curveballin a sentence
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His curveball was huge and sloping, and with a 12-mph differential from the fastball.
curveball = baseball: a pitch thrown with a rotation that makes the ball curve
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She threw me a curveball when she said she wanted to work at a different company.
curveball = something that is surprising
- The Mud Hens had a roster slot, and the scout had a notion to fill it with the pitcher with the wicked curveball, name of Earl Grayson.† (source)
- 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)
- Byron started throwing me curveballs.† (source)
- Couldn't hit a curve ball, even back in high school.† (source)
- The day after Christmas, we were thrown a curveball: Coach Meyer resigned.† (source)
- They both lived lives full of curve balls and sudden changes in plan.† (source)
- It was a curveball that he didn't think was gonna break into him so much, so he leaned in a bit too far.† (source)
- His wicked curveball attracted the major-league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds.† (source)
- Not toss each other aside because life threw a curveball their way, even if it was a major curve ball.† (source)
- Despite the first few curveballs, we were now back on our original plan.† (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)
- 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)
- [He shoots his hand forward and out to indicate the path of a curve ball† (source)
- 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)
- His curveball wasn't curving, his sinker wasn't sinking, his knuckler wasn't knuckling.† (source)
- Those curveballs she sometimes threw could smack you right between the eyeballs.† (source)
- All he did was set the Say Hey Kid down swinging — on three straight curveballs.† (source)
- Hundreds of flashbulbs fired as Angel's curveball began to break about five feet from the plate.† (source)
- Norberto called for a curveball for the next batter, Leonard Tobey.† (source)
- Norberto dug in as the Baytown pitcher served him a curve ball that didn't break.† (source)
- La Mesa's center fielder, Dennis Hanggi, took two fast curveballs for strikes.† (source)
- And now the stories were mixed with instruction: the grizzled, rickety coot showing the kid how to spray liners to the opposite field; how to get a jump on a long fly even before the batter hits it; how to throw the curveball.† (source)
- He hung on for thirteen more years, a baseball junkie, winding up in some hot tamale league in Guanajuato, Mexico, until his curveball could no longer bend around so much as a chili pepper and his fastball was slower than a señorita's answer.† (source)
- Curveballs and bus fumes and dreams, dreams of the Majors — clean sheets and an umpire at every base.† (source)
- Not toss each other aside because life threw a curveball their way, even if it was a major curve ball.† (source)
- Boh father and son wished Monterrey Industrial luck in the tournament and then walked away, wondering with what might have been had one curveball not curved so much.† (source)
- Again, Angel worked on pitching to the corners of the strike zone with low, fast curveballs, and he struck out Wilson to end La Mesa's second inning.† (source)
- McKirahan dug in, but Angel, cold in concentration on his next two pitches, sent curveballs toward the corners of the plate.† (source)
- After pitching the most important game thus far in his life, Angel began to throw pitch after pitch of curveballs and change-ups with his left and right arms for the press corps and other amazed onlookers.† (source)
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