TENNIS in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of TENNIS
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tennis
 n.  a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  She was roused from her musings by the approach of her cousin Jack Stepney who, at Gwen Van Osburgh's side, was returning across the garden from the tennis court.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, anything but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  She wasn't altogether pleased, the week after, when Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  There were three courts: one belonging to Harry Haydock, one to the cottages at the lake, and one, a rough field on the outskirts, laid out by a defunct tennis association.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Suddenly he was going about proposing the reorganization of the tennis association, and writing names in a fifteen-cent note-book bought for the purpose at Dyer's.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  No one referred to their tennis tournament.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  We played tennis, read, and took long walks together.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
8  She had met him at a Bazaar; and at a tennis party.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  At the tennis party she had felt this, and at the Bazaar.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
10  The white canvas on his tennis shoes was bloodstained and sticky.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  And he looked down at his blood-stained tennis shoes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  He had given her a cup of tea at a tennis party; handed her, once, a racquet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
13  As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
14  You see they're tennis shoes and I'm sort of helpless without them.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  After dinner they sat on the terrace, then they proceeded to play lawn tennis.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  It afforded her the opportunity to improve her tennis skills.
17  His spare-time activities include cooking, tennis and windsurfing.
18  The club provides a wide variety of activities including tennis, swimming and squash.
19  Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground - the whole nine yards.
20  I used to partner him in tennis matches.
21  I need a doubles partner for the table tennis tournament.
22  These tennis shoes are designed for comfort and performance.
23  He loves to play table tennis.
24  You can go boating or play tennis.
25  My suggestion that we all play tennis sank like a stone.
26  A tennis player needs to have very quick reflexes.
27  A tennis player shows good anticipation by moving quickly into position.
28  She makes a good tennis player.
29  Britain's number-one tennis player gave a disappointingly lacklustre performance.
30  He's past his peak as a tennis player.