How to Use showdown in a Sentence
showdown
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Here are the game details ahead of the Big 12 showdown...
— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024 -
Jared Goff will make the throws late to set up the showdown in Green Bay.
— Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2023 -
The Tigers will have their best pitcher on the mound for the first showdown with Ohtani.
— Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023 -
The 2024 World Series showdown could be epic and set records — in stores and in the stands.
— Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024 -
The lion’s share were in the ten-plus-minute finale showdown.
— Simon Thompson, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Still, the stage for the showdowns has nearly been set, the major players revealed.
— Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023 -
It’s been something of a theme over the first three games of this midseason AL West showdown.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 July 2023 -
The board voted in May to retain Mr. Sanchez, but the showdown left wounds in the community.
— John Leland John Leland, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Both sides have spent the past two decades preparing for their next showdown.
— Josef Federman, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 -
In relation to last year’s figures, the showdown just barely missed the mark by 8%.
— Breanna Bell, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023 -
As Shiv storms out of the apartment with her brothers in tow, both Mattson and the Roys prepare for a showdown.
— Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023 -
Check out how to claim this offer and preview an NFC showdown.
— Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022 -
The two sides have faced off in a fierce showdown over the control of two seats on Disney’s board and the future of the 100-year-old company.
— Bruce Gil, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024 -
The night before the showdown, Williams had gone to the home of Mildred Allen, one of his sisters, to vent his frustrations.
— oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023 -
And just like that famous showdown, this one also ended in a tie.
— Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 Aug. 2024 -
Democrats argue the showdown over the debt limit should not be the new normal way of doing the nation’s business.
— Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023 -
The show sees ‘faithfuls’ sniff out ‘traitors’ in one location via a series of games and showdowns.
— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024 -
The climactic showdown might have been borrowed from any Blumhouse movie over the past 10 years.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023 -
Previous showdowns have closed the government for as short as one day to as long as more than a month.
— Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023 -
Add to that the six sprint races and the total comes to 30 contests in just over nine months, with the final showdown in Abu Dhabi on December 8.
— Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024 -
Given the talent and story involved, this showdown had no choice but to be.
— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023 -
The last round of fighting in 2006 ended in a stalemate, and both sides have spent the past two decades preparing for their next showdown.
— Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Now, the city is kicking over another hornet’s nest in setting the stage for a legal showdown over the meaning and scope of the 2016 law.
— Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024 -
With all that out of the way then, here’s this week’s edition of the Starting Five, headlined by a top-10 showdown hosted by one of the game’s most storied venues.
— Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023 -
The marquee game that Saturday — and one of the top games in the country all season — is Ohio State’s showdown at Oregon.
— Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024 -
Here are the top moments from the DeSantis v Newsom showdown ...
— Fox News Staff, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023 -
The showdown was seen as a major victory for new money over old.
— Chris Vognar, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023 -
This weekend’s showdown in Washington looked bleak to many in Kyiv.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Yet the showdown would also emphasize certain fault lines in the Recording Academy and in the music business at large involving race, genre and authenticity — and not for the first time.
— Mikael Wood, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2024 -
The legal showdown had the potential for fireworks as a judge ordered Musk to appear personally in a Philadelphia courtroom.
— Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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