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basketball

noun as in team sport

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Example Sentences

He was very even-keeled, goofy and liked to play basketball.

Soccer in the rest of the world is what we know as basketball.

It was around noon that Brinsley chucked the phone behind a radiator at the basketball stadium and went off the grid.

I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.

The basketball game was the final engagement on a seriously busy day for the young royals.

From what I was told he was a stevedore and had once been a professional basketball player.

The closed-bottom basket used in the game of basketball is so high that it is difficult to remove the ball after a goal is made.

Many members were not interested in basketball, except to look on.

A basketball is passed quickly around the circle, moving in one direction only.

A basketball is thrown from one player to another, across the circle, or may be passed to the nearest neighbor.

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