football stadium

collocation in English

meaningsoffootballandstadium

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football
noun
uk
/ˈfʊt.bɔːl/us
/ˈfʊt.bɑːl/
UK
a game played between two teams of eleven people, where each team tries to win by kicking a ball into the other ...
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stadium
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/us
/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
a large closed area of land with rows of seats around the sides and often with no roof, used for sports events and ...
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(Definition offootballandstadiumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffootball stadium

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It is as large as afootballstadium.
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He also referred to the crowd control outside thefootballstadium.
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Imagine the headlines in the tabloid press if 50,000 children were injured in afootballstadiumin one day.
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Ayresome park, the localfootballstadium, could be filled three times over with the unemployed.
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Should those have priority over afootballstadium?
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A really goodfootballstadiumrequires seating close to the pitch.
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On top of that, the hospital is next door to thefootballstadium.
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Is he referring to a national sports stadium or simply to afootballstadium?
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It is not afootballstadiumto which people come with scarves and rattles to support their side, come what may, right or wrong.
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A 35,000-seaterfootballstadiumand an ice rink are to be built there.
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If all these people were gathered together and placed in a largefootballstadium, they would not even half fill it.
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It will emphasise that no act of violence, however small, can be tolerated within the grounds of afootballstadium.
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We are now discovering it on sites adjacent to schools, playing fields, housing schemes and the spectators' area of a local juniorfootballstadium.
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It is possible that afootballstadium, a school, a house and, in fact, anywhere can be designated a prison.
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It is rather like afootballstadium, particularly when it is packed, and everyone cheers on their side—even when it is playing rubbish.
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The inquiries should not be confined to football just because this really ghastly tragedy happened at afootballstadiumand nowhere else.
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They have a rotten job to do, especially when they are on duty at afootballstadiumor at any other large public gathering.
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We also raised the question of the need for a new nationalfootballstadium.
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The main objective is to keep them away from the danger place, which is thefootballstadiumand the area for vandalism.
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