How to Use backspin in a Sentence

backspin

noun

• The backspin pop-ups landing behind the mound were just as many.
  — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026
• Murphy’s swing generates backspin to drive the ball out of the park.
  — Jake Lourim, Philly.com, 21 July 2017
• Thames revised his swing by focusing on a flat bat path that would give his hits more backspin.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• But things are finally starting to take a turn — or a backspin, as a pickler might say.
  — Anna Braz, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• Only the ball took off, perhaps with extra backspin, and scooted just out of his reach.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
• Their weapon was a pitch called the rise ball, which is thrown underhanded and with tremendous backspin.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Every shot, regardless of the golf club used, creates some backspin.
  — Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• That floats the ball high and then imparts enough backspin to stop the ball immediately.
  — Joe Didonato, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• His deep drive had enough backspin and carried well enough in the 67-degree sunshine to reach the bleachers.
  — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 22 June 2025
• Just like that a delicate backspin dropshot in tennis, which causes the ball to hover just over the net.
  — Hugh Hunt, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• Drop shots, loaded with backspin, are a weapon on clay, and retrieving them (or attempting to) means lots of sprints to the net.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• Gore’s fastball always has been elite because of a low release height and quality backspin.
  — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• Here are some of our favorite outdoor ice rinks, boasting the best backdrops for practicing your crossovers and backspins.
  — Raisa Bruner, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• However, the ball had some backspin after landing, and rolled harmlessly across the goal line.
  — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
• And mats tend to flip into the backspin orientation, the most stable option.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Barnes was particularly adept at hitting a ball with backspin or sidespin that would send it out of a fielder’s reach for a safe hit.
  — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• For players to hit home runs, the bat needs to make strong contact on the bottom half of the ball to give it the necessary backspin to clear the fence.
  — Kathryn Lundstrom, SI.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Last year, Vientos used his quick bat to get backspin on the ball, using the entire field with loud line drives to the gaps and over the walls and fences.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• Venus will not be retrograde a year after your wedding, since its backspins only take place every 18 months.
  — ELLE, 2 June 2023
• Saturn’s backspin in Pisces also coincides with this summer’s eclipses.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 10 July 2025
• Most pitchers throw hardest by holding their fastball across the seams, meaning all four seams backspin through the air on each revolution.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 23 June 2018
• Pluto in Capricorn activates the career sector of your chart, but its backspin has been leading to false starts.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Sep. 2017
• The forward arced a shot into the crossbar, forcing the ball to ricochet downwards with enough backspin to carom into the goal.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Instead, Sanchez overran it, misread the backspin and the ball dropped on the dirt behind the plate, resulting in his sixth error.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The Giants’ optimism is rooted in the direction the ball travels off his bat — in the air — with backspin that creates carry.
  — Henry Schulman, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• Black-D’Elia is a natural TV lead who is able to convey pain, angst or need with a backspin of optimism.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Jan. 2022
• The hip-hop dance style started on the streets of New York City with kids throwing down backspins and propeller kicks on makeshift cardboard dance floors.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2024
• But here, there’s neither the ironic backspin that can elevate a terrible joke nor an earnest commitment to really be about what the show purports to be about.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 July 2022
• The hazy frustration of brain fog has felt ever-present thanks to this planetary backspin, but Mercury retrograde ending will lift the clouds and clear our thoughts.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• The backspin and carry before the baseball hits the Green Monster or lands on Lansdowne Street is a sight to behold.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023