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
• Richards’s curveball ranked at the top of the league in spin.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2021
• The third week This week came with a bit of a curveball.
  — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 7 Mar. 2025
• His first pitch was a curveball that bounced in the dirt.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
• On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, Miller threw a curveball at 80.4 mph at the bottom of the zone.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
• 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
• But, like many of their pitchers over the years, the Keys had a good curveball.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• More of those curveballs Neville talked about loom on the horizon.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Farmer was called out on strikes, frozen by a curveball.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2021
• That seems to me to set up for a curveball or two early.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• How Cole Kmet hit a curveball in the Chicago Bears’ blowout win.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Joseph said the triple came on a second curveball thrown his way.
  — James Peters, baltimoresun.com, 27 June 2021
• With one flick of the wrist, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached for a full-count curveball over the outer edge of the plate.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• In the first inning, Stephenson hit a first pitch curveball to drive in a run.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
• Ray didn’t throw any curveballs against the A’s, but confirmed that the breaking ball will still be part of the mix.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
• But baseball can be a fickle game, and the fates can spin faster than the best curveball.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2021
• Janet Dunne made peace a long time ago with the awful curveball life threw her in 1968.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Clay Holmes entered and hit Max Muncy with a 2-0 curveball.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
• In a 0-2 count, Moustakas pulled a 77-mph curveball over the right-field wall for a solo homer.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021