How to Use team player in a Sentence

team player

noun
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  • As Mars enters Aquarius, join the herd and be a team player.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Cena said his days in the world of WWE prepared him for keeping his head down and being a team player.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The ideal scout team player is better than anyone the Bruins will face but won’t rub it in theirs.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Oat flour: With its mild, neutral flavor and soft, starchy nature, oat flour is a great team player.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Madden, a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, was named the team’s defensive scout team player of the year in 2022.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Frankly, the Bengals are lucky that Burrow is a team player and participated in the first few days of practice.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • Carlson is not a team player, and in fact is uncontrollable.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Re-framing their mindset around the fear of being considered as not being a team player.
    — Rachel Montañez, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Cohen appeared in eight games in three seasons, making six tackles, and was the Bruins’ defensive scout team player of the year in 2021.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • If you can get staffed on these projects and do an amazing job, you will get recognized for being an integral team player.
    — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Jamie also lets Dani take the final penalty kick, showing his evolution as a team player.
    — Town & Country, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Is the public expecting the ultimate team player to be a volume scorer?
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Russell was considered the better team player, the winner.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Looking to keep Messi from scoring goals will be Pedro Gallese, a Peru national team player who is one of the league's top goalkeepers.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Francine embodies the qualities of a hard worker, team player, mentor, and teacher.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Di Felice, an inveterate team player, also praised the Gaultier atelier teams for being so brilliant to work with.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 25 June 2024
  • Following his Iron Man casting, the Oppenheimer actor went on to be a team player with his fellow superheroes and fought for them at various points.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Klay has put some nice games together lately and has been a great team player this season, but his best basketball is unquestionably behind him.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Jackman played a loner who didn’t work well with anyone but transitioned into a team player, father figure (to Anna Paquin’s Rogue) and, eventually, a leader.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Here too, China has continued the same dance, trying to come off as a team player while restraining the international community from acting too harshly against the Kim regime.
    — Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Burrow is everything any company or team would want as the face of the franchise – gentleman, team player, community-minded, winner.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
  • During his inaugural season at Red Bull, Pérez carried out a quality not commonly seen among F1 drivers — the ability to truly excel as a team player.
    — Xiomara Gerardo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Dunster, on the other hand, earned his first-ever Emmy nomination this year for his role of Jamie Tartt, who starts out as a selfish, egotistical ball hog who transforms into a far more emotionally mature team player by the final season.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • When an even more egotistical superstar named Zava (Maximilian Osinski) shows up, the team (and Ted) spend several episodes unbothered by his refusal to be a team player.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023

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