Wondering how to use Googly in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as bosie or bowling.
Googly meaning
A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
Using Googly
- The main meaning on this page is: A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
- Useful related words include: wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball, bowling.
- In the example corpus, googly often appears in combinations such as: googly eyes, the googly, googly and.
Context around Googly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Googly
- In this selection, "googly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spin, fingers, buying, eyes, eyed and too stand out and add context to how "googly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 30 other googly eye enthusiasts and a classic googly that beats. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "googly" sits close to words such as aditi, aegon and aerobics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with googly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Next, we’re going to add our googly eyes. (9 words)
He has the leg-spin, googly and the top spinner. (10 words)
The googly now, bowled outside off, Babar Azam keeps it out. (11 words)
It’s a garish movie with some flairs of visual wit—I love the googly-eyed bugs and sentient plants, animated to look like they’re made of felt—that is really more about the Bergens than it is about the trolls. (42 words)
In particular, Danielle Raymo passing out googly eyes to the audience; the banter between Peter Doyle and Ajamu Brooks; and in perhaps the most moving act of the evening, the trio of Stephanie Roosa, Shawnda Urie, and Adryanna Elmendorf. (39 words)
The ball that flummoxed Ashwin could have been a surface-aided natural variation тАФ the grip and release suggested a googly тАФ but it could have been intentional too, as the ball slithered straight on after pitching. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
At any other pre-Oscar party in any other year, it would have been hard to make sense of a partygoer with googly eyes applied to her face.
He has the leg-spin, googly and the top spinner.
In particular, Danielle Raymo passing out googly eyes to the audience; the banter between Peter Doyle and Ajamu Brooks; and in perhaps the most moving act of the evening, the trio of Stephanie Roosa, Shawnda Urie, and Adryanna Elmendorf.
On the pitch, Dhoni to his horror, found out that Rashid could bowl a split-fingers googly too.
Sharad Pawar spoke of throwing a “googly” on Fadnavis over the 2019 hush-hush swearing in ceremony.
Stick to it, but donтАЩt be afraid to throw in a googly and adapt when the situation demands,” Bindra wrote.
The ball that flummoxed Ashwin could have been a surface-aided natural variation тАФ the grip and release suggested a googly тАФ but it could have been intentional too, as the ball slithered straight on after pitching.
Cue weekends covered in glue and paint, panic-buying googly eyes and dealing with mini meltdowns as your child’s potato Paddington does not even vaguely resemble reality.
His last ball is a classic googly that beats the outside edge and leads to a stumping referral.
In April, Arielle Lok and about 30 other googly eye enthusiasts asked the city's transit authority to add google eyes to their trains — and they obliged.
People in Central Minnesota generally love Mr. Twisty, and of course the googly eyes that they put on their cones.
The googly now, bowled outside off, Babar Azam keeps it out.
This growing maturity will come under the microscope in Bloemfontein, where more than one googly is expected.
To be honest, we hoped the voice assistant bit would be markedly different from other offerings, but ends up looking (and sounding) like a standard LLM chatbot with googly eyes.
We’ve seen them make googly eyes at each other during games before, and he’s been playing well the past few weeks.
His googly or the ‘doosra’ flummoxed plenty of batsmen and soon, Ajmal was translating his white-ball success into the Test arena.
It’s a garish movie with some flairs of visual wit—I love the googly-eyed bugs and sentient plants, animated to look like they’re made of felt—that is really more about the Bergens than it is about the trolls.
Next, we’re going to add our googly eyes.
The group was paying homage to Gritty, the hairy, googly-eyed mascot of hockey’s Philadelphia Flyers that is orange all over, face included.
Three balls later he fell for the Bishnoi googly and holed out to Kartik Tyagi at midwicket.
Common combinations with googly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- googly eyes 11×
- the googly 9×
- googly and 5×
- of googly 3×
- googly is 3×
- with googly 2×
- other googly 2×
- googly or 2×