How to Use roundball in a Sentence

roundball

noun
  • The last 24 🎤 Rap and roundball.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That's a lot of early love for a state that doesn't always embrace roundball.
    — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 24 June 2017
  • Credit for not playing the roundball lottery and playing with some force on offense.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, FedEx got the call and this beautiful roundball—sans air—was shoved into a shoebox.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The answers are no and no, but this is Georgia, which cares less about the roundball sport than any other Power Five school.
    — Mark Bradley, ajc, 24 May 2017
  • Now in Red Sox crazy Boston, Barlow is locked into roundball and no longer has the baseball itch.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Our pigskin peninsula is quickly turning into a roundball republic!
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Cowboys have won the last four roundball titles, with Indian Hill sharing in 2016.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • His infinite roundball wisdom and never-compromise attitude proved to be the foundation on which the Warriors dynasty was built.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
  • Pictures of the exchange from Vatican Media show Francis smiling widely, his eyes joyful — even if roundball isn’t his favorite sport.
    — Diane Mastrull, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The game is played by Massachusetts Rules, a wide-open form of the sport commonly known as roundball and Amherst wins by reaching the pre-established score of 65 runs.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • The designers who crafted the sumptuous screening room at Brooklyn Crossing might consider second careers as college roundball coaches.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In an age of sports specialization, with elite young athletes being increasingly pushed to concentrate on just one craft, Darnold said putting down the pigskin in favor of the roundball every winter played a key role in his development.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
  • And on hand to serve as guide and pundit for the roundball action will be James Worthy, a member of the Hall of Fame in both college basketball and the NBA.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2026
  • If and when said Cinderella is eventually defeated and thus ousted from the tournament, it will be determined that the clock has struck midnight on the team, leaving behind little more than a shattered glass slipper and dreams of roundball royalty.
    — Jason Kurtz, CNN, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But the roundball tectonic plates began to shift one Saturday afternoon in February 1973 with what Thompson and many others consider the most famous game in Baltimore history.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024

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