How to Use haymaker in a Sentence

haymaker

noun

• He was knocked down by a haymaker to his jaw.
• Playoff baseball, both sides just kept coming with haymakers and big at-bats.
  — Homero De La Fuente, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• Both sides just kept coming with haymakers and big at-bats, big moments off of two really good bullpens.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• The San Diego Padres punched their playoff ticket after delivering a haymaker to their payroll.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• The Bucks’ haymaker came by way of a 21-0 run to end the third quarter.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The angle from which the video was shot obscures whether the haymaker thrown by Julio Urías struck his wife.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• Cullen can be seen in the video throwing haymakers through the window.
  — Chris Sims, USA TODAY Sports, 17 Oct. 2017
• Of course, the real haymaker of Finau’s round was his eagle on the turn.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
• That haymaker from the Blues finally woke the Wild up and late in the first period.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2017
• Until the Warriors hit them with the combo of haymakers late in the second.
  — Jim Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• Then, just as you’re getting settled, along comes the haymaker of Episode 6.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The center then got on his feet and threw a haymaker at Brown that seemed to connect with his helmet.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2022
• McCarty coldcocked him with a right-gloved haymaker to the right side of his head.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
• All night, each time St. Paul’s landed a punch, the Skippers countered with a haymaker of their own.
  — Jim Derry | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Burrow hit Edwards-Helaire for a 12-yard scoring pass on the next play that carried the weight of a haymaker.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019
• And if the solution includes a haymaker or two, so be it.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The Rams accepted the challenge, took a haymaker in the kisser but declined to fade away.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• The Sooners never landed the haymaker to knock out the Cyclones.
  — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 7 Oct. 2017
• The Aztecs could not punch them drunk, no matter how many haymakers landed.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
• Alankar believes a haymaker is bunching its fist and could strike at any time.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
• No, the 49ers threw a haymaker moving up to No. 3, so go for the knockout choice in Lance, with his wildly large upside.
  — Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021
• The hot shooting by the Wildcats was the equivalent of an early haymaker.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2022
• Then, after scoring three runs in the first inning, New York connected on a haymaker in the third.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
• Fifty-pound kettle bell swings and haymakers with a 30-pound cinder block and a TRX strap hooked up to a frozen swing set can make that much of a difference?
  — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2020
• The game featured more haymakers than a Rocky Balboa-Apollo Creed fight.
  — WSJ, 5 Feb. 2018
• But that’s becoming the trademark of this team – throw a last-minute haymaker to try to make up for long stretches of poor play during the first 30 minutes.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2020
• Throwing haymakers could be a two-way street, however, in the arena fast food built.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• While dos Anjos will want to stay upright and land haymakers, trying to work over Chiesa in a toe-to-toe battle, Chiesa will be trying to get him on the ground.
  — Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 24 Jan. 2020
• Then came a haymaker following the market close on April 19.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
• The Colts defensive line is supposed to throw that kind of punch, even if injury has taken away its haymaker.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024