Sentence examples for word tournament from inspiring English sources

In the early 20th century, the word tournament also came to be applied to certain methods of conducting sports competitions.

In other words, tournament officials cannot use high-def, super slo-mo video to determine if a ball moved as a player picked at adjacent twigs or other debris.

At a hundred and seventy-eight thousand six hundred and ninety-one words, the Tournament Word List (TWL), used in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Thailand, is considerably shorter than SOWPODS, the combined American and British tournament word list (two hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-one words), which is used everywhere else that Scrabble is played in English.

He was competing in a word-game tournament.

In other words, the tournament is often as close as college players get to experiencing the game at a professional level.

But they needn't have worried, because there were reassuring words from tournament chief medical officer Dr Tim Wood on 5 live: "We evolved on the high plains of Africa chasing antelope for eight hours under these conditions.

Every year he vows not to travel as much the next, and for the most part he has stuck to his word, playing in tournaments in the area now and then, but for the most part staying at home.

After all, the last time Hofstra awaited word on the N.C.A.A. tournament brackets knowing it would actually participate was in 1977.

In the golf world we have John Daly, who was "abandoned" (his word) by sponsors and tournament organizers after admitting chronic gambling.

"I started out by learning the 96 two-letter words, and the close to 1,000 three-letter words," Mr. Fatsis said, adding that tournament players refer to the "Official Club and Tournament Word List" for the final word on what is a word.

The broadcaster Mark Nicholas dismissed them as being "short of brains" in a tournament preview, words which have fuelled them on their charge to the final.