How do you use Umpires in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Umpires meaning
plural of umpire
Using Umpires
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of umpire
- In the example corpus, umpires often appears in combinations such as: the umpires, umpires and, umpires to.
Context around Umpires
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Umpires
- In this selection, "umpires" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, forces, panel, eleven, joel, named and receive stand out and add context to how "umpires" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4pm the umpires and both and and the umpires sent the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "umpires" sits close to words such as aba, avenge and backups, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with umpires
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But home plate umpires actually just finished their best season on record from a statistical standpoint. (16 words)
But the fixture was called off when the umpires deemed conditions too wet to restart play. (16 words)
A big thanks to our umpires, captains and players for getting out and supporting our pre-season tournament. (18 words)
Faced with the risk the umpires might take the players off the field for bad light, and so deprive England of yet more time to force a win, Stokes brought on off-spinner Moeen Ali and bowled him in tandem with Root. (42 words)
Following a heavy downpour at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday, ground staff had targeted a restart at late-evening restart for the Super Four game, but but more rain forced the umpires to call off play for the day. (41 words)
But he was more irked that the umpires allowed Max Muncy, who had been on first base, to move up to second because, technically, Judge stepped out of the field of play — all because the fence could not hold him. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Respectfully asking questions of umpires at all levels of the games forces umpires to reflect upon their decisions and justify their decision, but often, the bowling side does not accept or will not accept the umpire’s reasoning.
The ICC has also named its Elite panel umpires, Joel Wilson and Michael Gough as umpires for the series.
An elite panel of eleven umpires has been established, and the panel is supplemented by an additional International Panel that includes three umpires named by each Test-playing country.
Like the old system, the new system will be used to grade umpires on accuracy and used to determine which umpires receive postseason assignments.
A big thanks to our umpires, captains and players for getting out and supporting our pre-season tournament.
After Saturday’s racing, there was an opportunity for the sailors to ask the umpires questions, which was a new experience for many of the young competitors.
Although the wet weather relented at 4pm, the umpires and both captains concluded play was not possible and the points were shared.
As the game progresses, umpires are able to communicate with each other and with the pitch clock operator by using a walkie talkie.
At a football match where supporters vent their spleen at umpires and players it may be hard to prove offence during the mayhem of the last quarter in a tight game.
At the core of it, Richmond sees umpires as the 'unsung heroes of the game', because at the end of the day they are what makes a match go ahead.
Bairstow was confused and the umpires sent the decision upstairs, where he was ruled to have been run out.
Boone called the coaching box concerns “tired” and “silly” on Tuesday after the Jays yelled at Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas, which led to a conversation with umpires.
But he was more irked that the umpires allowed Max Muncy, who had been on first base, to move up to second because, technically, Judge stepped out of the field of play — all because the fence could not hold him.
But home plate umpires actually just finished their best season on record from a statistical standpoint.
But the fixture was called off when the umpires deemed conditions too wet to restart play.
But umpires had prohibited players from using any substance without prior approval, even though the ICC accepted he had not been trying to alter the condition of the ball.
Domingo German was ejected after umpires checked his hand for sticky substances when he returned to the mound for the fourth inning of his start against the Blue Jays on May 16.
Faced with the risk the umpires might take the players off the field for bad light, and so deprive England of yet more time to force a win, Stokes brought on off-spinner Moeen Ali and bowled him in tandem with Root.
Female umpires are increasingly concerned they cannot afford to continue in the role unless they get a pay rise.
Following a heavy downpour at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday, ground staff had targeted a restart at late-evening restart for the Super Four game, but but more rain forced the umpires to call off play for the day.
Common combinations with umpires
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the umpires 61×
- umpires and 12×
- umpires to 9×
- umpires are 9×
- on-field umpires 9×
- umpires for 7×
- and umpires 7×
- of umpires 6×
- with umpires 5×
- as umpires 4×