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Knuckleball is an English word with synonyms like pitch or delivery. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Knuckleball in a sentence

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Knuckleball | Knuckleballer | Knuckleballs

Knuckleball meaning

  1. A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
  2. A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers.
  3. An event that is hard to predict.

Synonyms of Knuckleball

knuckler pitch delivery

Related words

Other words often associated with Knuckleball or its synonyms:

transfer slant conveyance nascence birth livery slope promotion transportation speech throw place

Using Knuckleball

  • The main meaning on this page is: A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air. | A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers. | An event that is hard to predict.
  • Useful related words include: knuckler, pitch, delivery.
  • In the example corpus, knuckleball often appears in combinations such as: the knuckleball.

Context around Knuckleball

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

special 1× wakefield 1× first 1×

Often after:

catcher 1× mitt 1× twice 1× pitcher 1×

Sentence patterns with Knuckleball

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a special knuckleball catcher who 1× by a knuckleball 1× gets the knuckleball to go 1× make a knuckleball so difficult 1× so the knuckleball was his 1× the first knuckleball pitcher to 1× threw his knuckleball twice in 1× throwing the knuckleball in the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

ball four my 1× he bowls a 1× he hit a 1× he threw his 1× in 2012 r 1× so the knuckleball 1×

Common sentence endings:

difficult to catch 2× and fifth innings 1× by a knuckleball 1× in right field 1× like a legbreak 1× pick it up 1×

Words around Knuckleball

Just before it in the word index:

knuckle 102 knuckey 3 knu 10 kntv 4 knt 4 knsl 9

Just after it in the word index:

knuckleballer 3 knuckleballs 2 knucklebones 2 knuckled 14 knuckleduster 8 knuckledusters 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 12 abacos 12 abboud 12 abcon 12 abdelhamid 12 abdelkader 12

Corpus analysis for Knuckleball

  • In this selection, "knuckleball" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, special, wakefield, first, catcher, mitt and twice stand out and add context to how "knuckleball" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a special knuckleball catcher who and by a knuckleball. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "knuckleball" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with knuckleball

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Major Leagues. (14 words)

They’re facing right-hander Matt Waldron, whose pitching arsenal is headlined by a knuckleball. (15 words)

The physics that make a knuckleball so difficult to hit make it similarly difficult to catch. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

He bowls a slew of them in an over, and in addition to the (conventional!) knuckle ball that dips and goes straight, he occasionally lowers the arm and gets the knuckleball to go break away like a legbreak. (38 words)

While teams with a knuckleballer on their pitching staff often employ a special "knuckleball catcher" who is equipped with a knuckleball mitt, similar to a first baseman's glove, it is still extremely difficult to catch. (36 words)

So the knuckleball was his way of trying to tire me out, ’cause I didn’t want to have to catch it — it’d go by me and I’d have to go pick it up. (36 words)

Example sentences (9)

While teams with a knuckleballer on their pitching staff often employ a special "knuckleball catcher" who is equipped with a knuckleball mitt, similar to a first baseman's glove, it is still extremely difficult to catch.

He threw his knuckleball twice in the first inning and then not again until he threw it 11 times between the fourth and fifth innings.

So the knuckleball was his way of trying to tire me out, ’cause I didn’t want to have to catch it — it’d go by me and I’d have to go pick it up.

They’re facing right-hander Matt Waldron, whose pitching arsenal is headlined by a knuckleball.

He bowls a slew of them in an over, and in addition to the (conventional!) knuckle ball that dips and goes straight, he occasionally lowers the arm and gets the knuckleball to go break away like a legbreak.

Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Major Leagues.

He hit a Tim Wakefield knuckleball just over the low fence into the Giant's bullpen in right field.

In 2012, R.A. Dickey became the first knuckleball pitcher to win the award. citation In 1974, Mike Marshall won the award, becoming the first relief pitcher to win the award.

The physics that make a knuckleball so difficult to hit make it similarly difficult to catch.

Common combinations with knuckleball

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "knuckleball" in a sentence?
An example: "While teams with a knuckleballer on their pitching staff often employ a special "knuckleball catcher" who is equipped with a knuckleball mitt, similar to a first baseman's glove, it is still extremely difficult to catch." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "knuckleball" from authentic English texts.
What does "knuckleball" mean?
Knuckleball means: A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
What are synonyms of "knuckleball"?
Common synonyms of "knuckleball" include: knuckler, pitch, delivery.
How many example sentences with "knuckleball" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "knuckleball", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.