Below you will find example sentences with "playoff game". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Playoff Game in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: playoff
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 30
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "playoff game" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as won a playoff game since 2004, a home playoff game to every, first, win and team stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with game boy, championship game, per game, football playoff, playoff series and first playoff, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with playoff game
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The senior running back had another big playoff game in the championship game. (13 words)
While they have secured a playoff spot already, they are very unlikely to host a playoff game. (17 words)
The Texans are good for stealing away a playoff spot from a team who may actually win a playoff game. (20 words)
By the time the Chargers faced the Jaguars in the wild-card playoff game, Staley’s club enjoyed good NFL health for an 18th game although it wasn’t enough to prevent his team from Chargering a contest it led 27-0 in the second half. (46 words)
The Twins haven’t won a playoff game since 2004 (in fact, they’ve now lost 17 in a row), which makes them an easy pass for the Astros, who have more playoff experience (cheating aside) than I will mention here. (41 words)
The East Palestine High School girls basketball team won a sectional playoff game less than two weeks after the derailment because its opponent, a school from Trumbull County, refused to travel to East Palestine for the game because of safety concerns. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
That, of course, would mean a six-win team hosting a playoff game, as the NFL’s playoff seeding always gives a home playoff game to every division winner.
While they have secured a playoff spot already, they are very unlikely to host a playoff game.
The Trojans were playing in their first home playoff game in 18 years and picked up their first playoff win since that same year.
The Twins haven't won a playoff game since 2004, and even that year, they lost the playoff series to the Yankees 3-1.
The Twins haven’t won a playoff game since 2004 (in fact, they’ve now lost 17 in a row), which makes them an easy pass for the Astros, who have more playoff experience (cheating aside) than I will mention here.
The Texans are good for stealing away a playoff spot from a team who may actually win a playoff game.
First in a league of 32 and then up to 3 or 4 playoff games is far harder than first in a league of 14 and the only “playoff game” is the championship.
Jack Roslovic earned an assist for his first career NHL playoff point in what was his first Stanley Cup playoff game.
Jacksonville's 62 points and 55-point margin are the second most ever in NFL playoff history, and Fred Taylor 's 90-yard run in the first quarter is the longest ever in an NFL playoff game.
The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.
The Jaguars defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31–29 to win their first playoff game in almost eight years and their first road playoff win since 1997.
The Texans would end up beating the Bengals in the wild card playoff round, which meant that they would face the Ravens in the divisional playoff game.
Before that, New England also lost a playoff game in 1976 to the Raiders; the game is unofficially known as "The Ben Dreith Game" due to a controversial penalty by head referee Dreith.
By the time the Chargers faced the Jaguars in the wild-card playoff game, Staley’s club enjoyed good NFL health for an 18th game although it wasn’t enough to prevent his team from Chargering a contest it led 27-0 in the second half.
Looks like this is actually a playoff game, according to the McCamey ISD Facebook page telling folks to tune in for the Lady Badgers game against Cisco High School.
Montana will start with a first-round bye this week and then face the winner of the first-round playoff game between Lafayette and Delaware with an evening game in Washington Grizzly Stadium on December 2nd.
The East Palestine High School girls basketball team won a sectional playoff game less than two weeks after the derailment because its opponent, a school from Trumbull County, refused to travel to East Palestine for the game because of safety concerns.
The senior running back had another big playoff game in the championship game.
Friday’s game in Hythe, as noted, is a playoff game, but the opponent is missing from the schedule on the league website.
Goodell allowed at least 15 million fewer to watch January’s Dolphins-Chiefs playoff game by selling it exclusively to Peacock, a night game in sub-zero conditions that led to amputations for frostbite to a dozen spectators.