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How to use cricketer in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Cricketer means a person who plays cricket. Example: “Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.”

Examples of cricketer by meaning

nounA person who plays cricket.

  • Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 103

More sentences with cricketer

  • Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.From the entry pole
  • The cricketer hit a ballooning shot for six runs.From the entry ballooning
  • The cricketer played a nothing shot.From the entry nothing
  • I mean the ambidextrous Test cricketers who batted right-handed and bowled left-arm, or the other way about.2009 October 29, Kersi Meher-Homji, “Weird or wonderful? The cricketing ambies”, in The Roar, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original…. From the entry amby
  • Marsh′s experiences during his first days in the Old Dart were no different from most Australian cricketers′.2004, Mark Browning, Rod Marsh: A Life in Cricket, page 55. From the entry Old Dart
  • The hockeyers are often referred to as Springboks, as well as the cricketers.1999 December 6, Mees Roelofs, “Springbok Jersey”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jul 2022. From the entry hockeyer
  • Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources.1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry stumpy
  • Only cricketers and Bollygarchs can afford that.2013 June 6, Bloomsbury Publishing, The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry Bollygarch
  • But he wouldn’t be a great cricketer; he was just a trundler, really, accurate enough, but no flair.2010, Kate De Goldi, chapter 8, in The 10 p.m. Question, Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, page 217. From the entry trundler
  • Once the cricketers had departed, Delia brought coffee and an unappetising lump of biscuitry into the sitting room.1998 -, Sally Morrison, Against gravity, page 73. From the entry biscuitry
  • We might start to talk seriously of cricketers being well advised to dismiss their limbs and to try to get on without them.1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press). From the entry picturesquely
  • Of course there are dull men who could not understand a tabby-cat or a professional cricketer, let alone an expert autothaumaturgist—a self-mystery-maker—like a woman.1906, William John Locke, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, London: John Lane, Part 1, Chapter 11, p. From the entry autothaumaturgist
  • Pakistani police said on Tuesday that they have launched a hunt for an emailer whose threatening message to New Zealand cricketers nearly jeopardised their tour to Pakistan.18 November 2003, Independent Online - Manhunt for emailer who threatened…. From the entry emailer

Meaning of cricketer

  1. noun A person who plays cricket.

Full definition of cricketer

Questions about cricketer in a sentence

How do you use cricketer in a sentence?
Cricketer is used as a noun. For example: “Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.”
What is a short sentence with cricketer?
“The cricketer played a nothing shot.”
What does cricketer mean?
Cricketer means a person who plays cricket.

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