Below you will find example sentences with "basketball player". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Basketball Player in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: basketball
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "basketball player" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a college basketball player hires an, a gifted basketball player as an, professional, college and former stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with basketball team, women basketball, tennis player, basketball team, women basketball and basketball association, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with basketball player
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Among them was Kevin Willis, a former professional basketball player who attended Michigan State. (14 words)
As will the dumbest hockey player, the dumbest baseball player and the dumbest basketball player. (15 words)
Former national basketball player, Kebra Nanton, was elected president of the basketball association on Tuesday night. (16 words)
For redirect main main infoboxcheck Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons. (38 words)
Constand, a former professional basketball player from the Toronto area, met Cosby through her job with the women’s basketball team at Temple University, where the long-married Cosby was a popular alumnus, trustee and basketball fan. (37 words)
He became the first basketball player to win an Oscar for best short animated film in 2018 for Dear Basketball, a five-minute film based on a love letter to the sport he had written in 2015. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Constand, a former professional basketball player from the Toronto area, met Cosby through her job with the women’s basketball team at Temple University, where the long-married Cosby was a popular alumnus, trustee and basketball fan.
The opportunity to play college basketball only happens for four years and ends once a college basketball player hires an agent and enters the more difficult world of professional basketball.
Hosting the event will be Dwayne Jackson, a professional basketball player and former college player who founded Hoops on Mission, a non-profit cultural organization focused on afterschool mentoring programs and basketball from a Christian perspective.
As will the dumbest hockey player, the dumbest baseball player and the dumbest basketball player.
According to the Sutherland Productions the documentary will show how Hedges’ commitment to wheelchair basketball has been supported by his hometown, leading the athlete to become a nationally competitive wheelchair basketball player.
Caputo said he knows Bishop will play basketball for a living and has the makings of a professional basketball player due to his performance in the past couple of games.
He is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He became the first basketball player to win an Oscar for best short animated film in 2018 for Dear Basketball, a five-minute film based on a love letter to the sport he had written in 2015.
People walk beside a giant mural of former NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna at a basketball court in Taguig, south of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Jan.
UVA women’s basketball senior guard Jocelyn Willoughby (East Orange, N.J.) has been named the ACC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.
A gifted basketball player as an Eastern Canadian champion with the Antigonish Scots, Hanley-MacGillivray coached the women’s basketball team at Mount Saint Bernard College (affiliated with StFX University) from 1964 to 1968.
Former national basketball player, Kebra Nanton, was elected president of the basketball association on Tuesday night.
For redirect main main infoboxcheck Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons.
Before that, she’d been a star basketball player at Mayfield High School in Las Cruces and a Gatorade Player of the Year.
The player from North Carolina was Michael Jordan, fresh off the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where Indiana coach Bobby Knight had called him the best basketball player he’d ever seen.
When Jeremy Biggers was growing up in South Dallas in the mid-1990s, you were either a football player or a basketball player.
Glossop also became a competitive wheelchair basketball player, which is how she connected with her husband, Todd Nicholson, a longtime Paralympic sledge hockey player.
Villanova's Brunson Is AP Men's College Player Of The YearThe junior point guard just reached another one by becoming The Associated Press men's college basketball player of the year.
Among them was Kevin Willis, a former professional basketball player who attended Michigan State.
Another potential investor in American professional basketball player Andre Iguodala would bring plenty to the coffers for the Whites.