wicket

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Recent Examples of wicket The pitch, the strip in the center of the playing surface where the bowler faces the batter, can also be called the wicket, and a batter who is put out can be referred to as taking a wicket. Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 11 June 2025 Death rattle – The sound of the ball missing the bat and breaking the wicket. Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 11 June 2025 The last time the Chevrons came to play the long format in the United Kingdom, Jimmy Anderson took five wickets on debut as a callow 20-year-old with peroxide streaks. Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025 The Johnnies, notoriously secretive about their uniforms, made their entrance costumed as the tournament's grass croquet courts, complete with mini wickets, mallets, balls and clips. Tyrone Turner, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wicket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wicket
Noun
  • The setup at the 18th-century venue featured yachting décor with pink and green lattice, banquettes, and mahogany bars with light bites and cocktails.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 7 July 2025
  • Start with a repeating arrangement of points in space, called a lattice.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • It’s got a 56-inch opening when the side-facing double doors are spread and a separate walk-in entrance at the front.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 20 July 2025
  • Just beyond are more double doors with glass panes capped by a transom window.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Or maybe the professor failed to notice trapdoors in the locked boxes, and the student had an accomplice behind the scenes who was hastily solving problems and slipping the solutions into the right boxes before they got opened.
    Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2025
  • Lifting culture, too, has its trapdoors back into disordered thinking.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • According to Costa, a preliminary investigation found that the victim was delivering mail to the residence when a 5-year-old pit bull forced the storm door open and attacked him.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • Ralph rang the bell and when the door opened, Lester, who is white, fired a handgun at him through the glass of the storm door, per a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Medieval amenities include a moat, two watchtowers and two gates, a drawbridge, an underground cave (complete with a Jacuzzi!), trap doors, and a genuine portcullis (a metal-and-wood gate typically seen in medieval fortresses).
    Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 20 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • But every time this franchise doesn’t win the Cup, the revolving door at that spot since Nazem Kadri becomes an obvious talking point.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 15 May 2025
  • At the same time, the revolving door between activist nonprofits and government agencies is raising serious ethical and legal questions.
    Dan Eberhart, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025

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“Wicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wicket. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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