Sentence examples for a riveting game from inspiring English sources

It was just a riveting game.

Then, after five minutes of dissecting each nuance of a riveting game, Girardi, the Yankees' manager, was asked if he had yet discussed Ivan Nova, the winning pitcher.

In a riveting game between the top programs in women's college basketball, Snow and Randall cooled off for the first time since Catchings went down with a torn ligament in her right knee on Jan . 15

It was a classic at-bat in a riveting game for the Yankees, who increased their American League East lead to seven and a half games over the Red Sox and may have solved their left-handed relief problem.

The floater banked off the backboard, then the rim, and then in came a right hand, redirecting the ball toward the basket one last time — toward a climax of a riveting game between Duke and Central Florida, a seismic upset in an N.C.A.A. tournament that has unspooled mostly to form, toward the biggest victory in a program's history.

There, three days earlier, the Kings beat the New York Rangers, 3-2, in a riveting game to capture the Stanley Cup.

A Heisman Trophy, a riveting playoff game, an international following.

David Emmes directs the play as a riveting tennis game in which the characters dare each other to play honestly without ever really doing so themselves.

So who is that going to be?" After the Lakers' riveting Game 7 comeback against Portland last Sunday, even Jordan was not impressed.

Valentine was touched by the gesture, from Piazza and several others, and he did return to the Mets, signing a three-year, $7.95 million contract five days after losing to the Yankees in a riveting five-game World Series.

That series began on May 11 and ended on May 22 -- seven riveting games in 12 days.