimmy and Buddy Boeheim, Dajuan Coleman and several other former professional basketball players. (38 words)
The secretary of the kwara falcons Mr Bello Azeez has called on multinational companies to partner with the state’s basketball team in their quest to achieve greater success in this year’s kwese premier basketball league. (37 words)
British Basketball League Trophy winners Caledonia Gladiators have released CGI images of how their new multi-million-pound stadium will look - exactly one month before the first game in the club's new home in East Kilbride. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Athletics Montserrat has competed in every Commonwealth Games since 1994. citation Basketball Basketball is growing in popularity in Montserrat with Montserrat now setting up their own basketball league.
The club played in the National Basketball League (NBL) from 1946 until its merger in 1949 with the Basketball Association of America to become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
A basketball league was later created in 1902, when Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Princeton formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League ; they were later joined by Penn and Dartmouth.
Although there had been earlier attempts at professional basketball leagues, including the American Basketball League and the NBL, the BAA was the first league to attempt to play primarily in large arenas in major cities.
Emirates has sponsored the Lebanese Basketball League and top division teams through its support of the Beirut Basketball Club and Al Hikma BC (Club Sagesse) as an official jersey sponsor.
In 1969, the National Basketball Association was a relatively young professional basketball league fighting to establish itself.
Villanova Coach Jay Wright, whose team has won two of the last four national men’s basketball titles, said UConn’s return would make the Big East a more “authentic” basketball league.
The four-star transfer wide receiver from Michigan State spent much of his summer playing in the King of Kings basketball league against players like Jimmy and Buddy Boeheim, Dajuan Coleman and several other former professional basketball players.
The Makati men’s basketball team has forged a partnership with Super Crunch in its ongoing campaign in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League Datu Cup.
The secretary of the kwara falcons Mr Bello Azeez has called on multinational companies to partner with the state’s basketball team in their quest to achieve greater success in this year’s kwese premier basketball league.
Basketball team Brighton Bears were in the British Basketball League before dropping out at the end of the 2005/06 season.
Three seasons later, in 1949, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Councillor-at-Large Robert Haas, III asked if the grant would help fund the Police Athletic League basketball league.
According to an article by Nick Kovacevich in Forbes, the first North American professional sports league to take the plunge in allowing CBD use by its players was the BIG3 basketball league.
British Basketball League Trophy winners Caledonia Gladiators have released CGI images of how their new multi-million-pound stadium will look - exactly one month before the first game in the club's new home in East Kilbride.
In Deep South Basketball League play, Stirling fell 55-36 to Immanuel Christian in senior varsity girls competition.
It allows greatness to have its moment and it showcases the most impressive talent from the most powerful basketball league in the world.
It was a night of high drama at the JSC Sports Complex in the Cool and Smooth Joma Caribbean-sponsored Business Basketball League on Thursday evening.
Some of the younger kids playing hoops at the Queen’s and King’s of the Court basketball league.
While Australia does not have as many people as Canada it is also spread out geographically and that has Davis wondering about the ability of Canada to support a women’s professional basketball league.