football star

collocation in English

meaningsoffootballandstar

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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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star
adjective[before noun]
uk
/stɑːr/us
/stɑːr/
best or ...
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(Definition offootballandstarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffootball star

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He has had a glittering career both politically and academically and, perhaps more importantly, is afootballstaras well.
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Some of these sensational "captures" which have been made are rather like capturing afootballstarwhen he has passed his best.
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We get almost the same pay—with the fringe benefits that afootballstarwill receive from the game.
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Let us not forget that, in football, many are called but few are chosen, and not every player is destined to be afootballstar.
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I wanted my kid to be afootballstar, not a national press secretary.
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Not only afootballstar, he was an intercollegiate boxing champion.
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The second verse then shifts to 16 years later when the girl is now a teenager who falls head-over-heels for the seniorfootballstar.
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He even made his own film starring himself as afootballstarto improve his image.
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Zul has said she often speaks to thefootballstarabout the pressures and pitfalls of professional sport.
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Lavern was a high schoolfootballstarand an outstanding golfer.
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He excelled in track and field, but was also afootballstarin high school.
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There, he becomes an unstoppablefootballstarand the most popular boy in school.
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Soon, he is a celebratedfootballstar.
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He became a popularfootballstar.
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It is in such spaces that our future football stars can develop their talents.
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The logical conclusion of the argument on racehorses would extend to transferring football stars out of the country.
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All they knew was that football stars analysts.
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Two real life football stars made cameo appearances.
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