How to Use benchwarmer in a Sentence

benchwarmer

noun
Definition of benchwarmernext
  • I played a little, but mostly I was a benchwarmer.
  • The forecast is even worse for benchwarmers hoping to make the leap.
    — Dan Hanner & Luke Winn, SI.com, 12 Oct. 2016
  • The small-market Royals can ill-afford to have $18 million wrapped up in a benchwarmer, this year or the next two seasons.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2017
  • When the game finally ends with a running clock and every Bobcats benchwarmer on the field, the final score is 57-0.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2019
  • From Week 1 of last season to Week 1 of this season, Snell has transformed from benchwarmer to bulldozer.
    — Joe Mussatto, ajc, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Rating: 5/10 Next up are the trials and tribulations of serial benchwarmer Oumar Niasse.
    — SI.com, 15 June 2019
  • The Premier League is chockablock of some of the finest talents in world football...but there are also a whole host of benchwarmers, has-beens, never-weres and outcasts who have long been forgotten amid all the excitement.
    — SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • If a single player tests positive, that player — whether an All-Star or a benchwarmer — would be isolated and quarantined.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
  • The league’s action places the spotlight on vaccine holdouts among the players, and could create a quandary for coaches: A second-rank player or benchwarmer who refuses the shot can be cut for chump change, but starters may be a different story.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Preston started a single basketball game in high school after mostly being a benchwarmer.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Instead, a kid talented enough to earn a scholarship to Colorado, decided to put that immense talent on hold, someone used to playing starter’s minutes willingly choosing a benchwarmer’s fate.
    — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 4 Mar. 2017
  • This may be germane to the vast majority of participants in intercollegiate sports, especially participants in small-money athletics and benchwarmers in the big-money sports.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Brooks was a freshman benchwarmer when the Wildcats steamrolled his Wolverines to win the 2018 national championship in this building, and that might as well have been a lifetime ago.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022

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