How to Use World Series in a Sentence

World Series

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  • This tournament is the World Series of poker.
  • The Dodgers have won the World Series once in the past 35 years.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Oscars were to movies what the World Series is to baseball.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The winner of the award will be announced during the 2023 World Series.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The Chicago Cubs won their last World Series for 108 years.
    — Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Quickly built the team that won the 1988 World Series title.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • That success comes about six months after the Texas Rangers won the World Series.
    — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • The Royals have lost 100 or more games three times since winning the World Series.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Astros won the World Series in 2017, beating the Dodgers in a seven-game series.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • This is a close group, a group that has been together since age 8, a group that went to the Pony League World Series.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • No big deal to the World Series winner with 92 career saves.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The first leg of the World Series, technically, was an even split.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Baltimore hasn’t won a World Series (or even been to one) in 40 years.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
  • Two of those instances were during the 2023 World Series.
    — C Mandler, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Last year, the Phillies were the team that kept Milwaukee from the final playoff spot, then went on to the World Series.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2023
  • The Dodgers weren’t World Series contenders, but neither were the Giants.
    — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Now, in the first playoff game the Marlins have played in a full season since that World Series, Luzardo was on the mound.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • No one understands that better than Bochy, who’s been to four World Series and won three.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 16 July 2023
  • And the Texas Rangers, of course, are the reigning World Series champions for the first time in franchise history.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 May 2024
  • Two World Series titles with a franchise that hadn’t won one in the 30 years before Clemente’s arrival.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Of the many variables that could influence the Dodgers’ World Series chances the rest of the year, one factor will be more important than all else.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
  • The Braves upgraded with a few trades, sneaked into the playoffs with 89 wins, got hot in October, and won the World Series.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Specifically with the Dodgers, for example: I was supposed to be there in the playoffs in 2021, to win the World Series.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Pro: It can be looked at as a good luck charm, considering the ending had to be rewritten when the Sox won their first World Series in 86 years.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But anyone whose top comp is Okajima, the easygoing setup man for the 2007 World Series champs, is off to a good start with me.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The team has reached the World Series only twice, also getting to the final round in 1984, but has never won a world championship.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The best way to win a World Series is to be good in as many seasons as possible, as anything can happen in the postseason.
    — Craig Mish, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Jarrod Dyson, who was part of the Royals’ 2015 World Series championship, was playing in the game, police say.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Peter Seidler wanted to win the World Series more than anything.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • According to multiple sources in the organization, Cora has been talking about taking the team back to the World Series this year since the end of last season.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024

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