How to Use surfing in a Sentence

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  • Her hobbies include diving and surfing.
  • At the end of the day, surfing comes ahead of everything else.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • If the Olympic Games go ahead in 2021, surfing will be an Olympic sport for the first time.
    — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 7 July 2020
  • In late May, she was laid off and went back to couch-surfing.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2020
  • The child’s death is now the fourth — and youngest — child to die this year by subway surfing.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The backwash from waves hitting the shore made the surfing there bumpy.
    — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The beds were firm and great for my tired body after a long day of surfing.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024
  • Omega has 350 tons of gear spread out across France and Tahiti (the surfing venue).
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • More: Olympic surfing was crazy and wild, but a big success.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2021
  • Alongside poke bowls and the sport of surfing, the plate lunch has become one of the hallmarks of the fiftieth state.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The film’s stars are three of surfing’s top performers on Tour and film.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • With a very heavy heart the surfing world lost a very talented, very young surfer.
    — CBS News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • By the age of 13, Khadjou Sambe had fallen in love with surfing.
    — Shauna Beni, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Big wave surfing has never been about the money for the elite surfers around the world who chase the biggest swells.
    — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Turns out the dog, who is named Maji, knew to stay on the beach and wait for her owner, who was out surfing.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The area is also known for surfing and fishing and for the hiking trails that wind along the coastline.
    — Mariette Williams, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • For many, knowledge of surfing might be limited to movies of the ‘60s.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
  • For the first time in Olympics history, surfing is an event at the Summer Games.
    — Carter Evans, CBS News, 22 July 2021
  • The surfing semifinals at the 2024 Olympic Games had a surprise guest!
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • He's argued in the past that the Ventures were adopted by the '60s surfing craze, not vice-versa.
    — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • For the best surfing on the south side of the island, drive head east to Sombrio Beach or Jordan River.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This marked the first time that surfing has been included on the Olympic schedule for the Summer Games.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2021
  • Those couch surfing days are not that far in the rearview — roughly five years — though much has happened since.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The biggest names in surfing will hit Tsurigasaki Beach with Olympic medals at stake for the first time.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2021
  • Just months ago, the world's largest surfing wave pool opened up on the island — filled with freshwater.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • And hopefully two more will be long enough to get a feel for moshing and crowd-surfing again.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 May 2021
  • Four new sports were added to the Tokyo Olympics: surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing and karate.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • End of carousel The Hawaii native presided over the sport as women’s surfing began to make huge strides over the past decade.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • For me, a two-hour kite surfing session of the back of the yacht is almost like meditation.
    — Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Cultural practice has the answer for everything and surfing is a metaphor for life.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025

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