How to Use handball in a Sentence

handball

noun

• The second came in the 33rd minute off a handball in the box.
  — Joseph Halm, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2021
• Some of the actual courts of play for the games, like handball courts, will have to be built.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al, 6 Mar. 2020
• When Penso stepped to the sideline to look at a video review of the handball, Puig grabbed the ball and stepped to the spot to wait.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• The group has been leasing the lots from the city for basketball and handball courts.
  — Victoria Kim, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
• Both victims were near the handball courts when they were shot.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• The handball call came after the Royals cleared two shots — one by Jong — off the back line.
  — Matt Massey, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• There is a track upstairs, a wrestling room, handball courts.
  — IndyStar, 2 Mar. 2021
• The match was leveled via Kara, who stepped up to the penalty spot after a handball to slot the ball home.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• Hall opened the scoring with a penalty kick in the 11th minute following a call of handball in the box.
  — Noel Harris, sacbee.com, 25 June 2017
• This was a lady who used to take all the children on the block outside to roller-skate and play handball.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
• The event was held on Pier 2, in a grand tent perched behind the basketball and handball courts.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2018
• The Colombian’s appeals for a handball fell on deaf ears.
  — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
• Zach Davis converted the first in the 28th minute after Lockport was called for a handball in the box.
  — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Missing out were the four handball and field hockey teams.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2020
• The penalty came on a handball awarded off of a corner kick.
  — Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 21 July 2024
• Later in the first half, they were whistled for a handball and Utah State was award a penalty kick.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• The thigh-length shorts worn by Norway's Olympic women's handball team?
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 27 July 2021
• That was just about the time the Loons pleaded for a handball call against a Dallas defender in the penalty box.
  — Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
• Germany didn't win a medal, but Gnad met his wife, a member of Germany's handball team, at the Barcelona Games.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
• The Guardians were the first onto the scoreboard, as Rowen Pierce drove the ball into the box and drew a handball from a Saxon defender.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2022
• Defender Aaron Herrera was called for a handball in the 28th minute when the ball appeared to bounce off his bicep in the box.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• The video assistant referee called a handball on the Union inside their box in the 75th minute.
  — Khobi Price, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• The replay showed Badji might have gotten away with a handball on the play anyway.
  — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 5 May 2018
• McKenzie gave away a ball early in the night that led to Mexico's first goal and later had a handball in the box.
  — Emily Leiker, USA TODAY, 17 July 2021
• Moorman’s penalty kick after an Oldham County handball in the box gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the 29th minute.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2017
• Still, there’s nothing like some shirtless handball to blow off some steam.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
• Centerback Tulu gave up a penalty in the 77th minute with a handball in his own box.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 19 June 2021
• The killings have been heartbreaking: a man on a handball court struck by a stray bullet, a one-year-old shot at a cookout.
  — John Pfaff, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
• In the 72nd minute, an inadvertent handball in the box by Conroe led to a penalty kick for the Mustangs.
  — Justin Maskulinski, Houston Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• Keep in mind, the best way to watch every single event that won’t make it into primetime coverage, such as archery, handball and judo, is by subscribing to Peacock.
  — Claire Franken, TVLine, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024