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How to use volleyball in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Volleyball means a game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net. Example: “My passion for football has worn off –I'm into into women's volleyball now.”

More sentences with volleyball

  • My passion for football has worn off –I'm into into women's volleyball now.From the entry wear off
  • His serves did not clear the volleyball net.From the entry serves
  • Helena, his Swedish mother, was an international heptathlete and volleyball player.2024 May 8, Liam Tharme, “Mondo Duplantis: Breaking down the biomechanics behind the best-ever pole vaulter”, in The New York Times. From the entry heptathlete
  • “Ahhh, Avery,” shouted the Yurtmeister after a full hour of intense volleyball.2009, Amy Bryant, The Great Scavenger Hunt, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry killer
  • Volleyball jerseys are formfitting and cute—unlike the oversize basketball or football ones.2009, Debbie Rigaud, chapter 2, in Perfect Shot (The Romantic Comedies), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry formfitting
  • “Panic in the Sky” starts off with a group of happy Mobians playing volleyball until interrupted by a shadow.2015, Richard J. Heggen, Floating Islands: an Activity Book, published 2021, page 172. From the entry Mobian
  • Next time you have an amby, tell them quick like to close their eyes and serve a volleyball.1997 April 11, RP Pelletier, “Re: Burton Slide Test”, in rec.skiing.snowboard (Usenet). From the entry amby
  • MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Playing volleyball in my gray coochie cutters.1995, For All the Right Reasons (yearbook), National City, CA: Sweetwater High School, page 94. From the entry coochie cutters
  • Over the next week, men and women from diverse backgrounds participated in eighteen sports ranging from boxing and billiards to physique, the marathon and volleyball.1983 February 12, Robert Ellgas, “Fond Memories, Difficult Questions”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 11. From the entry physique
  • Cheech is a starter in both basketball and volleyball and popular in both sports, at least in part because of Gram’s cookies—a rich, graham-crackery, chocolate-chip bar.1979 March 17, Elizabeth Wheeler, “Life on Road for UCLA Women”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., part III, page 8. From the entry graham-crackery

Meaning of volleyball

  1. noun A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
  2. noun The inflated ball used in such a game.

Full definition of volleyball

Questions about volleyball in a sentence

How do you use volleyball in a sentence?
Volleyball is used as a noun. For example: “My passion for football has worn off –I'm into into women's volleyball now.”
What is a short sentence with volleyball?
“His serves did not clear the volleyball net.”
What does volleyball mean?
Volleyball means a game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volleyball (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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