How do you use Uppercut in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like blow, plus the exact meaning.
Uppercut meaning
- A swinging blow aimed upwards at the opponent's chin.
- A cut shot that sends the ball over the wicket-keeper's head.
Synonyms of Uppercut
Using Uppercut
- The main meaning on this page is: A swinging blow aimed upwards at the opponent's chin. | A cut shot that sends the ball over the wicket-keeper's head.
- Useful related words include: blow.
- In the example corpus, uppercut often appears in combinations such as: an uppercut, uppercut to, uppercut and.
Context around Uppercut
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 4 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Uppercut
- In this selection, "uppercut" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, citation, left, winning, snapmare and left stand out and add context to how "uppercut" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a diving uppercut to jones and a draping uppercut and big. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "uppercut" sits close to words such as albemarle, ald and allister, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with uppercut
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The better angle of the uppercut! (6 words)
Naimov lands an uppercut as they break. (7 words)
Charging uppercut, snapmare, step-up senton, tag back to Yim! (10 words)
The 31-year-old uppercut was the story of this bout, because he worked the body and the head with jabs, but when the opportunity presented itself, Joshua destroyed Pulev – an amazingly tough man – with a uppercut to floor the Bulgarian in the 9th round. (45 words)
Sha tagged in and hit a diving uppercut to Jones’ knee as the London duo looked to isolate Danny… but Levi gets distracted by Brendan, and that opened the door for the champions to come in with a pair of back sentons. (42 words)
As the ref got Amira back to the floor, Titus hit a low blow uppercut, then the Sweet Time Driver, but Amira pulled the ref from the ring before Titus could score the pin! (34 words)
As the ref got Amira back to the floor, Titus hit a low blow uppercut, then the Sweet Time Driver, but Amira pulled the ref from the ring before Titus could score the pin! (34 words)
Charging uppercut, snapmare, step-up senton, tag back to Yim! (10 words)
Smashing Rhodes into the announce desk a few times, back inside, Cody sidesteps a charge, back suplex, Dom lands on his feet, big uppercut for two! (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
The 31-year-old uppercut was the story of this bout, because he worked the body and the head with jabs, but when the opportunity presented itself, Joshua destroyed Pulev – an amazingly tough man – with a uppercut to floor the Bulgarian in the 9th round.
Ricardo Dominguez (left) throws an uppercut on Rafael Ortiz (right). citation * Uppercut – A vertical, rising punch thrown with the rear hand.
Aleem is very keen to land his left uppercut but Goodman is dealing with it well.
As the ref got Amira back to the floor, Titus hit a low blow uppercut, then the Sweet Time Driver, but Amira pulled the ref from the ring before Titus could score the pin!
Both men exchange blows back in the middle of the ring, with Claudio’s powerful uppercut winning out.
Charging uppercut, snapmare, step-up senton, tag back to Yim!
Christian avoided an uppercut but got cradled when he went for a Big Swing for two.
European Uppercut from Coffey, but he sets too early on a backdrop and eats a boot to the face.
He charges in on Bate in the corner, Bate with a kneelift and Euro uppercut from the second rope.
He rushes Lethal in the corner, hits a splash, huge uppercut to the seated Jay.
Indi hit Tiffany with a draping uppercut and big boot.
Naimov lands an uppercut as they break.
Saaiman misses an uppercut and Rodriguez lands a right hand counter.
Shami fights back with an uppercut to a rising ball outside the off stump but this is just gravy now.
Sha tagged in and hit a diving uppercut to Jones’ knee as the London duo looked to isolate Danny… but Levi gets distracted by Brendan, and that opened the door for the champions to come in with a pair of back sentons.
Smashing Rhodes into the announce desk a few times, back inside, Cody sidesteps a charge, back suplex, Dom lands on his feet, big uppercut for two!
Spence found himself on the deck once more in the seventh when a perfectly-timed uppercut left him on the seat of his pants.
The better angle of the uppercut!
Then he slipped in a low left to the belly followed quickly by a thunderous, well, hammer of an uppercut that connected directly with Borres’ nose.
They trade blows, Bill goes for a suplex but receives an uppercut.
Common combinations with uppercut
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an uppercut 24×
- uppercut to 12×
- uppercut and 9×
- uppercut from 8×
- european uppercut 6×
- uppercut but 5×
- uppercut on 4×
- huge uppercut 4×
- the uppercut 4×
- right uppercut 4×