Sentence examples for a filled stadium from inspiring English sources

In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Aug. 10 — For one unseasonably cool evening at a sparsely filled stadium in a New Jersey swamp, the Atlanta Falcons were a team without controversy, or star quality.

If baseball sold Johnson 51percentt of the Expos for $120 million, it could sell the rest to a willing buyer in several years, when the benefits of being in a better market and a (presumably) filled stadium are apparent.

The Estonian national team learned the lesson the hard way at a friendly match with Bulgaria in February in a sparsely filled stadium in Turkey.

Approximately 1,500 received tickets for the home sections of a barely filled stadium but the local authorities refused to create an overspill amid concerns at the behaviour of their own supporters.

Later, they filled stadiums.

If you have an artist with a worldwide fanbase, an ability to fill stadiums and popularity in territories where One Direction would fail to raise an eyebrow, then you want to make the most of his debut album.

Miami, Syracuse and Boston College have been mentioned as candidates to leave the Big East, a defection born of a need to fill stadiums and wallets.

Kings of Leon – a band who fill stadiums with minor variations on a couple of rote themes – have actually called their own album "mechanical bull"?

Two years ago he revived "The Wall" and took it on a world tour, filling stadiums and arenas and grossing more than $333 million.

I have never felt particularly upset by hearing a song I like on a TV advert, especially when I know it's by an act who is not filling stadiums on a nightly basis.