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• The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.From the entry injure
• My obsession with rugby resulted in me spending years following the sport.From the entry obsession
• He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.From the entry burly
• He was a rugby blue at Cambridge.From the entry blue
• Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.From the entry bridge
• His rugby boots were caked in mud after the game.From the entry rugby boot
• Rugby players are of sturdy build.From the entry build
• Then check out the quadball championship that combines elements of rugby, basketball and dodgeball.2023 August 24, Susan Stapleton, “Plan your weekend: This weekend offers quadball, World Food, Music Fest and more”, in Des Moines…. From the entry quadball
• World class rugby players don't take losing well, but some take it worse than others.2023 February 10, “Every home nations most hated player by rival fans in the Six Nations”, in RUCK. From the entry pantomime villain
• But who are the players that rugby fans just love to hate, and why?2023 February 10, “Every home nations most hated player by rival fans in the Six Nations”, in RUCK. From the entry pantomime villain
• When Carling visited Kensington Palace for a romantic rendezvous, he gave both the boys a rugby shirt.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry hero-worship
• The Maori haka ritual has been made famous by the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby team.2013, Matt J. Rossano, “Mountain Rituals”, in Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us about Human Evolution, New…. From the entry haka
• Examination rooms contain shelves overstuffed with football helmets, autographed equipment and even rugby gear.2011, Mel LeCompte, The Tee Cotton Bowl. From the entry triple
• As for the BBC, they are officially the worst televisors of rugby I've yet seen.2003 August 17, John Williams, “"If Johnny missed two or three kicks there'd be a national inquiry"”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet)…. From the entry televisor
• James was instructed to monitor his thoughts during rugby practices, matches and nonrugby events.2002, Bruce D. Hale, David J. Collins, Rugby tough. From the entry nonrugby
• NZ will be the first country to build air conned halls to play rugby in.1997 February 13, Andre Maritz, “NZ at it again!”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026. From the entry air conned
• It's a fast-track to becoming a very good rugby player.2017 January 21, George Gregan, quotee, “Rugby: Gregan sticks with Cheika”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: NZME, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry flat stick
• The Sevens practice session was touch rugby, but every time Harvey got the ball, I absolutely mullahed him.2016, Ben Cohen, Carry Me Home: My Autobiography, page 76. From the entry mullah
• They wear black wool singlets (sleeveless shirts) and dark green shirt-jackets, gum boots, and rugby jerseys with sleeves cut off.2001, Rita Golden Gelman, “New Zealand via Bali”, in Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, 1st paperback edition, New…. From the entry bloke
• ON the Friday before an international these days, most rugby teams have a light training session supervised by the captain.1999 October 23, John Hopkins, “Australia dismiss Henry's praise”, in The Times, number 66653, London, page 39. From the entry captain's run
• A quintet of college kids, rugby shirts, Adidased feet.1980 [1979], Jacob Epstein, Wild Oats, New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry Adidased
• With the home crowd willing England on, Matthews crossed after more scrum dominance as simple and effective rugby continued to bring success.2025 September 27, Alastair Telfer, “England overpower Canada to win Women's World Cup”, in BBC Sport. From the entry will on
• McCaw won every trophy going, but also something probably harder than all of them: the near-universal respect of the notoriously fickle New Zealand rugby fan.2015 November 19, Jamie Wall, “Sky's the limit for Richie McCaw”, in Radio New Zealand. From the entry nut-bar
• I'm a fan of rugby league.2013 March 13. Ricky Stuart, quoted in "Doping scandal is overwhelming league: Stuart". From the entry tragic
• I'm a tragic of rugby league.2013 March 13. Ricky Stuart, quoted in "Doping scandal is overwhelming league: Stuart". From the entry tragic
• Here you can also stick your nose in a box and experience what a rugby changing room smells like—embrocation, I think they mean.2010 September 6, “Scrum deal: Warm up for the World Cup with a tour of New Zealand”, in Daily Mail. From the entry embrocation
• Even fresh Cacks with some prowess on the rugby or cricket field are likely to get it slightly easier than their quivering peers.2009, Matthew Knight, Between the Lines: The Spirit of South African Rugby, page 106. From the entry cack
• She′d made the train on squad for the Australian Opals basketball team and also played rugby for the Sydney University woman′s team.2009, Nick Ireland, The Popondetta Butterfly, page 34. From the entry opals
• I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.2007 November 18, Ieuan Evans, The Telegraph. From the entry cwtch
• For Alan Jones to win a GPS rugby premiership in his maiden year would have made him heroic as well as unsackable.2007, Chris Masters, Jonestown: the power and the myth of Alan Jones. From the entry unsackable
• What’s more, the stripe can almost magically convey nonnautical nautical, nonrugby rugby or non-’70s ’70s; it’s a kind of all-access pass of the style world.2007 April 26, David Colman, “Flashy but Well Within the Lines”, in New York Times. From the entry nonrugby
• "There are so many adults with fitness problems today because, other than a little chesterfield rugby, they never exercise," said Allan Little, Edmonton YMCA supervisor.1975 November 13, “Lazy Muscles: Fitness Scares Them”, in The Montreal Gazette. From the entry chesterfield rugby
• You'll do better to dance together or play tennis than to use up all that ebulience in what we used to call chesterfield rugby.1973 August 25, Doris Clark, “Successful Living”, in The Leader-Post. From the entry chesterfield rugby
• Our two children are immediately involved in a frantic game of touch rugby orchestrated by Vinny, an Irish backpacker, who is WOOFing his way around New Zealand.2008 September 1, “Your family holidays”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry woof
• The 34-year-old is expected to be the life and soul of the camp with his big personality and humour, which has seen him being labelled the Bantersaurus Rex of rugby.2019 November 17, “I’m A Celebrity’s James Haskall says he won’t miss sex with wife Chloe Madeley in the jungle because he’ll be too…. From the entry bantersaurus rex
• Nudgee College is regarded as the greatest rugby nursery in Queensland, with the boys in the blue-and-white butcher's stripes winning more Greater Public School rugby premierships than any other team.2010, Tracey Wickham, with Peter Meares, chapter 1, in Treading Water, North Sydney, N.S.W.: Ebury Publishing, →ISBN; republished Sydney…. From the entry nursery
• He also excelled at athletics, rugby and tennis but his ability to amass a huge cricket score in a single innings was soon to gain him headlines around the world.2001, Australian Legends, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN. From the entry cricket score

Meaning of rugby

1. noun A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball; rugby football. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past the opponent's territory or by kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.
2. noun The form of the game known as rugby union (see the usage note).
3. verb To play rugby.

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Questions about rugby in a sentence

How do you use rugby in a sentence?

Rugby is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.”

What is a short sentence with rugby?

“I'm a fan of rugby league.”

What does rugby mean?

Rugby means a form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball; rugby football. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past the opponent's territory or by kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.