Collins was running desperately for his reputation as the best sprinter in the school was at stake.
It had become noised about that a new sprinter in the person of Frank Armstrong had been turned up by Patsy, and every one wanted to see just how fast he was.
Then the training of the practised sprinter began to tell and Frank dropped behind, but not so far behind but that Patsy's face wore a much pleased grin when he finished.
Collins was the best sprinter of Queen's, as Frank afterward learned.
He chuckled to himself when the other books only laid even money against the sprinter when the betting on the race began the next afternoon.
Right," said the fat boys together, leaning over in true sprinter fashion so far as their stomachs would permit them to stoop.
The red worsted was waiting for its first break, and beyond, hung against the walls, were the mattresses to catch the sprinter unable to check his speed.
Yet despite his unsportsmanlike and ludicrous costume, a better-built man for a sprinter I never saw, and I have seen some of the best.
One little fellow told Shack he would be quite a sprinter when he "got his growth.
The margin of difference between a green sprinter and a trained one is only a few seconds, but the green walker has to overcome a difference of several minutes before he can hope for success in a mile match.
There was developed in the freshman class a sprinter who almost bested Bobby Hargrew at first; but the freshmen had little, after all, to do when the big day came.
Central High had to develop a first-class sprinter to win that event at the June tourney, and, as Laura said, "it was a question where the lightning would strike.
Central High needed the points that a champion sprinter could win, just as the school needed the points putting the shot, and the broad jump, would add to its record.
Then he turned toward the batter, and he had scarcely twitched a muscle in the beginning of his swing, when the keensprinter was gone like a flash.
Then as the sprinter got into his wonderful stride once more the whole audience rose in yelling, crashing clamor.
But he had to pitch the ball, and as his elbow trembled the sprinter shot out of his tracks with the start that had made him famous.
He held to it, almost splitting his throat, while the sprinter twinkled round third base and came home like a thunderbolt.
The championship sprinter beat the throw by yards.
The sprinter was alone, sitting by his lamp, with books and notes spread before him.
The fact that the sprinter did not say a word showed Ken he was understood, and he felt immeasurably grateful.
The crafty sprinter knew how to appeal to the students.
Nor were the captain and sprinter deaf to the purport of that hour; only in their faces shone a kindling glow and flush.
More than once Ken had gone to the great sprinter with confidences and troubles, and now he began impulsively, hurriedly, incoherently, to tell the story.
He knew that this peculiar disappearance of Colon could not be an accident; nor had the long-legged sprinter gone away of his own accord.
Mechanicsburg rooter, as he saw the local sprinter shoot past both the others as though they were standing still; and come toward the finish.
Ten to one now they haven't got as fast a sprinter as our long legged Colon in their whole school.
He looked neither to the right nor to the left, nor behind him; but, like a sprinter approaching the wire, only straight ahead.
The muscles of the long legs tightened as do those of a sprinter awaiting the starting pistol.
Did you beat the fast sprinterfrom the Toad Hollow Institute?
Not that he begrudged either the honors he had won, but his own reputation as a sprinter had preceded his coming to Winthrop, and Will knew that great things had been expected of him.
If a sprinter with a light weight up can get away first, she may never be headed till the finish.
Emetic was the fastestsprinter there that day; a sprinter, not a stayer.
This jam, after inexplicably hanging fire for a week, as inexplicably started like a sprinter almost into its full gait.
Like a sprinter his volition was fixed on a goal, beyond which lay collapse.
Even now, however, the youngsprinter should not tire himself.
Not many athletes can excel in all kinds of running, and the champion sprinter is not generally a winner of long-distance races.
One was the 'varsity sprinter and could cover a hundred yards in ten flat.
Coming from the right was Teeny-bits, but at first no one gave the new member of the scrub a thought, for Durant was a sprinter and he was going down field at his best pace.
In spite of Scott's skill, Hanley swung the ball far round into right field, but he hit it high, and almost before he actually hit it the great sprinter was speeding across the green.
But this trained sprinter gathered speed as he ran.
The brown face of the Centipede sprinter split into a grin, his eyes gleamed.
After a moment's meditation, he observed: "Speed doesn't look like a sprinter to me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprinter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
