How to Use track meet in a Sentence

track meet

noun
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  • The late going turned into a track meet to chew the clock.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Going to these track meets and meeting up with friends is the best.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Hand was last with Dowdell on Friday night at a track meet in Troy, Ala.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The sophomore went 6-7 to win the high jump at the Marion County track meet.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
  • The Saints did, turning the rest of the game into a track meet, outscoring Southwood 43-8 on fast-break points.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Her shorter hurdle race comes early in the meet while the 4x400 relay is the last event in a track meet.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • And there is no denying the Huskies (33-3) have won everything from rock fights to track meets.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Comets entered a track meet in the seven-goal third period.
    — Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Anyway, driving a Prius in Sport mode is like going to a track meet in nurse’s clogs.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Now, Minnesota will never be a team that gets up and down at a high clip – the big, lengthy Wolves won’t thrive in a track meet.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2024
  • On the day before the 2023 indoor track meet, Katie planned a three-mile training run as her final race prep.
    — Josh Bean, al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Videos of high school track meets take up the first slots on Philbin’s YouTube channel, which now has more than 6,000 followers.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The two met at a high school track meet, when Anna presented Cooper with a medal from an event.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • The focus on sports could range from indoor track meets to team sports tournaments.
    — Geoffrey C. Arnold, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In a coed four-by-four 400-meter relay at a high school track meet, Savy was the anchor for her team and Parker the anchor for his.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The 10 lords a-leaping interrupt his daughter’s track meet.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The last five minutes of the half were a track meet as Clingan, Samson Johnson and Soriano all remained on the bench with two fouls each.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Two months before the Mexico City Games opened, more than 130 Olympians from four countries descended on the city for a track meet.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • Henson left early to drive an hour out of town to watch his grandson, a pole-vaulter at Meadow, compete in a regional track meet.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The starter’s pistol at her daughter’s track meet was suddenly ominous.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Last time Portland played North Carolina, the Courage were happy to participate in a track meet, which ended in a 3-3 draw.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Alabama’s state track meet brought in $3.4 million in economic impact to Gulf Shores last year.
    — John Sharp, al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Their report stated that at the track meet held in Moscow, Motherland Russia came in second.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Because everyone gets a solo (or two), everyone gets a chance to show out, adding more runs than a track meet, to the whooping delight of the audience.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Recently, a nine-year-old in Canada was heckled at a track meet by a man who insisted her parent’s prove that she was born female.
    — Spenser Mestel, Men's Health, 29 June 2023
  • Dowdell also recently won medals at a high school track meet at Troy University.
    — Jeff Amy and Kim Chandler, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Vernor’s mother, Kim, competes in the hammer throw, discus, weight throw and shot put in masters track meets and has won national titles.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 13 May 2023
  • The only other team among the top six in both categories is Miami, the Dolphins possessing an offense that is like a track meet crossed with a circus.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Lyndell Farmer has been pole vaulting for 60-plus years at track meets and other events, including the past 12 years along a downtown Mobile street surrounded by bars and night clubs.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 15 July 2023

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