How to Use baller in a Sentence

baller

noun
  • To be a baller was the height of cool.
    — Dan Beck, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Watch the video to see a young tee baller putting on the style.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Those seats are for ballers only.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 4 June 2026
  • Newton was the true big baller in that duo.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2026
  • But, make no mistake, Acuff is a baller.
    — Kevin Sherrington mar. 19, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The baller was a gas to watch, and his plaid green outfit was cute as hell.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Calvet is a baller and won the tournament for them with some big hits.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 July 2018
  • But ultra-rich business ballers don't seem to mind taking it in the shorts.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Ulysses Bonaventura is a baller name!
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Small-market teams like the Kings are creeping up on the big ballers, though.
    — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Want to see World Cup soccer matches like a big baller?
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Lengthy, athletic, smart baller.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The baller jumped on stage to help his kids finish their walk, making the moment even sweeter.
    — Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Adding at least a few ballers here would go a long way for a unit that never could rely on the same group from game to game.
    — The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The primary fix here is to open up the melon and use a melon-baller to scoop out a bunch of the fruit.
    — M. Carrie Allan, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2017
  • For now, Johnson is used to being the undersized baller on the court.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2025
  • There’s the pregnant Kardashian being loved up by her baller boyfriend.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 11 Apr. 2018
  • But Roark, a sinker-baller, could thrive with the A’s defense playing behind him.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 31 July 2019
  • Two, discovering some baller that true soccer fans already know.
    — Marcus Thompson, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • Nothing could have prepared Sonequa Martin-Green for her new baller gig.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The famous gymnast dressed up as a fire, while her baller husband dressed as the firefighter coming to put her out.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Trinidad Chambliss is a baller, and overall the offense looks pretty good.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Fans have flooded the ex-baller's Instagram page with prayers, hearts and overall well wishes.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Mitchell Robinson was the kind of baller for the Knicks that Charles Oakley once was.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • Welcome to the baller, semi-painful world of Active Stretching.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • If and when Herro decides to play host at his new digs, the summer kitchen should come in clutch—something the baller knows a thing or two about.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
  • His brush with college stardom drew maturity questions, of course, but Pavia is a baller.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Don't sleep on French baller Elie Okobo, who can add a spark off the bench as a shooter and distributor.
    — azcentral, 25 June 2018
  • How 'hat trick' was coined in cricket In cricket, a hat trick refers to the dismissal of three batters by the same baller with three successive balls.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Props to the baller’s dad Ed Kelce who blabbed a few details to a local Cleveland, Ohio, station.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025

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