Examples of “cricket” in a Sentence

noun A small jumping insect related to grasshoppers, known for the chirping sound the males make by rubbing their wings together.

• The crickets chirped loudly all through the summer night.
• A cricket hid under the porch and sang until the early morning.
• The boy caught a cricket in a jar and let it go later.

noun A bat-and-ball team sport, popular across England and the Commonwealth, played on a large oval field with a wicket at each end.

• They stayed up late watching the cricket match between England and Australia.
• He learned to play cricket at school and still bowls for a local club.
• Our village plays cricket on the green every Sunday afternoon in summer.

noun Fair or sportsmanlike behavior (from the phrase "not cricket").

• Reading her private messages just wasn't cricket.
• Taking the last biscuit without asking isn't quite cricket, is it?
• It wouldn't be cricket to change the rules halfway through the game.