all-star
consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all teams in a league or region: Our quarterback was chosen for the all-star team.
consisting entirely of star performers: an all-star cast.
Sports. a player selected for an all-star team.
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How to use all-star in a sentence
Putting the show to bed was like, “Fuck, am I breaking up this all-star team?”
To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.
At some point in the intervening decades, all of those cards have vanished, save one: my 1978 Reggie Jackson all-star card.
The Best Quantified Self Site You Haven’t Heard Of | Jamie Todd Rubin | August 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2007, Tim Hardaway lost his gig promoting the NBA and its all-star game after telling a radio interviewer that he hates gays.
Mark Cuban Warns That Basketball Players Could Get the Sterling Treatment Next | Evan Weiner | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.
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It sounded the death knell of the all-star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards.
Baseball Joe Around the World | Lester ChadwickIt was only a monologue, however: now we have an all-star cast: and they're not only Irish; they're royal Irish.
The Book of the Damned | Charles FortFrohman literally loved the word "star," and he delighted in the so-called "all-star casts."
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man | Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel FrohmanHe was pretty hard hit by the failure of the all-star League to go through last year, but hes got plenty left.
Baseball Joe, Home Run King | Lester ChadwickHe had "an all-star production," direct from "the leading theatres of the universe."
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheon
British Dictionary definitions for all-star
(prenominal) consisting of star performers
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