How to Use pinball in a Sentence

pinball

verb

• But that was just the start of Davos pinballing around Westeros.
  — Stephanie Merry, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Yet the line, which was Alabama -4 early in the week, has pinballed between -3 and -3.5.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 30 Nov. 2019
• So many more must content themselves with pinballing around the margins.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Another rebound goal put the Hurricanes ahead 2-1 as the puck pinballed to Hamilton for an easy shot into the short side of the net.
  — Ken Tysiac, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
• Manu Ginobili pinballed his way into the paint for a right-handed layup, then drove again to find LaMarcus Aldridge for a dunk.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
• Even if the initial option doesn’t score, the Timbers have been able to pinball shots and passes through the box to create messy — but effective — goals.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• On the previous play English caught a short pass and turned it into a 49-yard gain, pinballing and picking his way through throngs of defenders.
  — Nathan Cambridge, Burbank Leader, 30 Aug. 2019
• At 150 feet up, Harrington slipped and fell, pinballing off the rocks before finally being caught in her rope.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 30 Nov. 2019
• At one point, hysterical laughter breaks out, pinballing from tree to tree.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• Sione Takitaki has pinballed between the second and third unit this spring.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 6 June 2019
• However, the Danish defender was in an offside position when the ball - which was pinballing around the area - came off Bobadilla and fell to the right foot of Vestergaard.
  — SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• KPTV-12 last month followed one such truck on Germantown as the truck pinballed against the steep hillside and jutted into the oncoming travel lane.
  — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2019
• That seemed like a lifetime removed from the first steps Leo took on a football field as a young immigrant trying to pinball his way through American culture.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Jenny pinballed off their bodies, her flight suit buffering impacts, and burst outside.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Now that the rock is coasting in interplanetary space instead of pinballing around the Earth-moon system, its journey is more predictable.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
• Expect more of the same chaotic pinballing all the way through the end of the regular season because there are at least 12 teams in the Eastern Conference with a reasonable look at a playoff spot.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Everyone expected this one to be a shootout where points would pinball around the stadium scoreboards and tackles and third-down stops would be at a premium.
  — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
• Rollicking in the movie’s background is an economy pinballing into full tilt.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• The ball pinballed toward second base, but second baseman Logan Forsythe had already broken toward the hole.
  — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2016
• To be sure, pinballing from one crisis to the next is not unprecedented, particularly for a White House still finding its footing.
  — Jonathan Lemire, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
• Pedestrians pinballed off each other, past street vendors hawking incense and used CDs.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
• The Cameroonian kids, who have never been outside their country, were dizzy with excitement as word of their good fortune pinballed around their hilly neighborhood.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
• The conversation pinballs between tirades and black humour.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• LaBeouf spent most of his youth pinballing back and forth between the set of the Disney show that gave him his big break and the various 12 step programs of his father, a former professional clown and recovering heroin addict.
  — Emma Stefansky, HWD, 17 Mar. 2018
• Both sides see it as being in their interest to avert the alternative: A chaotic fall congressional session that could have pinballed from crisis to crisis.
  — Andrew Taylor, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019
• And at a school in Manhattan, a principal told me how accommodating children from nearby shelters caused her student roster to pinball up and down, and her teachers just had to adjust.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• The free-form narrative goes pinballing around such diverse areas as particle physics, Christian myth (those guides weren’t assigned to the trip by a commercial tour operator) and the perils of conformity.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• As Sarah Gibbens at National Geographic reports, in the first 10 million years of our planetary family, swarms of protoplanets composed of rock, dust and gas likely pinballed around the sun.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• The cinematography is luscious and the action sequences impressively staged, especially a massive brawl in which the camera becomes a kinetic player in the fray, pinballing dizzily around the room.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
• One moment Avenatti is pinballing among courtrooms across the country for high-stakes litigation, including last year's $454 million judgment in a surgical-gown fraud case, one of the largest in California history.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018

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