How to Use backspin in a Sentence

backspin

noun

• Murphy’s swing generates backspin to drive the ball out of the park.
  — Jake Lourim, Philly.com, 21 July 2017
• Outside of the foot, backspin, into the far-side netting.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 1 July 2018
• For players to hit home runs, the bat needs to make strong contact on the bottom half of the ball to give it the necessary backspin to clear the fence.
  — Kathryn Lundstrom, SI.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• The icing on the cake was the little details that matter: the follow through, the curling down of fingers, the backspin, the holding of the follow through — and of course, the swish.
  — Mirin Fader, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2017
• Their weapon was a pitch called the rise ball, which is thrown underhanded and with tremendous backspin.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Only the ball took off, perhaps with extra backspin, and scooted just out of his reach.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
• But things are finally starting to take a turn — or a backspin, as a pickler might say.
  — Anna Braz, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• That floats the ball high and then imparts enough backspin to stop the ball immediately.
  — Joe Didonato, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Drop shots, loaded with backspin, are a weapon on clay, and retrieving them (or attempting to) means lots of sprints to the net.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• Thames revised his swing by focusing on a flat bat path that would give his hits more backspin.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• Instead, Sanchez overran it, misread the backspin and the ball dropped on the dirt behind the plate, resulting in his sixth error.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• Just like that a delicate backspin dropshot in tennis, which causes the ball to hover just over the net.
  — Hugh Hunt, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• Black-D’Elia is a natural TV lead who is able to convey pain, angst or need with a backspin of optimism.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Jan. 2022
• Every shot, regardless of the golf club used, creates some backspin.
  — Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• And mats tend to flip into the backspin orientation, the most stable option.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Here are some of our favorite outdoor ice rinks, boasting the best backdrops for practicing your crossovers and backspins.
  — Raisa Bruner, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• The forward arced a shot into the crossbar, forcing the ball to ricochet downwards with enough backspin to carom into the goal.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The Giants’ optimism is rooted in the direction the ball travels off his bat — in the air — with backspin that creates carry.
  — Henry Schulman, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• Pluto in Capricorn activates the career sector of your chart, but its backspin has been leading to false starts.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Sep. 2017
• Venus will not be retrograde a year after your wedding, since its backspins only take place every 18 months.
  — ELLE, 2 June 2023
• Most pitchers throw hardest by holding their fastball across the seams, meaning all four seams backspin through the air on each revolution.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 23 June 2018
• But here, there’s neither the ironic backspin that can elevate a terrible joke nor an earnest commitment to really be about what the show purports to be about.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 July 2022
• Halfway through Sunday afternoon’s workout — and not for the first time this summer camp — Greene took batting practice, spraying baseballs with backspin around the field.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2020
• And due to his arm slot and ability to spin the ball, Bautista’s fastball has much less vertical drop, while Fujinami’s moves more horizontally but has much less backspin.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
• Though many of us associate cosmic backspins with Mercury, the planet of communication, all planets go retrograde.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 May 2018
• Complicating matters, intensifier Mars is now in a tricky retrograde backspin (from October 30 to January 12), reversing through Gemini and your tenth house of future plans and goals.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• Watching this show is reminiscent of reading social media, where a backspin of attitude is often expected to convert a bland statement of good values into something actually funny or trenchant.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
• While Mercury’s reversal has been causing communication mishaps, Mars’s backspin has been causing serious slowdowns.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 July 2018

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024