Sentence examples for spirited basketball from inspiring English sources

Acting as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton following the New York primaries, Levine used a spirited basketball metaphor to describe the Sanders campaign's efforts to stay in the race.

For months, the 2008-9 Knicks played spirited, competitive basketball, though typically lacking in any semblance of lockdown defense.

So does Mr. Knechtges's choreography, which makes spirited use of basketball moves, the kinetics of cheerleading and a blissful evocation of ancient terpsichorean signage.

FIJI won "Most Spirited Fraternity" at the Columbia-Yale Basketball Greek Night.

Their yapping is about basketball and rarely mean-spirited or malicious.

While the decision generated little discord within college basketball, it has provoked a spirited dispute in the larger world beyond players, coaches and athletic directors.

While the decision generated little discord within college basketball, it has provoked a spirited dispute between animal rights activists and the cattle industry.

The neighbouring houses are all oddly quiet, as if their famous occupants - Tom Jones, Robbie Williams, basketball player Shaquille O'Neal - had been spirited away, leaving just a team of silent housekeepers, nannies and gardeners to keep up appearances until their return.

"When I came here -- unbelievably almost nine years ago now -- our economy was profoundly troubled and our society was divided," Mr. Clinton told a spirited crowd of 12,000 packed inside the basketball arena at Michigan State University.

Every week or so on an asphalt court at Astoria Park in Queens, my buddies and I play a high-spirited if rather gimpy version of pickup basketball.

The New York University women's basketball team was engaged in a spirited three-hour practice recently.