Sentence examples for a professional star from inspiring English sources

Gallinari's father, Vittorio, a professional star in Italy, considered Bird his favorite player, so he made sure his son saw snippets of Bird's career.

He could just as easily be rich, older, a businessman, a professional, star athlete, college professor, or as in the horrific case of NYPD officer Omar Edwards, the police officer gunned down by a white cop.

Football player Lance Sullivan, played by Morris Chestnut, is now a professional star on the cusp of breaking an all-time rushing record; and Jordan Armstrong, portrayed by Nia Long, is an Emmy-winning executive at TV news network MSNBC.

By traditional measures, he was a prime target: a ranked professional star in his sport whose downfall could serve as an example.

But in 2010 not one of them was able to identify Jeremy Lin of Harvard as a future professional star.

Since the NCAA expanded its signature event to 64 teams in 1985, just four of 108 15-seeds had advanced to the second round: Richmond beat Syracuse in 1991, Santa Clara (led by Steve Nash, a future professional star) outlasted Arizona in 1993, Coppin State shocked South Carolina in 1997 and Hampton edged Iowa State in 2001.

41 Fresh Air Fund 47 OBITUARIES 48 Faye Dancer A professional baseball star of the 1940's, she was 77.

Jake (Christopher Wiehl) admits that even when he was playing Major League Baseball, he secretly wished he were a professional football star.

Money wasn't too much of an issue – they'd both saved hard – and by opting for choreography, Frogner's age and relative lack of experience wouldn't matter as they would had she been set on becoming a prima ballerina (such a step, it seems safe to assume, would have been unprecedented – an amateur performer in her 30s becoming a professional ballet star).

Within the last year, Quiksilver has expanded into golf apparel, come up with a new brand for post-college-age women and begun aggressively marketing a line named for Tony Hawk, a professional skateboarding star, which seeks to merge the worlds of surfing and skating -- many teenagers say they do both -- and snowboarding as well.

As a professional basketball star three decades ago, Bill Bradley was shocked at how much time he spent with lawyers seeking ways to shelter his income from taxes, and at how team owners benefited from "loopholes big enough to drive a Sherman tank through," as he put it in his 1976 memoir, "Life on the Run".