Examples from literature

• Earl Boykins is a professional basketball player in the NBA – and he’s only 1.65 meters tall and weighs 60 kilograms. 
• It gives balls – basketballs, tennis balls, even golf balls – their bounce. 
• It tells the story of Conroy’s love for basketball. 
• Other balls such as basketballs and soccer balls contain a rubber bladder – an airtight pocket – full of compressed air. 
• Soccer, basketball, tennis, and other sports now attract more spectators. 
• What are their chances of becoming professional athletes in one of these team sports: baseball, basketball, hockey, or American football? 
• When we hear the word “sport,” we usually think of football, basketball, the Olympic Games, and things like that. 
• A student in one of our Church schools was once heard to say, "My teacher teaches me more religion by the way he plays basketball than by theway he teaches theology." 
• I am just as enthusiastic over basketball as ever, only I haven't had the time to devote to it that I did last year. 
• I know it, replied Grace, "but after Thanksgiving we'll only meet once in two weeks, for I must get my basketball team in shape, and you see all the members belong to the society." 
• There are two girls on the sophomore and three on the freshman team whose basketball ardor will have to cool until after the mid-year exams.