How to Use deuce in a Sentence

deuce

1 of 2 noun
  • She beat her opponent after eight deuces.
  • Green answered Dunn’s free throws with a deuce and Leonard missed the ensuing triple.
    — Sam Gordon, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The Highlanders trailed by five points midway through the game before both teams battled for side-outs in a long deuce set.
    — Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 10 May 2026
  • Now, the implication here is that the mountain lion ripped a deuce on Dabney's guest house.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • The set was an emotional roller coaster with four deuces and eight service errors by the Highlanders.
    — Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 10 May 2026
  • There were deciding points at deuce, stars being substituted mid-match, players wearing shirts with names on their backs and no handshakes.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • The Lancers took the opening deuce set following Jean’s big serving run before a pair of hitting errors cost the Dons the set.
    — Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • High Point's Chase Johnston hit four massive triples — and one crucial, unexpected deuce — on Thursday that moved him up in the college record books.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Each match in the 2026 version will include four singles sets — two men’s and two women’s —with deciding points at deuce, followed by a mixed doubles tiebreak, played to 10 points.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • When down 0-30 in her next service game, Rybakina hit a quartet of aces to hold via deuce, the second two of which came after Świątek had battled to win a point to keep herself in the game.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Williams and Muchová had opportunities, with Routliffe and Olmos winning four out of four deciding points (played at deuce) on their own serve, but their strategic play was ultimately too consistent for Williams and Muchová to establish any real momentum.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Cole Caufield served notice that Team USA made a grave mistake leaving him off the Olympic team, but Morgan Geekie’s deuce trumped the brilliant Montreal Canadiens forward’s hat trick in the Bruins’ thrilling come-from-behind 4-3 win at TD Garden on Saturday night.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2026

deuce

2 of 2 verb
  • And that honey deuce wasn't the only thing sweet.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Shelton got to deuce with an overhead smash from the net and a backhand winner that caught Fritz going the wrong way.
    — ABC News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • But Kostyuk made three consecutive errors, letting Andreeva claw her way back to deuce.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 4 June 2026
  • On Fritz's last match point, Shelton converted a volley to get back to deuce and went on to hold serve with a backhand volley into the open court with both players at the net.
    — ABC News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The all-new X1 makes deucing in the woods more convenient than before with a telescopic body that lifts to residential-grade height and a dry flush system that auto-processes waste for easy disposal.
    — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025

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