basketball game

collocation in English

meaningsofbasketballandgame

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basketball
noun
uk
/ˈbɑː.skɪt.bɔːl/us
/ˈbæs.kət.bɑːl/
a game played by two teams of five players who score points by throwing a large ball through an open net hanging from a ...
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game
adjective
uk
/ɡeɪm/us
/ɡeɪm/
willing to do things that are new, difficult, or that ...
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(Definition ofbasketballandgamefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The teachers' pleas for calm were greeted with cheers that would not have been out of place at abasketballgame.
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It was held in the living room of a townhouse where several members lived, with couches and extra chairs arranged around a television tuned to a collegebasketballgame.
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It was the first teambasketballgameto feature an in-game instant replay feature.
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In 5th grade, he evaded 15 gang members who were trying to pursue him on his walk home from winning abasketballgame.
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This week, they have to nominate in abasketballgame.
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Legend tells that during abasketballgame, some time ago, a few of the baseball players showed up with a live ram.
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Tracking him down, she plays abasketballgamewith him, offers to listen to his relationship woes and genuinely tries to make him feel better.
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By his second year (possibly due to an arm injury in abasketballgamethe previous year), she relented, and he made an immediate impact.
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The match was historic, the first nationally syndicated collegebasketballgameand the first to play in a domed stadium before more than 52,000 fans.
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It's turned into abasketballgameout there.
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They met after she noticed him accidentally scoring four consecutive points for the opposing team in a freshmanbasketballgame.
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He believed abasketballgameshould be entertaining, and he was a big fan of college basketball.
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By 1979, the gym was finished and the school's firstbasketballgamewas played.
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He had not played in abasketballgamesince high school.
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Touch rugby is often played informally, rather like a pick-up soccer orbasketballgame.
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They then listened to a recorded radio broadcast of abasketballgame.
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One example of an activity modification is a wheelchairbasketballgame, where players use wheelchairs.
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The game drew a crowd of more than 10,000, making it the largest crowd to see abasketballgamein the arena's history.
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Every winter at a homebasketballgame, honorees are inducted.
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In the early years after the rivalry resumed whoever would win the football game would go on to lose thebasketballgame.
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