How do you use Doubleheader in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like game, plus the exact meaning.
Doubleheader meaning
Alternative form of double-header.
Synonyms of Doubleheader
Using Doubleheader
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of double-header.
- Useful related words include: twin bill, double feature, game.
- In the example corpus, doubleheader often appears in combinations such as: the doubleheader, of doubleheader, doubleheader against.
Context around Doubleheader
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doubleheader
- In this selection, "doubleheader" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, split, thursday, symphonic, monday, friday and assuming stand out and add context to how "doubleheader" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a split doubleheader on aug and a split doubleheader with the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doubleheader" sits close to words such as adherents, admirers and agitated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doubleheader
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Derek also said his grandfather once pitched both games of a doubleheader. (12 words)
Butler won both matches in the doubleheader in the Butler Bubble on Saturday. (13 words)
Baseball-Thursday doubleheader and the if necessary game would be Saturday at 1 p.m. (15 words)
The rainout Sunday will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Aug. 25. Baltimore and New York also will play a doubleheader at Camden Yards on July 9 as a result of Thursday’s postponement. (38 words)
Colorado Mesa's Julian Boyd hit a walk-off two-run home run Sunday to lift the Mavericks to an 11-9 victory over Metro State in the first game of a doubleheader split at The Diamond. (37 words)
Senior right-hander Bryan Pazulski came on in relief of Mestre, firing two hitless innings with two strikeouts to collect the save and seal game one of the doubleheader for New Haven with a 4-1 win. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The rainout Sunday will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Aug. 25. Baltimore and New York also will play a doubleheader at Camden Yards on July 9 as a result of Thursday’s postponement.
A day earlier, Ohtani left the second game of a doubleheader at Detroit because of cramps.
Atlanta appears to be reserving two of its better starters, Charlie Morton and Spencer Strider, for a doubleheader Monday against Philadelphia.
Baseball-Thursday doubleheader and the if necessary game would be Saturday at 1 p.m.
Battle Mountain opened its season with a tough loss on Thursday against Durango and is still searching for a win after two more defeats in a doubleheader Friday against Liberty and Salida.
Blomstedt is booked to conduct the CSO again this time next year, in a symphonic doubleheader of Beethoven 7 and Schubert’s Sixth Symphony.
Boone said Luis Severino will start the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader, assuming those games are played against the White Sox.
Both teams had to get creative with their pitching to manage the doubleheader, which was made necessary by a rainout at Cincinnati in April.
Butler won both matches in the doubleheader in the Butler Bubble on Saturday.
Carlos Rodon, who allowed one run in five innings, picked up the victory in the Yankees’ 4-1 win over the Red Sox in Game 2, recording a doubleheader sweep.
Colorado Mesa's Julian Boyd hit a walk-off two-run home run Sunday to lift the Mavericks to an 11-9 victory over Metro State in the first game of a doubleheader split at The Diamond.
Continuing their seven-game series, the and the Curve will play a doubleheader, with the first pitch of the opening game set for 4:30 p.m.
Derek also said his grandfather once pitched both games of a doubleheader.
It will be made up Saturday night at 6:15 p.m. as the finale of a split doubleheader, with the first game set to begin as originally planned at 1:15 p.m.
League season resumed following several cancellations due to inclement weather, and a total of 40 goals were scored in a doubleheader at the PCC Hockey Rink.
Oakland City posted a 1-0 win in the opening game of the doubleheader, pushing across a run in the seventh inning without the aid of a basehit.
Over the course of just 16 innings during the Saturday doubleheader, the Violets allowed 25 runners to score.
Senior right-hander Bryan Pazulski came on in relief of Mestre, firing two hitless innings with two strikeouts to collect the save and seal game one of the doubleheader for New Haven with a 4-1 win.
Sevastopol’s softball team won both games of Friday’s Packerland Conference doubleheader at Kewaunee.
Sherriff also pitched a combined two innings with 42 pitches across both games of the doubleheader and likely would not have been available Sunday, and Rodriguez felt his shoulder issue while warming up for the second game.
Common combinations with doubleheader
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the doubleheader 29×
- of doubleheader 25×
- doubleheader against 24×
- doubleheader on 22×
- in doubleheader 14×
- doubleheader with 13×
- doubleheader at 12×
- doubleheader in 10×
- with doubleheader 10×
- doubleheader the 7×