How to Use flag football in a Sentence

flag football

noun
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  • Some schools will play girls flag football in the spring as a club sport.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Squash and flag football will be part of the Olympic sports list in four years’ time.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Aug. 2024
  • At the end of the day, most of the office shows up by the river for a game of flag football.
    — Sean Thomas, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2018
  • If your friends want to get active, then a game of flag football is the way to go.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 2 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • For the Abaco Army flag football team, the life lessons learned off the field will serve the youngsters for a lifetime.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The fields are home to a new summer camp: Blue Devil flag football.
    — Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The two were friends for about five years and played flag football together.
    — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Sara played two sports for the Broncos, bowling and flag football.
    — Mike May, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Eight kids only a few years old lined up for each flag football team.
    — Nick Kelly, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Duce played for the Arizona Dolphins, a top flag football team.
    — Richard Obert, azcentral, 5 June 2019
  • In one evening of flag football, fortunes were reversed and funds were raised.
    — Rachel K. Hindery, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • In his first game of flag football as a 6-year-old, Demond scored six touchdowns.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Being able to score in the red zone is hugely important in flag football, Ramirez said, but the Indians failed to score in the red zone three times.
    — Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Before the season began, Mountain View flag football coach Tim Test faced a daunting task.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024

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