Below you will find example sentences with "rugby championship". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Rugby Championship in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: rugby
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "rugby championship" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 29.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as already unlikely rugby championship, and the rugby championship count towards, world, united and nations stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with rugby world, world championship, championship game, rugby world, rugby union and rugby league, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with rugby championship
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
James Slipper will share Wallabies captaincy duties with Michael Hooper for the Rugby Championship. (14 words)
United Rugby Championship outfit Benetton Rugby have reached a European semi-final after beating Connacht Rugby. (16 words)
Prior to the men’s championship game, the Spartans defeated the Vikings 20–19 to claim the Women’s Rugby Championship. (21 words)
But this was to the detriment of the franchise sides that had their best players unavailable for those two months, which is a problem they have at the start of the season as well, due to the Boks being in Rugby Championship action. (43 words)
Bulls director of rugby, Jake White, has backed flyhalf Chris Smith to fill in the boots of the suspended Johan Goosen when they take on Ospreys in the United Rugby Championship on Saturday at Loftus Versfeld (kick-off 3pm). (39 words)
Effectively the winner of this week’s Test will have one hand on the Rugby Championship trophy but importantly another step for both teams on the road towards the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France in September-October. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
United Rugby Championship outfit Benetton Rugby have reached a European semi-final after beating Connacht Rugby.
Bulls director of rugby Jake White is heading to Cape Town with more experienced troops for his team’s United Rugby Championship battle against the Stormers this weekend.
Effectively the winner of this week’s Test will have one hand on the Rugby Championship trophy but importantly another step for both teams on the road towards the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France in September-October.
Bulls director of rugby, Jake White, has backed flyhalf Chris Smith to fill in the boots of the suspended Johan Goosen when they take on Ospreys in the United Rugby Championship on Saturday at Loftus Versfeld (kick-off 3pm).
Five Rugby World Cup winning forwards and four backs who have lifted the Webb Ellis Trophy have been assembled to help restore their United Rugby Championship (URC) campaign.
The 25-year-old joined Chiefs in April 2022 from United Rugby Championship side, Cardiff Rugby and he has since made three Chiefs appearances.
If the world champion Springboks are to play at the Rugby Championship in Australia then a deadline of October 10 must be set for confirmation, SA’s director of rugby Rassie Erasmus warned.
It would be wise for New Zealand Rugby to give serious consideration to Queenstown’s bold proposal to host all three visiting teams for the Rugby Championship later this year.
New Zealand Rugby CEO Mark Robinson has rubbished reports that claim South Africa are set to leave the Rugby Championship to join the Six Nations.
Since South Africa is such a powerful rugby nation, it would significantly strengthen the northern nations and could possibly see Japan and/or Fiji fill the world champion’s void in the Rugby Championship.
The Argentine Rugby Union has announced six of its national team players have returned positive tests for the virus and had been placed in isolation, casting further doubt on the already unlikely Rugby Championship.
The build-up to the match had been dominated by a war of words over the future course of the southern hemisphere's Super Rugby and Rugby Championship competitions.
An RA source told the Australia's $1 million budget for referees training was the same as World Rugby's, an organisation that makes all the match official appointments for the Six Nations, Rugby Championship and World Cup.
At Test level, Rugby Americas runs the Americas Rugby Championship (ARC), pitting Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, the US, Canada and an Argentina XV against each other in an annual competition.
Prior to the men’s championship game, the Spartans defeated the Vikings 20–19 to claim the Women’s Rugby Championship.
A Nations Championship would see the results from regular competitions like the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship count towards a league, as would 'home and away' cross-hemisphere matches.
Advantage New Zealand, then, in the chase for the Rugby Championship as the All Blacks deliver a reminder of their quality with the World Cup around the corner.
But this was to the detriment of the franchise sides that had their best players unavailable for those two months, which is a problem they have at the start of the season as well, due to the Boks being in Rugby Championship action.
James Slipper will share Wallabies captaincy duties with Michael Hooper for the Rugby Championship.
Kremer will miss Argentina’s Rugby Championship games against the All Blacks, Australia and South Africa and another warm-up game against the Springboks.