How to Use athletic in a Sentence

athletic

adjective
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  • She's tall and has an athletic build.
  • They each received an athletic scholarship to the school.
  • His athletic career spanned three decades.
  • Students can get discount tickets for all athletic events.
  • She has great athletic ability.
  • For an athletic fit, Smartwool makes some of the best socks out there.
    — Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • For his size, athletic, ball skills, knows how to use his hands.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • While Grant plays the fastest man alive on The Flash, his wife is quite athletic in real life.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • There's that unique tension in its sinews, and a sense of athletic poise and balance.
    — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Come in, work out with coaches, get an ice bath, get in the weight room, get with the athletic training staff, all that.
    — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This has been in place since 2018 and school and athletic personnel are trained for this each year.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This Longhorns team is also athletic enough to get out on the wings and thwart the Jayhawks’ perimeter threat.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, the Trojans don’t have an athletic director in the building to hear them.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The athletic 21-year old has the tools to be a useful player in the open floor and on defense, but those skills haven’t surfaced yet.
    — Tony East, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But, in the course of the past year and a half, the Mavericks have gathered a group of young, athletic players, through the draft, free agency, and trades.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
  • The Big 12 has been the right move for the athletic budget as well as football and several other sports.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The new athletic fields for Harshman will cost around $2.8 million.
    — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Long and Conner are both athletic in the Gesicki mold rather than physical in the Smythe mold, such as Carter.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Here’s a timeline of the arrests (and near-arrests) that have shadowed the 34-year-old’s athletic career.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
  • Her early efforts to fit in with the other kids, to match their athletic exploits, didn’t go well.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Trump has brought the name, image and likeness (NIL) scheme from the college athletic arenas to the campaign trail.
    — Nolan Finley, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Miller was hired as the head football coach and athletic director in 2021.
    — ABC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Bledsoe is now out of the league, long diminished from his athletic prime.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Since 2017, when he was drafted, Tatum has been paired with Brown, an athletic marvel.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • Still, the search is on to fill what Heird called one of the most important positions in the athletic department.
    — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Crawfordsville athletic director Bryce Barton said the throwback game was idea that had been in the works for a while.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Feb. 2023
  • What to Consider The athletic fit may not be the most comfortable option for all users.
    — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And the school created an athletic department, with plans to field six teams.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • That came as news, however, to Joel Williams, Atlantis’ athletic director and head football coach.
    — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Known as the arms race, athletic departments are spending an exorbitant amount of money to boost its recruiting power.
    — Mark Lasota, Ph.d., Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

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