FOOTBALL in a Sentence

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For FOOTBALL, below is one of 108 sentences:
Bill has been warming the bench for three football seasons, he hopes that the coach will let him play this year.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOOTBALL
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football
 n.  game played with a ball in which two teams try to kick or carry it into each other's goal
Classic Sentence:
1  And so he had soup and bread, and boiled beef and potatoes and beans, and pie and coffee, and came out with his skin stuffed tight as a football.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
2  He ducked his head low, like a football player.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  Personally I am in agreement with Dr. Armstrong, and football does not come within my horizon.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
4  But there was no play on the football grounds for cricket was coming: and some said that Barnes would be prof and some said it would be Flowers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  I have never seen a game of football.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
6  The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
16  I'll try my best to rout out a good goalkeeper for our football team.
17  We watched the football game on TV.
18  Ed came over last night to watch the video of the football match that I'd recorded.
19  The fourth night of violence in the German city of Rostock was triggered by football supporters.
20  The football field is enclosed by a wall.
21  It's raining, which presumably means that your football match will be cancelled.
22  He left all his money to the town with the stipulation that it should be used to build a new football stadium.
23  Researchers have determined that heading a football can cause permanent injury.
24  The football match is over.
25  Our football coach trains the team.
26  He is our coach in football.
27  Apart from his earnings as a football coach, he also owns and runs a chain of sports shops.
28  Our football coach has worked hard to inculcate a team spirit in/into the players.
29  Bill has been warming the bench for three football seasons, he hopes that the coach will let him play this year.
30  Efforts were made to regulate the conduct of crowds at football games.