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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CRICKET
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
4  I'm happy as a cricket here, answered Jo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  And from here and from there came the sounds of the cricket bats through the soft grey air.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  The air was very silent and you could hear the cricket bats but more slowly than before: pick, pock.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  In the silence of the soft grey air he heard the cricket bats from here and from there: pock.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  He saw himself walking about the grounds watching the sports in Clongowes and eating slim jim out of his cricket cap.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  She had met him once only, at a cricket match.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
15  And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.