How do you use the word "team" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "team" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "team": Your team doesn't have a prayer to win the championship game. I'm glad that your team won the game.

Team Meaning

/ˈtiːm/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.

nounAny group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.

Sentence Examples

Your team doesn't have a prayer to win the championship game.

I'm glad that your team won the game.

The choice of players for the team seemed completely arbitrary.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

squad

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

They decided to cooperate and become a strong ____ to win.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The local football ____ won the championship trophy for the third year in a row after a very exciting final match today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Danish tømme (“rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough." — 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

"The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards." — 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111:

"she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her" — 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

"a long team of snowy swans on high" — 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

"TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team." — 1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary & Glossary, volume II:

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