How to Use underhand in a Sentence

underhand

adjective

• The game starts with an underhand serve cross court.
  — Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
• Hang with your chin above the bar and bend your arms with a strong underhand grip.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 13 Mar. 2024
• The most underhand way women are erased is by the passive voice.
  — Anna Funder, Time, 6 May 2025
• Hold a light dumbbell of 1 to 5 pounds in each hand with an underhand grip.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
• Jeff Bridges First, the mitt on his head … then, a fake-out underhand throw.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
• Barry is a slasher who can get to the foul line and make his underhand free throws, just like his dad.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 25 June 2024
• Grip the bar with an underhand grip, palms facing you, and your hands just wider than shoulder-width apart.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024
• The inmate seems to show his butt to the group one more time, and did an underhand slapping motion.
  — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2025
• Brown popped to his feet after being tackled with a quick dance move and an underhand signal for a first down.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
• The Cougars’ quarterback tried to make an underhand pass for the touchdown.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The angle of the main handle felt a little steep and hard to maneuver underhand when tossing food.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• For the underhand chop, athletes stand on little flat spots on horizontal logs.
  — Maayan Silver, NPR, 25 July 2025
• The Bruins weren’t just tossing underhand lobs in the first period for the Sabres to jack out of the park.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• In this case, that will be for eight hours every day — as spreadsheets are suddenly made more palatable thanks to its underhand plushness.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
• Humans were seen tossing balls underhand or stepping up to test batting responses.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
• One of the videos showed Stevens flipping an underhand pass to Tatum, who then drove past two assistant coaches for a dunk.
  — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
• There is something rather underhand about trying to spy on an opponent’s preparation.
  — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
• The rest of those underhand shots resulted in misses while six of her makes on a 7-for-16 shooting night came off overhand layups.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
• The reason this is important is that permission is being obtained in an underhand way—in effect being tricked out of us.
  — Mark Dixon, Fortune, 24 May 2018
• The seated underhand pass uses isometric holds to promote core strength and stability.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 2 June 2024
• Softball has a bigger ball and underhand pitching, as well as a smaller diamond, a closer fence, and a different style of play that is both faster and simpler.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025
• Baseball pitchers throw the ball overhand, whereas softball pitchers have an underhand delivery.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
• The game needs to help the bowlers more because the imbalance between bat and ball is one reason why bowlers and fielders have felt the need to alter the condition of the ball in an underhand way.
  — Nick Compton, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
• The conventional thought is that the windmill, underhand softball pitching motion creates less stress than throwing a baseball.
  — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
• As most players stopped when Otton’s underhand toss floated to the ground, Jackson scooped it up without hesitation.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Makita’s practically underhand release is unlike any pitcher presently in the majors and few ever.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
• Embiid's three baskets during that stretch included an 18-foot jumper, a 3-pointer and a thunderous dunk after his underhand scoop off the glass.
  — Dick Scanlon, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
• Most of the questions and comments were softballs lobbed up for players to hit on their preferred themes — like Frannie's underhand home-run pitch to Carolyn on playing with emotion.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• The skirt has a slightly different composition, harnessing silk and modal fabric for an especially baby-soft underhand feel.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• With a smaller playing area (about one-quarter the size of a tennis court), lighter wiffle balls and paddles, and underhand serves, pickleball is low impact and approachable for athletes of all levels.
  — Outside Online, 29 July 2024