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How to use league in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

League means a group or association of cooperating members. Example: “My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.”

Examples of league by meaning

nounA group or association of cooperating members.

  • the League of Nations

nounAn organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

  • My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.
  • He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world.

nounA class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

  • Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
  • We're not even in the same league.

nounA unit of itinerary distance varying with country, in Britain commonly about three statute miles (or five kilometres)....

  • Before him, trackless wilderness extended for many leagues before lapping against the outbuildings of some village.2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, page 70

More sentences with league

  • If we can win on Saturday, we'll go top of the league.From the entry go
  • After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.From the entry straight
  • You can't be so casual. You're in the major leagues now.From the entry major league
  • The company made a major league effort to get the contract.From the entry major league
  • They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.From the entry bush
  • Following Jackie Robinson's success, his uniform number, 42, became a retired number across all major league teams.From the entry retired
  • The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.From the entry middling
  • So you beat the worst team in the league. Big deal, call the TV crews.From the entry big deal
  • Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.From the entry pickup
  • On our website you can keep tabs of the top scorers in Europe’s major leagues.From the entry top scorer
  • These questions are out of my league, please let me ask a higher-up.From the entry out of one's league
  • An expensive car is out of your league right now, don't you think?From the entry out of one's league
  • South China is Hong Kong's most successful football club, having won 41 league titles.From the entry South China
  • We have designs on winning the league next season.From the entry design
  • The Cowboys placed third in the league.From the entry place
  • Their defense ranked third in the league.From the entry rank
  • In our league our coach is huge!From the entry huge
  • After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.From the entry send down
  • The team's first game was against the league champions; they were out of their depth and knew it.From the entry out of one's depth
  • The league recently announced tough new antidoping measures.From the entry antidoping
  • That team has the best starting pitchers in the league.From the entry starting pitcher
  • He made a real big league play.From the entry big league
  • I think she's in league with my opponent.From the entry in league with
  • Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.From the entry homer
  • "The big league athlete had the dubious honor of being voted 'Most Difficult to Interview' by the sportswriters." An ironic honor, so to speak.From the entry dubious honor
  • This year the Tigers are using pinch hitters 72 percent more often than the league average.2023 May 26, Cody Stavenhagen, “A.J. Hinch is managing with confidence as the Tigers hang tight in the AL Central”, in The New York Times…. From the entry pinch hitter
  • They entered Thursday leading the league with 59 pinch-hit plate appearances.2023 May 26, Cody Stavenhagen, “A.J. Hinch is managing with confidence as the Tigers hang tight in the AL Central”, in The New York Times…. From the entry pinch hitter
  • The league, meanwhile, is always loth to create a mess with points deductions, for example.March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian. From the entry loth
  • For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts.2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times. From the entry course-correct
  • These three clubs are also battling for top spot in the league standings.2021 March 19, “Football in France: Which clubs have the highest Buzz score?”, in YouGov, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2024. From the entry buzz score
  • You’re sending a message to drafted players: you are major league baseball’s step-child.2020 March 29, Brendan Bianowicz, quoting Scott Boras, “Scott Boras rips shortened MLB draft: ‘Sends wrong message’”, in New York Post…. From the entry step-child
  • This feels like a significant league title in more ways than one.2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived…. From the entry spendthrift
  • Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.2015 June 16, Donald Trump, “Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy”, in CBS News. From the entry big league
  • Now, understand, you would probably go in the farm league before going up in the majors.2014, Jerry Hall, Simply, Jim, →ISBN. From the entry farm league

Meaning of league

  1. noun A group or association of cooperating members.
  2. noun An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
  3. noun A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

Full definition of league

Questions about league in a sentence

How do you use league in a sentence?
League is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.”
What is a short sentence with league?
“the League of Nations”
What does league mean?
League means a group or association of cooperating members.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: league (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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