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basketball

A ball game with two teams of five players. A goal is scored when a player throws the ball into a net (attached to a hoop) at each end of the court. I play on my school's basketball team. A ball used in the game of basketball. Throw the basketball to me.

basketball

(= hoops) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop an inflated ball used in playing basketball

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Topics basketball topics

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Simple sentences

She used to play basketball.
She played basketball.
Tom likes basketball.
The women's basketball team has a male coach.
Tom made the basketball team.
This math teacher is also the coach of the basketball team.
Tom used to play basketball.
Tom didn't play basketball.
Is Tom still on the basketball team?
I was watching basketball on TV last night.
Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.
Mike likes to play basketball.
It is interesting to play basketball.
Basketball is a lot of fun.
In basketball, tall players have an advantage.
Ball games, such as basketball and ping-pong, are usually played indoors.
Sam made the school basketball team.
We are basketball players.
We played basketball yesterday.
We played basketball in the gym.
I know that Mike likes basketball.
Two years ago I could not play basketball at all.
He plays basketball best of us all.
A basketball team consists of five players.
Do you play basketball well?
My sister belonged to the basketball club last year.
I watched the basketball game on TV.

Movie subtitles

When we met, I was the water boy for my high school basketball team, and I got stuffed in a locker after practice.
Cooper, you did kiss me at the basketball game.
It was too small for a basketball, and I didn't know what to do with it.
Boys, I hoped to start that basketball game today.
Why don't you want to go to the basketball game?
Hey, imagine us playing basketball all of a sudden.
Father, there ain't no future in playing basketball.
If basketball practice doesn't run too late.
I was playing basketball and when I got there, it was closed.
I just hate basketball.
But it is a little difficult to compete with basketball and Christmas.
We now got everything a dressing room needs except a basketball hoop.
Ben had some date Tommy went to play basketball.
Now, what I would suggest, Mr. Hagen, is maybe from now on you get after the basketball boys and the wrestling and the horses.
The way you're playing, you couldn't beat a girls' basketball team.
We just met over a basketball.
A new house and basketball court.
Guys who were good at things like music and basketball.
The future? About basketball?
Basketball?
What happened to the basketball game?
Watching a basketball game.
On Tuesday I play basketball.
When do you play basketball?
And I mean that with the kids, not with basketball, obviously.
Like kicking footballs, playing basketball going ice-skating, tumbling walking.
Just because he's the basketball champ is no reason for him to think.
But Gloria, darling, the question is, can a woman like me love a basketball player all of her life?

News and current affairs

As much as I loved playing basketball, I was destined never quite to reach six feet in height.
Basketball?
If a star basketball player reacts a split-second faster than his competitors, no one has a problem with his earning more for every game than five factory workers do in a year.
To be a devoted football or basketball player in the lowest series brings ridicule rather than fame.
Yao Ming, the Chinese star of the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets, could become another Michael Jordan, and China is set to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Even a brawl between the Chinese and a visiting American basketball team is viewed as evidence of China's aggressive behavior.
As a basketball fan, I would not describe the sport as a zero-sum game, even though one team wins and one team loses.
Gabriel has decided that if he can't become a professional basketball player when he grows up, then he'd like to buy a team.
A local man whose brothers all serve in the police force, a sports fan, and an amateur basketball coach, Crowley does not move in the same social circles as Gates.

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