How to Use evenly matched in a Sentence

evenly matched

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  • The answer depends a bit on the sport, but in general, the goal is to keep teams approximately evenly matched.
    — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 3 Sep. 2024
  • For the first half of the game, the teams seemed evenly matched.
    — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The singers seemed evenly matched, and both received praise from the coaches.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • At this point, the two sides seem pretty evenly matched.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The narrow spread, one point in favor of the Bills, reflects how evenly matched these two teams are.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The teams seem evenly matched from a talent standpoint.
    — Rex Nelson, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But for a rivalry to take hold, the results must be evenly matched.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • On the Billboard 200, their stats are pretty evenly matched.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Looking at the specs, the Pixel 9 and Galaxy S24 devices are evenly matched.
    — PCMAG, 14 Aug. 2024
  • These two are evenly matched, but there is one under-the-radar trend worth digging into.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Oddsmakers are split—and have the games evenly matched.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Friday’s Boise State game was the most frustrating because the teams seemed evenly matched.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Faith Academy and Arab are evenly matched on the other side of the bracket, but expect Arab to prevail in a tight match.
    — Dennis Victory, al, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The 2024 presidential election promises to be close; head-to-head polls show Biden and Trump evenly matched.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • He’s evenly matched with the rugged but clean-cut Bracey, though the disparity in celebrity between the two male leads rather tips the film’s ultimate hand.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Barring that inept performance, the rest of the class was quite evenly matched, with five cars finishing on the same lap and split by less than 20 seconds.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2024
  • For the rest of the 20th century, Democrats and Republicans remained evenly matched.
    — Jonathan J. Kasparek, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • This year’s two stars are so evenly matched that two weeks into the race only ten seconds separated them.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • The sides were evenly matched through the first five minutes of the game before Michigan ran off six straight points in a 40-second span capped by four points from sophomore shooting guard Laila Phelia.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Chuck Carlton: Playoff teams are so evenly matched that five-on-five is generally a stalemate.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The pair quickly discovered they were evenly matched in their pace, although perhaps opposites in their approach and style.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • This shows how razor-thin the margin for error is in a hyper-competitive league where most teams are evenly matched and injuries happen.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Despite how well both teams have been scoring, this one is likely to stay close given how evenly matched both rosters are with skill and defensive players.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Despite voters’ sour mood, Biden and Trump appear evenly matched in most recent national polls.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • The Stars’ issue going forward, beyond the significant loss of Pavelski, is that these teams are so evenly matched.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • So the question is, how can politics move forward where the pro- and anti-forces regarding progressivism are, in electoral terms, so evenly matched, where margins are so thin.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • If these two teams are as evenly matched as many analysts suggest, the composure factor will likely favor Kansas City.
    — Zack Jones, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Currently, the United States and China are evenly matched in their economic relations with Vietnam.
    — Jianli Yang, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The group was nearly evenly matched by about 15 local and federal law enforcement officers who stood in front of Kavanaugh’s home as demonstrators slowly walked up and down one block of his narrow street.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • The Southern Section Division 2 football playoff openers are so evenly matched that calling a game an upset if the lower seed wins would be inaccurate.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023

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