How to Use bobsled in a Sentence

bobsled

noun
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  • He drove a bobsled in the winter Olympics.
  • Much like bobsled, the most important part of the event is at the start.
    — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 4 Dec. 2017
  • None have come in the sliding sports of bobsled, luge or skeleton.
    — JerÉ Longman and Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The Reno/Tahoe area would have to construct bobsled and luge runs, among other pieces.
    — Ed Fletcher, sacbee, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The mile-long bobsled run, meanwhile, is about a 15-minute drive from the village, which gives you time to build up your courage.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The Jamaicans finished the race by carrying the bobsled over their heads.
    — Justin Kirkland, Esquire, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Which begs the question of how, exactly, one builds a bobsled.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Russia is set to hold the world championships in bobsled and skeleton in Sochi in two months.
    — Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
  • So many things are bound to be redundant, like the look of bobsled after bobsled hurtling down the same track.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • McGuffie, who played football at Rice, will compete in the four-man bobsled later this week.
    — Reid Laymance, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • In the first phase of the project, the USOC is looking only for athletes for cycling, rugby and the sliding sports of bobsled and skeleton.
    — Eddie Pells, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
  • While bobsled is a new sport for Adigun, competing at the highest ranks is not.
    — Tish Hamilton, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Never ridden a bobsled, slid on a skeleton or kicked a rugby ball?
    — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • As for bobsled, he hasn’t even stepped to the start line, but early returns are encouraging.
    — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Now, the fearless bobsled driver prepares for his Olympic moment with his hometown in mind.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • That count is higher now with shocking bobsled, ice dance, and hockey upsets.
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Elana Meyers Taylor, now a three-time medalist in bobsled, has held down a job between training stints.
    — Barry Svrluga, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • For a bobsled, one tiny pockmark can cause a sled to bounce, perpetuating the problem.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Skeleton is the superior sport of the Winter Olympics, yet many people forget about it or compare it to the luge or bobsled.
    — Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Also on tap: men's slalom, halfpipe and women's bobsled.
    — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • When the 2018 Winter Olympics come to an end this weekend, when the last bobsled has crossed the finish line, politics will have one more chance to elbow into the picture.
    — David Wharton, latimes.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Ngozi Onwumere, who sprinted for the University of Houston, helps run the bobsled brakes.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The cars are usually shaped like bobsleds and run down sloped hills, gravity creating speeds up to 25 mph.
    — Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • Whoosh forward in the bobsled of your imagination to the 2038 Winter Olympics, and wonder: Will this scene from last Wednesday even be viable?
    — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Bobsled True bobsleds can travel as fast as 90 mph on curved tracks, but no such course exists in Indiana.
    — Nate Chute, Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2018
  • On the bobsled, three amateurs are paired with a professional pilot, while skeleton novices get strapped to their own sled and sent down the hill solo.
    — John Patrick Pullen, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2012
  • The women will be the first athletes (male or female) to represent Nigeria in any sport in the Winter Olympics and the first to compete in bobsled from the entire continent of Africa.
    — Tish Hamilton, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The skeleton athlete from Prairie du Chien was traveling the world to compete in a thrilling sport, racing down bobsled tracks headfirst on a sled at speeds reaching 80 mph.
    — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
  • For Winter Games rookies, the differences between the sledding events – luge, bobsled (or bobsleigh) and skeleton – can get blurry, just like a luger shooting past at 90 miles an hour.
    — Flora Carr, Time, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The bobsleds at the Pyeongchang Games echo a similar design, with familiar lines, blades, height and weight making each sled seemingly indistinguishable from the other, at least to the untrained eye.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2018

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