How to Use flag football in a Sentence

flag football

noun
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  • If your friends want to get active, then a game of flag football is the way to go.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Squash and flag football will be part of the Olympic sports list in four years’ time.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Mooresville’s only state championship in sport was in unified flag football last year.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Holland, age 6, played catch on a football field shortly after one of his flag football games.
    — oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2020
  • In its first season, girls flag football had two divisions, each with a 16-team bracket.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 June 2024
  • Officers learned that two men had been yelling at the coaching staff about one of their son’s playing time during a flag football game.
    — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Some of the people fighting to reopen tackle football have questioned whether flag football is safer than tackle.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Five more new sports will be added to the Olympic program in LA – flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Allowed to return: C team football; flag football; debate, drama and forensics; bowling; and gymnastics.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Dimond and South picked up victories during the second week of flag football action in the Cook Inlet Conference.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The final day of the flag football season is Thursday, and pairings for next week’s Cook Inlet Conference tournament are at stake.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Some schools will play girls flag football in the spring as a club sport.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • One issue would be what part of the school year to hold flag football.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • No, not that big game – the big flag football game also known as the Pro Bowl!
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Girls flag football club teams have been playing in the spring.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Hall has a son who plays flag football at the youth level.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2021
  • This is his first year as head coach of the Spartans flag football team.
    — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The Dimond flag football team blew the doors off of Bartlett last Tuesday in a 40-0 shutout.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And flag football was recently added to the Olympics for 2028.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Jones was unblocked but would not have made the stop if this had been flag football.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Of the five, only squash and flag football have never been a part of the Olympics before.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This year, 44 San Diego-area teams will field girls flag football teams.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Long Beach Poly will have the best girls’ flag football team in the Southern Section.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The fields are home to a new summer camp: Blue Devil flag football.
    — Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s a report on the girls’ flag football league sponsored by the Rams and Chargers.
    — Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Eight kids only a few years old lined up for each flag football team.
    — Nick Kelly, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The Pro Bowl Games, meanwhile, has included a flag football game for the past two years.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Her older brothers, twins in the fifth grade, played flag football for their school last fall.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • This will also be the first season flag football will be played as a sanctioned sport by the AIA.
    — Joshua Edler Davis, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Get out the ol' pigskin and divide the crew up into teams for an old-fashioned game of touch or flag football.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022

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