How to Use radar gun in a Sentence

radar gun

noun
  • At times, his speed got up to 100 miles per hour on the radar gun.
    Jill Martin, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The hard-throwing Greene can hit 101 mph on a radar gun.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • If there were no radar gun, there would have been no way to know.
    Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Kids who can break a radar gun but don’t know how to pitch are prized.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • That includes not having a radar gun at the start of spring.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Enter Email Sign Up The radar gun, once again, flashed at 99 m.p.h.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • A few weeks after that, the radar gun spit out a reading of 98 mph.
    Maria Torres, kansascity, 19 May 2018
  • Tapia, credited with a 101-mph pitch on the Saints' juicy radar gun, walked him in the third.
    Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • Hicks hit 105 mph on the radar gun twice, in a five-pitch at-bat against Odubel Herrera.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 23 May 2018
  • About six scouts showed up to watch, their iPads and radar guns at the ready behind home plate.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Romine topped out at 87 mph on the stadium's radar gun.
    USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Christian got video as Nathan lit up the radar gun, hitting 96 mph.
    Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2019
  • But teams rarely give up on pitchers who can hit triple digits on the radar gun.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Outfielders can’t just look at the radar gun and decide where to stand.
    Lee Judge special To The Star, kansascity, 1 May 2018
  • When the game started, the scouts moved to the seats directly behind home plate and raised their radar guns.
    Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • In one moment during his time in the minor leagues, Graterol hit 103.8 miles per hour on the radar gun.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Pitches that light up the radar gun at 97 and 98 mph really shouldn’t be able to move like this.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • That hardly fazed the right-hander, who came out firing and hit 102 mph on the radar gun in the first inning.
    Bob Huhn, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • Pitchers are difficult to project, even those who can hit mid-90s on the radar gun.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2020
  • When the radar gun kept popping up 92s and 93s last year, there was reason for concern.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Boyd didn’t light up the scouts’ radar guns — many of his 65 pitches were recorded under 80 m.p.h.
    Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Gose hit 100 mph on the radar gun with his second pitch, to Hunter Dozier to begin the fourth inning.
    Steve Herrick, ajc, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The officer held up a radar gun showing a speed of 89 mph, according to the video.
    Tina Burnside, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • His first fastball hit an impressive 90 miles per hour on the radar gun.
    Stephen Smith, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The radar gun, once the lone tool of measurement, now is to pitching what the abacus is to computing.
    Tom Verducci, SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • There was a time not too long ago when fans would cheer when the scoreboard radar gun registered 100 miles-per-hour for a pitch.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
  • Undersized, animated and topping out the radar gun in the high 80s, Romo was the kid of the group.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, amateur tinkerers have made radar guns that jam and drop them from the sky.
    Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The box scores were resplendent, but the radar gun told an even more satisfying story.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • Mizuhara usually recorded Ohtani’s throwing sessions on his phone or tracked his data with a pocket radar gun.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024

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