How to Use curveball in a Sentence

curveball

noun

• The batter struck out on a curveball.
• The one-two pitch on the way: curveball, tapped foul off to the left of the plate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The truth is, any time of the year can throw me a migraine curveball.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 11 Mar. 2022
• The first curveball of the sequence was well outside to run the count full.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• More of those curveballs Neville talked about loom on the horizon.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Urquidy’s first pitch to Trout that day at Minute Maid Park was a curveball.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• Reyes turned on a 1-and-1 curveball, sending it over the wall in left field.
  — Tim Withers, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2022
• With two on and one out, Mantiply tried to go down and away with a 1-2 curveball.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2022
• Jefferies tried a curveball and a 96 mph sinker that missed.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
• In the first inning, Stephenson hit a first pitch curveball to drive in a run.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
• And his curveball/changeup mix might be the best mix of secondary stuff in the system.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• With his 98th pitch, a curveball in the dirt, Snell ended the sixth inning with his 10th strikeout of the game.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Watching Tebow try to hit Triple A curveballs was more fun than this.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• In the 10th, Ketel Marte struck out looking on a curveball that appeared to miss the bottom of the zone.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• Good thing Davis knows how to handle a curveball or two.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 24 June 2022
• Kershaw used a 73-mph curveball and an 88-mph slider to get the final two outs of the frame.
  — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 25 July 2024
• Hill is a 6-foot-4 left hander with a fastball in the low 90s, a curveball, a slider and a change up.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024
• The right-hander is known for his deadly curveball, which has a spin rate of 3,000-plus rpm.
  — John Leuzzi, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2023
• That’s a bit of a wrinkle in the progress of this case that was unusual and a little bit of a curveball.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• With the bases loaded and Nick Castellanos at the plate, Drew Smith (two saves) jammed him with an 0-2 curveball.
  — Abbey Mastrocco, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2024
• Rosario drilled a Framber Valdez curveball over the wall in left center for a 1-0 Guardians lead.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2022
• Fate didn’t throw a curveball at Justin Hillman when he was born.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Soriano's first-pitch 86 mph curveball hit Alonso near the back of the neck.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• The slugger crushed his 39th home run of the season off of Tyson Miller’s 2-and-2 curveball, which Miller threw right down the middle.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2022
• Báez ripped a first-pitch curveball from Kelly to left field for a two-run double and a 6-2 lead.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2022
• Despite this curveball from the committee, the path is still very clear for the Trojans.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Martin Scorsese has the best curveball in the business.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• Starting in the mid-Nineties, Bullens’ life was tossed many curveballs.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• Life is going to throw you (and your business) some curveballs.
  — Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• That is, if its hardened electronics—shown in a late-breaking curveball to be more vulnerable than expected to Jupiter’s spacecraft-frying radiation—can survive the onslaught that awaits.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024