Sample Sentences for
curveball
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    When she said it, I thought we were heading into a discussion about the power of prayer and faith, but Jamie tossed yet another curveball at me.  (source)
    curveball = something unexpected
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    Despite the first few curveballs, we were now back on our original plan.  (source)
    curveballs = unexpected events
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    This world is a mean curveball thrown by an overly excited, steroid-fueled kid pitcher, who no more cares about the integrity of the game than he does about the Costa Ricans who painstakingly stitch the balls together by hand.†  (source)
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    The day after Christmas, we were thrown a curveball: Coach Meyer resigned.†  (source)
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    Byron started throwing me curveballs.†  (source)
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    Couldn't hit a curve ball, even back in high school.†  (source)
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    There was Danny Saunders, sitting on my bed in the hospital dressed in his Hasidic-style clothes and talking about wanting to kill me because I had pitched him some curve balls.†  (source)
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    His wicked curveball attracted the major-league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds.†  (source)
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    He could throw a football fifty yards, sink a ten-foot hook shot with monotonous regularity, and throw one of the finest curveballs I had ever seen.†  (source)
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    Not toss each other aside because life threw a curveball their way, even if it was a major curve ball.†  (source)
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    They liked Rick, who showed them how professional basketball players took foul shots, and how to throw curve balls.†  (source)
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    Norberto called for a curveball for the next batter, Leonard Tobey.†  (source)
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    Those curveballs she sometimes threw could smack you right between the eyeballs.†  (source)
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