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Example sentences for "athletes"

Lexicographically close words:
atheroma; atheromatous; athir; athirst; athlete; athletic; athleticism; athletics; athout; athrill
  1. And yet Mechanicsburg has just as good athletes as you can boast.

  2. Cissie Anderson, with her eyes fairly glued upon the line of young athletes who expected to compete for the honor of winning the great Marathon.

  3. What the readers of this Department are presumably most interested in just now is sport, and more particularly that sport participated in by their schoolmates, and by young athletes of their own age in other schools.

  4. Let me therefore urge the younger athletes to train themselves for events that they can achieve renown in rather than to waste their time in high kicking.

  5. He very justly argues that there are enough young athletes in the country, who want to do what he does, for him to give all his attention to them.

  6. One of the best athletes we had here three or four years ago was a chap named Bascom.

  7. Most of the athletes are with us, and we run things about as we wish them.

  8. We are punky to the state of rottenness, and we'll remain that way till the Gamma gets its head knocked off, and the best athletes in the school get a chance.

  9. Forty thousand athletes against eighty thousand athletes; two hundred odd iron throats perpetually vomiting an emetic of death.

  10. The first glimpse we get of these young athletes in Matarazzo's chronicle is on the occasion of a sudden assault upon Perugia, made by the Oddi and the exiles of their faction in September 1495.

  11. The nation of athletes and artists and philosophers were embarked on what seemed to some a holiday excursion, and for others bid fair to realise unbounded dreams of ambition or avarice.

  12. The galleries of Italy and the verses of the poets can alone help us to repeople the Academy with its mixed multitude of athletes and of sages.

  13. Passage on Greek Athletes in the Autolycus.

  14. Passing from the athletes to a cognate subject, the following fragment from the Dictys nobly expresses the ideal of friendship.

  15. All the statues of the athletes bear the seal and blossom of #sophrosyne#--that truly Greek virtue, the correlative in morals to the passion for beauty.

  16. It is not easy to connect the idea of vulgarity with that of the Greek athletes whose portraits in marble, no less resplendent than the immortal Apoxyomenos of the Vatican, adorned the peristyles of Altis.

  17. Early in Greek literature the same relentless light of moral science, like the gaze of Apollonius undoing Lamia's charm, had been cast upon the athletes by Xenophanes of Colophon.

  18. Another glimpse of athletes may be got from three lines torn out of the same play: #potera theorois eit' agonistais legeis?

  19. Such a wonderful handling of the ball in a match game would give the crowd a chance to break loose with mighty cheers, friends and foes joining in to do the clever athletes honor.

  20. So Jack commenced to chatter about the game, and how proud Chester folks would be of the young athletes who represented the town that day.

  21. It was one he had purchased long ago, before the filling out had set in which awaits all athletes when they relapse into a sedentary life.

  22. A free booklet for coaches that includes alcohol and drug information, reasons why athletes use drugs, suggested activities for coaches, a prevention program, a survey for athletes and coaches, and sample letters to parents.

  23. Assisting Athletes with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems.

  24. The athletes and members of the School Eleven, dressed in appropriate flannel, were depicted as a rale with their arms crossed over the backs of chairs, and brought very much into focus so as to display the muscular development in high relief.

  25. Gymnasiums are not always available for the average boy who likes exercise and who would like to learn the tricks on horizontal and parallel bars, horse and rings, which all young athletes are taught in regular gymnastic courses.

  26. I hope these few words on the subject will appeal to the athletes of the schools, and I shall be only too glad to hear from them, and, if possible, to give space to their suggestions.

  27. But I believe the athletic authorities of Yale would be so glad of the opportunity to help and assist the school athletes that they would even go so far as to offer a cup to be contested for.

  28. The work of the school athletes has decidedly become a factor in amateur sport.

  29. It would not be advisable to hold the meeting in a different city each year, for the Portland and Bangor athletes would not care to journey to Philadelphia, neither would the Pennsylvanians care to travel up into Maine.

  30. At Pompeii genre figures predominate, including such types as gladiators, athletes in the circus, slaves carrying bundles, and personages in Roman costume.

  31. The athletes are often accompanied by trainers, who use a forked stick to direct their movements.

  32. Regularly every day these young athletes put in half an hour with the Indian clubs, determined that when the drills were discontinued they would keep up systematic training in the "gym.

  33. Geordie took his regular exercise, and was beginning to be looked upon as one of the likeliest athletes in the class.

  34. Next moment the vast foresail fell with a run by the board, and the nine athletes below were nearly shot into the air by the force of the collapse.

  35. As it happened, the Modern set consisted of a number of moderate athletes who could not be wholly ignored in the School sports, and had no intention of being ignored.

  36. Green lizards basked on the pavements which still showed the little ruts constructed to save the feet of contending athletes from slipping.

  37. Don't I make mineself young vonce more by following dese young athletes about?

  38. Is that the best opinion you have of us, after the way you've been praising us athletes for two years?

  39. Yet the fate of rowdy athletes in the school world is usually swift and satisfying.

  40. Since 1889 the policy of Lawrenceville has been to have men as instructors who were not only the best all-'round athletes of their college, but also the best scholars, and held in high esteem for character.

  41. Both athletes being therefore so morally corrupt, no deal could be arranged as to who should have the medal, and they were thus forced by their very spirit of unsportsmanship to decide the tie by actual contest.

  42. The unhealthy desire to win seems to characterize the young athletes of New York to a far greater extent than the healthy spirit of indulging in sport for sport's sake.

  43. All out they are too, and some dashed good athletes among 'em.

  44. I have seen once-fine athletes settle down like this before.

  45. The Latin School, in other words, opened its heart and its gymnasium, and warmly invited the Kingston athletes to come over and be eaten up in a grand indoor carnival.

  46. We have frequently heard intelligent fellows say that this would not do, as the college athletes would come back to school to compete.

  47. Is it possible that the Record suggests to the lurking professional spirit in certain school athletes that there is money "in it" for the boy who will go to college and try to enter sport for money?

  48. It is because of this degeneration of the heart and other muscles caused by alcohol that athletes in training need to be so very careful to avoid the use of beer and other intoxicating drinks.

  49. A question worthy of serious consideration is: how are the sick to be strengthened and "supported" by drinks which athletes are warned to specially shun as weakening to the body?

  50. Either the sick are mistakenly advised, or the athletes are in error.

  51. Athletes and their trainers have learned by experience that alcohol does not give strength, but is, in reality, a destroyer of muscular power.

  52. Matthew excitedly, as the tent opened, and young Rundell came out with confident bearing, leading the other half-dozen athletes to the starting place.

  53. It was the older lure that brought every year athletes of fame to run in the historic race.

  54. The physician and his party had been over at the high school boys' camp for something like twenty minutes, that same afternoon, watching the training work that the young athletes were undergoing.

  55. These six young Americans, Gridleyites, amateur athletes and high school boys, were first introduced to the reader during their eventful days of early chumship at the Central Grammar School.

  56. So the flushed young athletes rested, except Harry, who departed with the physician.

  57. But, on the other, hand, an equal number of young athletes in the other shell were just as doggedly determined not to yield one inch, if it could be held by any power of theirs.

  58. Sandy was accordingly dispatched with this missive, and requested to drop in again after he had seen the rival young athletes of the neighboring town.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "athletes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.