Below you will find example sentences with "rugby football". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Rugby Football in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: rugby
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "rugby football" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 26.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a gilbert rugby football as used, among the rugby football and cricket, union, league and ball stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with rugby world, rugby union, rugby league, rugby world, rugby union and rugby league, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with rugby football
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Rugby union football, and its immediate ancestor rugby football, has had a strong influence on several other sports. (18 words)
The damning report on schools rugby released by the Rugby Football Union this week leaves little open to interpretation. (19 words)
Rugby football in Canada originated in the early 1860s, and over time, the game known as Canadian football developed. (19 words)
Top League Cup to be staged before Rugby World CupJapan's top-flight and second-tier rugby teams will compete for the Top League Cup ahead of this year's World Cup, the Japan Rugby Football Union announced Thursday. (39 words)
Sport has been a way that Harry has helped charities and other organisations, including training as a Rugby Development Officer for the Rugby Football Union in 2004 and coaching students in schools to encourage them to learn the sport. (39 words)
And when England were meekly ejected in the quarter-final by France, the Rugby Football Union decided to make an example of their captain, fining Tindall £25,000 and banishing him from the international squad. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Rugby ball seeAlso A Gilbert rugby football as used in rugby union A rugby ball, originally called a quanco, is a diamond shape ball used for easier passing.
Top League Cup to be staged before Rugby World CupJapan's top-flight and second-tier rugby teams will compete for the Top League Cup ahead of this year's World Cup, the Japan Rugby Football Union announced Thursday.
Rugby union football, and its immediate ancestor rugby football, has had a strong influence on several other sports.
Harry is an avid rugby fan and while patron of the Rugby Football Union attended most of England's home matches at Twickenham.
In 1995, the Irish Rugby Football Union commissioned Coulter to write a politically neutral anthem for Ireland’s national rugby union teams, drawn form across the island.
The damning report on schools rugby released by the Rugby Football Union this week leaves little open to interpretation.
Today, the league submitted its affiliation application and fee for 2025 to the PNG Rugby Football League (PNG RFL) Community Rugby League.
Last month’s Rugby Football Union executives took a 25 percent pay cut and yesterday Wales Rugby executives and head coach Wayne Pivac also announced their 25 percent paycut.
The Rugby Football Union confirmed on Tuesday that the Government has approved its submission to a return to 15-a-side contact rugby, with some adaptations.
Conor O’Shea, who resigned as the Italy coach this month, will join the Rugby Football Union as the director of performance rugby next year.
Footage captured by the Japan Rugby Football Union showed players trying to avoid the water by clambering onto benches which lined the tunnel out to the rugby field.
Sport has been a way that Harry has helped charities and other organisations, including training as a Rugby Development Officer for the Rugby Football Union in 2004 and coaching students in schools to encourage them to learn the sport.
Rugby football in Canada originated in the early 1860s, and over time, the game known as Canadian football developed.
And when England were meekly ejected in the quarter-final by France, the Rugby Football Union decided to make an example of their captain, fining Tindall £25,000 and banishing him from the international squad.
Stourbridge presented the proposal to the club's minis and juniors section on Sunday afternoon and now on Friday evening, they will meet with the RFU (Rugby Football Union).
The match at Twickenham Stadium was the first Kate has attended since becoming patron of Rugby Football Union (RFU).
This includes Westgate School and Winchester Rugby Football Club, and pupils from Primary School & Nursery and Ganger Farm Sports Park.
Nestled among the rugby football and cricket pitches is an outdoor classroom that holds 30. Nearby is the rowing club, and New Hall, the theatre that seats 400.
Rugby Football Union insists Borthwick has its “100 per cent full support” despite the last-gasp losses to New Zealand and Australia that have soured the autumn.
The Irish Rugby Football Union says like the French it does not support 20-minute red cards replacing permanent red cards entirely and welcomed the retention of the more severe sanction for the autumn internationals.