How to Use stickball in a Sentence

stickball

noun

• Instead of in a baseball field, stickball is played in the city streets.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• Young kids played stickball on the concrete courtyards, while older ones loitered in packs on the corners.
  — Noah Remnick, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• His mother moved the family to Brooklyn, where the red-haired, blue-eyed Scully grew up playing stickball in the streets.
  — Beth Harris, Chron, 3 Aug. 2022
• His mother moved the family to Brooklyn, where the red-haired, blue-eyed Mr. Scully grew up playing stickball in the streets.
  — Beth Harris, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2022
• The stickball league has a minimum age requirement of 53 and older for league games.
  — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• The league has adapted to playing stickball in the streets without having bases and manhole covers.
  — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The majority of league members played stickball while growing up in the five boroughs of New York City.
  — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022
• The majority of league members grew up playing stickball in the five boroughs of New York.
  — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• In our neighborhood, kids played stoop ball, hopscotch and stickball, with a broomstick.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• Stickball games during a two-day event will reinforce a lesson about cheating and the appearance of the moon.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2017
• Rosen played stickball and youth baseball and dreamed of being a big leaguer despite not being that great a hitter.
  — Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
• Ng's interest in baseball began while playing stickball in the street as a child growing up in Queens, New York.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 27 Sep. 2021
• Gertrude grew up on a farm with five brothers and one sister, climbing walnut trees, playing stickball and fishing for trout.
  — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Some of Mullin’s fondest memories are of playing roller hockey, stickball and boxball with Roddy on the street in front of their family’s small row house.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• While other kids gathered in the streets for pickup games of stickball and skelly, Doug, a big kid with thick glasses in dark plastic frames, preferred the company of books.
  — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
• Delray Beach resident Mike Levenar, for example, originally played stickball in Brooklyn and has been a part of the league for more than 12 years.
  — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022
• The traditional stickball game can take three basic forms – the Iroqouian, Great Lakes, and Southeastern – which differ in equipment and stick-handling techniques.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2022
• Once upon a time in Brooklyn, kids played stickball in the street until dinnertime, mothers and grandmothers took chairs outside to chat, and all the families knew one another.
  — Cristina Costantini, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• As a child, Norman was quiet and obedient, too preoccupied with his studies to spend much time among the neighborhood bonditts, with their pranks and their passion for stickball.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• This text, also deep inside the dark zone, documents a ritually important game of stickball.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022
• And just women's sports in general: Soccer, volleyball, stickball.
  — Nina Mandell, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• Fann grew up in an integrated neighborhood in Macon, Georgia, and saw Black and White children getting along and often playing stickball together.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• Decades later, the Little Italy neighborhood is home to annual stickball tournaments, including the one during Labor Day weekend.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• Valencia Reserve has won league championships in each sport, including golf, stickball, softball, bowling, tennis and pickleball.
  — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 18 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024