How to Use ping-pong in a Sentence

ping-pong

1 of 2 verb
  • For now, let’s get back to ping-pong.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Ready to jump into the world of ping-pong?
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There was no pool table or ping-pong to be found.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
  • An amazing movie about … ping-pong?
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Then the ping-pong balls will take center stage at the lottery.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Yes, ping-pong … table tennis for you hoity-toity types.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The thing is, most small talk feels like a polite but boring game of ping-pong.
    — Maya Rossignac-Milon erica Boothby, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • At twice the speed of sound, the ping-pong ball punches a hole straight through the paddle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
  • Sheen challenged Simpson to a ping-pong match.
    — Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The teen club has video games, ping-pong, billiards, and a cinema.
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Wind gusts could reach as high as 70 mph with the potential for ping-pong-sized hail.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Even Marty Supreme, do people not even know that’s about ping-pong?
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Tommy ping-pongs from crisis to crisis, taking the chaos in stride.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
  • These balls may look like slightly oversized ping-pong balls from your perspective on the ground.
    — Rui Bo, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
  • Pickleball is a sport that blends tennis, badminton and ping-pong.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • To test if the mixture will hold together, squeeze a ping-pong-ball-sized portion in your fist.
    — Sheela Prakash, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 June 2026
  • Those on the call ping-pong comments without seemingly missing a beat.
    — Bill Flederbach, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • With an emphasis on games, there’s also an indoor ping-pong room and a bocce court outside.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2025
  • He gets chased by cops, swindles the wrong ping-pong goobers and becomes embroiled in a canine extortion scheme.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, no one ping-pong tournament is keeping employees from leaving.
    — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • The process itself involves 14 ping-pong balls, each with a number from 1-14.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • It’s shot in a field at dusk, there are people in all black outfits with giant orange ping-pong balls for heads playing table tennis.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Their banter, dotted with frequent arguments, is a kind of ping-pong poetry.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Kids will love the activities, playground, refreshing pool, ping-pong, and kids-only pool with lounge chairs.
    — Chelsea Adams, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • Superficial perks like ping-pong tables or fancy snacks do little to make workers happy over time.
    — Susan Caminiti, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The ping-pong biopic lit up the holiday box office and now looks on course to become the studio’s highest-grossing film ever.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Marty Supreme centers on a young man determined to make his mark in competitive ping-pong.
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Going back to the billiard ball analogy, imagine replacing the billiard balls with bowling balls and the cue ball with a ping-pong ball.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The ping-pong balls have spoken, and the Hawks are sitting on the eighth overall pick in next month’s NBA draft.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 13 May 2026
  • And so the film trails off between various plot points, each given equal importance as Lucila ping-pongs between them.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 May 2026

ping-pong

2 of 2 noun
  • There was a ping-pong table in the room.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Think of it as an Aaron Sorkin ping-pong shot.
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • My ordeal started out as a moose hunt that promised to be about as dangerous as a game of ping-pong.
    — Elwyn "bud" Myers, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Keep your budding tennis star engaged for hours on end with this portable ping-pong set.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But pickleball, that cult-like cross between tennis, ping-pong and badminton?
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Marty Mauser wants to be the greatest ping-pong player on Earth.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Spalding brought his grandfather’s ping-pong table to the volleyball room at school for more fun.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Over the course of the four-day event, the fair will host ping-pong tournaments, and at the end, the tables will be sold in a silent auction.
    — Charlie Vargas, Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The pool table can also be used as a ping-pong table or even another table, if needed.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In other words, winning is costing Brooklyn position in the race for ping-pong balls.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Cutting up the Foley ping-pong and handing it over to the edit team might have been an end to it on another movie.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The sounds of ping-pong balls bouncing and bags hitting cornhole boards will reverberate throughout the halls.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The members of the Everglades coalition, versed in ping-pong, were now playing tennis.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Players use a paddle, similar to a ping-pong paddle, to attempt to hit the ball past the opposing team.
    — Dominick Williams march 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The ping-pong of events underscores how volatile the redistricting battle has become in recent weeks.
    — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, the hybrid of tennis, badminton and ping-pong, where the balls make a popping sound that fans love and foes loathe, is pushing old-school golf into the rough.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Because the most valuable asset in the NBA right now isn’t those extra lottery ping-pong balls.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Radars indicated tornado-like rotation and ping-pong ball-sized hail.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The ping-pong table was never neutral territory.
    — Gali Kronenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Frequently Asked Questions Think of the sport as a mash-up of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023
  • An early version of the best dessert in the house was a great-tasting but untidy wet block of orange cake the size of a solitaire deck with a ping-pong scoop of chocolate ice cream.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In her scenes with each of them, Hedda’s motivations feel murky as she ping-pongs between flirtation, disgust, fear and anger.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Beyond the lion-roaring ping-pong balls, though, there’s another key sequence where Lievsay and the sound team had an animal to track.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Between the at-home spa, music studio and lounge (complete with ping-pong table), there are plenty of places to hang out on the secluded property.
    — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
  • What followed was like a ping-pong ball crossing back and forth over the net, representing lawsuits and countersuits between deed holders and non-holders.
    — Dave Lieber feb. 25, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The Oscar-winning actress later simulated shooting a ping-pong ball out of herself.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Seager is itching to play ping-pong in the middle of the clubhouse on the fancy table the Rangers installed this spring to help promote group activity.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The team’s ping-pong tournament, an exercise in team bonding, was switched from singles to doubles - at Seager’s suggestion.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • However, building a mentally resilient, happy workforce goes far beyond perks packaged up in the form of office yoga and ping-pong tables.
    — Michel André, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a tremendous sweetness to the film and its central relationships, but the banter ping-pongs swiftly between the intimate and the darkly absurd.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026

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