How to Use tournament in a Sentence

tournament

noun
  • She's an excellent tennis player who has won many tournaments.
  • The win advances the Sounders to the round of 32 in the take-all-comers tournament.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Cadets last reached the high school state tournament in 2021.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
  • Will this team make the playoffs, and what are the playoffs in the age of the play-in tournament?
    — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The tournament starts on Nov. 21 and the final is set for Dec. 18.
    — Steve Douglas, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022
  • That would be a great matchup of 1 against 16 and show how wide open the tournament would be.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • It's been a strong run for this team so far in this tournament.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
  • All tournaments are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. out of Prairie Creek park.
    — Flip Putthoff, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Reyna was named man of the match and best player of the tournament.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • This was the fourth time in six tries that Piercy held or shared the three-round lead and failed to win the tournament.
    — Fox News, 25 July 2022
  • What’s even worse, Mohr adds, is that Smith didn’t have to break the rules to have a shot at winning the tournament.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Aug. 2023
  • With the tournament taking place on the other side of the earth, game times will be on the later side.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
  • Through their first five games in the tournament, the Aztecs shot an average of 42.48%.
    — Kristie Rieken, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Colts finished with 193 team points to finish first in the tournament.
    — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
  • And just like that, the 2023 US Open tennis tournament is coming to a close.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Morning frost in the Valley of the Sun delayed the start of the tournament for an hour and 45 minutes.
    — Adam Schupak, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The tournament is open to anyone who’s at least 18 years old.
    — Tim Casey, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Andy Murray reached the second round with one of the first upsets of the tournament.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The Valkyries finished 22-2-3 last season but lost to Bardstown in the first round of the state tournament.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2022
  • After winning her first match, she was knocked out of the tournament in the next round.
    — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Among the patrons were a group of deaf people who had come to the bar for a cornhole tournament.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The last five minutes of this might be the best of the tournament - and that includes the end of Gonzaga's thriller against the Bruins.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • People might say, San Diego State might win all these games, but that style doesn’t win in the tournament.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • There also were a couple of plays an inch or two from being talked about for the rest of the tournament.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • Several of the best pool players in the country were part of the tournament.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Raleigh will host the East Regional round in the 2028 tournament.
    — Katie Peralta Soloff, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
  • When Williams won her first Grand Slam tournament, Swiatek wasn’t even born.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Tim Weah, just 22, was part of a new-look American team that is the second-youngest in the tournament.
    — Ronald Blum, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The next race of the tournament is slated to take place Down Under on Sunday, April 2.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
  • With India progressing to the final, three of the four biggest matches of the tournament will be played outside of Pakistan.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

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