CRICKET in a Sentence
Learn CRICKET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
39 example sentences for CRICKET, such as:
1. I'm happy as a cricket here, answered Jo.
2. The crowd loves to watch attacking cricket.
3. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
4. She had met him once only, at a cricket match.
5. Football, cricket and hockey are all team sports.
2. The crowd loves to watch attacking cricket.
3. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
4. She had met him once only, at a cricket match.
5. Football, cricket and hockey are all team sports.
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Meanings and Examples of CRICKET
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cricket
v. play cricket
n. leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.
2 Our cat ran away once, and he brought her back, and we talked over the fence, and were getting on capitally, all about cricket, and so on, when he saw Meg coming, and walked off.
3 And he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo's prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home.
4 I'm happy as a cricket here, answered Jo.
5 "Well, I like to hear about cricket and boating and hunting," said Frank, who had not yet learned to suit his amusements to his strength.
6 After a minute's silence, he looked down at Amy, who sat on the cricket at his feet, and said, with a caress of the shining hair.
7 "Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one," began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance.
8 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.
9 And from here and from there came the sounds of the cricket bats through the soft grey air.
10 The air was very silent and you could hear the cricket bats but more slowly than before: pick, pock.
11 In the silence of the soft grey air he heard the cricket bats from here and from there: pock.
12 He saw himself walking about the grounds watching the sports in Clongowes and eating slim jim out of his cricket cap.
13 She had met him once only, at a cricket match.
14 The lower of the three is Gilchrist, a fine scholar and athlete, plays in the Rugby team and the cricket team for the college, and got his Blue for the hurdles and the long jump.
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15 And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
Example Sentence:
1 Steven took his son to a cricket match as a birthday treat.
2 The crowd loves to watch attacking cricket.
3 The coach has left John out of the school cricket team.
4 Warwickshire are the current holders of the cricket championship.
5 He felt he would never tire of international cricket.
6 By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
7 Football, cricket and hockey are all team sports.
8 A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
9 Here at the WACA we've witnessed the restoration of cricket's status quo.
10 He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
11 Wes Hall was once one of the West Indies' great cricketers.