How to Use backstop in a Sentence

backstop

1 of 2 noun

• The pitch got past the catcher and rolled all the way to the backstop.
• The ball hit off Sam Huff’s glove and rolled to the backstop.
  — Dallas News, 13 July 2022
• Greene threw a wild pitch that went all the way to the backstop.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 10 July 2022
• Yet there was still a backstop, a way for the panic to end.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• At the end of August, the fencing for the field and backstop will be replaced.
  — Matt Leavitt, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• Aim at a safe backstop like a target, berm, or soft piece of ground, and shoot.
  — Anthony Licata, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• But the throw trickled off the catcher’s mitt and rolled to the backstop, scoring a pair and tying the game 2-2.
  — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• The ball caromed off the backstop and back between the home plate umpire’s legs.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2022
• The ball took an awkward hop to the backstop, though, allowing Curlis to reach.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 26 May 2023
• Although Moreno came up as a shortstop, the Blue Jays had signed him as a backstop.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• On a full count, a slider to Vimael Machin went to the backstop for a bases-loaded walk.
  — Janie McCauley, ajc, 26 Aug. 2022
• Sea Dogs backstop Nathan Hickey is next in line at No. 21.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• The Guardians backstop picked up his first hit and RBI of the season, snapping an 0-for-21 skid in the losing effort.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 17 Apr. 2022
• And, of course, defense is a backstop against the failure of deterrence.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2022
• The appetite to hire keeps providing a backstop as well.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 3 June 2022
• Automakers would serve as a backstop for the batteries that fall through the cracks.
  — Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
• The ex-Sabres backstop logged his second shutout since arriving as a free agent.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• New players who sign up and claim this offer will have access to a $1,000 backstop.
  — cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• In the latest case, the firm replaced the backstop agreement with the $8.9 billion settlement, J&J’s lawyers said.
  — Steven Church, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• The sir is in charge of updating the scoreboard, which is nothing more than numbers scribbled in chalk at the base of the backstop.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
• There’s the ballfield just north of Batesville, Indiana, with the chicken-wire backstop and the nuns buried nearby.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022
• Joe, her husband, is usually in his fold-up chair near the backstop.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• That could be a key part of the process, as the council could act as a backstop to the contract negotiations.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• The throw bounced between catcher Tyler Stephenson’s legs and rolled to the backstop, allowing a run to score on the error.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 July 2022
• As a backstop against delays, the House planned to pass a bill Wednesday keeping agencies afloat through March 15.
  — Alan Fram, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• The Eagles, on the way back to their cabin that evening, noticed that their rivals had attached a team flag to the backstop of the baseball field.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Bard’s next pitch dove into the dirt behind the batter, narrowly missing his heels, and rolled to the backstop.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Hansel Robles entered and threw his first pitch to Aaron Judge to the backstop, allowing Urshela to score.
  — Kyle Hightower, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• One of the best hitting catchers to play, Mauer became the first American League backstop to win a batting title.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• Assistant coach Taira Uematsu and Alec Burg, the bullpen catcher, have assumed those duties, with an assist from the head honcho who was once a backstop himself.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024

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backstop

2 of 2 verb

• Casali — in for a resting Posey — is the fifth catcher since at least 1900 to backstop a shutout in five straight starts.
  — Janie McCauley, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• None of them needed the Fed to backstop them that night, but the future was deeply uncertain.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Precisely how much salt is needed in the crust to backstop the caramel?
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• But the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 required an act of Congress to backstop uninsured deposits.
  — Stephen Miran, wsj.com, 10 May 2023
• Now, some of the world’s top investors are lining up to backstop his ambitions.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
• Banks find buyers for a company’s shares and backstop the stock price.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2021
• Plumlee could not help Friday but will be counted on to backstop Zubac as soon as the next game on Tuesday night.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• New York State could put in the same model to encourage the formation of such funds to backstop franchise loans.
  — Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• Dryden went on to backstop the Habs to six Stanley Cup titles in the ’70s, swatting down the Bruins four times along the playoff trail.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• Both starting goalies have been underachievers thus far, but Holtby is in the better form of late and will backstop the Caps to a home win.
  — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 29 Nov. 2019
• Boston Bruins Does Frederik Andersen have enough gas in the tank to backstop a two-month playoff run?
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• The 2014 Vezina Trophy winner as the league’s top goaltender is looking to backstop the Bruins to a third Cup final in six years.
  — Stephen Whyno, courant.com, 29 May 2021
• It's had the effect of sending stocks and bonds into the stratosphere, as it's become clear to investors that the Fed will now backstop a lot of fragile corporates.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 June 2020
• His second year with the team saw him backstop the Sharks to their first ever Stanley Cup Final appearance.
  — Brian Ricks, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
• The federal government has pledged to backstop deposits at both banks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• Fellow Nationals backstop Yan Gomes ducks his head to avoid getting hit on a backswing.
  — Matthew Gutierrez, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Saudi Arabia has led an effort to backstop oil prices with a series of production cuts.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 15 June 2023
• And Trump immediately fumed that the Fed was not doing enough to prop up markets and backstop the economy.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2020
• Without the government’s decision to backstop them all, many companies would have lost funds needed to meet payroll, pay bills, and keep the lights on.
  — Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Because such funds may include even riskier holdings, the Fed will backstop the purchases at a ratio of $1 to every $3 spent.
  — Rich Miller, Time, 10 Apr. 2020
• The most important is that not all people own a smartphone at all, much less multiple devices that can backstop each other if one is lost or stolen.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• The Swiss government agreed to effectively backstop the deal.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• The rest was intended to backstop state and local governments, ease the pain of job losses and pump money into pocketbooks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• The West’s willingness to backstop the Ukrainian military has, in fact, reduced Russia’s war aims.
  — Sam Greene, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2023
• But Trump has been having a hard time rallying other countries to backstop his push to impose new tariffs on Chinese goods.
  — Erica Werner, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• That is what happened in March, when the Federal Reserve stepped in to backstop the funds, which are normally considered safe by investors.
  — Andrew Ackerman and Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• So long as a euro area member chose the path of necessary but painful economic reforms, the bank stood ready to backstop government spending.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 July 2022
• The gains in the crypto market come in the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse and a rush by regulators to backstop deposits.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 14 Mar. 2023
• The economic rescue bill approved by the Senate early Thursday includes $425 billion that the Treasury could use to backstop the Fed.
  — Time, 26 Mar. 2020
• But it’s also showed the resilience of just our overall ability to backstop the financial system.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024