NOUN
- a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
How To Use American football In A Sentence
- American football, on the other hand, is a game of intrigue, strategies and intellect.
- And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football.
- Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies. Important Notice!
- Mr Foxley said there were still some problems with organising the event including installing a set of rugby or American Football posts instead of the football goals.
- The characters include a young African-American football player taking refuge from gang violence in his native Los Angeles, a 7-year-old boy on a strict regimen of medications for bipolar disorder, and a sage-like codger who scrapes together a living through illegal sales of cigarettes from a local Native American reservation. A Delectable First Course of Foreign Films
- He was a great fan of American football, and rarely missed the Super Bowl.
- And his top sports were baseball and American football. The Sun
- Apart from his moments of glory on the American football field, he is a lumbering giant mostly used to elicit reactions from the cast around him. Times, Sunday Times
- Each of the cuplike traps on an Attenborough's pitcher plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii's) is as big as an American football—making the pitchers among the largest known.
- The channel broadcasts more than 800 live and as-live sports events each year, including Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL), National Football League (NFL), NCAA American Football and Basketball. Undefined
