athlete

Example Sentences

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If you run across a professional athlete, pose for a photo standing right next to him, beta-smiling in admiration, and post it on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

But it’s gotten to the point where playing certain college sports can be as lucrative – if not more so – than being a professional athlete.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Former British athlete Lynsey Sharp will no doubt have a very different perspective.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

"The investigations were launched due to the immense media storm around the case, solely because of the involvement of the defendant, who is a world-renowned athlete," Neymar's legal team said.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

An athlete boasts that in Rhodes he performed the most astonishing jump and claims he can produce eyewitnesses to testify to it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton