How to Use stickball in a Sentence

stickball

noun
  • Instead of in a baseball field, stickball is played in the city streets.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Veda’s days were filled with stickball, piano lessons and ballet.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • In our neighborhood, kids played stoop ball, hopscotch and stickball, with a broomstick.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Young kids played stickball on the concrete courtyards, while older ones loitered in packs on the corners.
    — Noah Remnick, New York Times, 30 June 2017
  • Rosen played stickball and youth baseball and dreamed of being a big leaguer despite not being that great a hitter.
    — Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • The league has adapted to playing stickball in the streets without having bases and manhole covers.
    — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Gertrude grew up on a farm with five brothers and one sister, climbing walnut trees, playing stickball and fishing for trout.
    — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The stickball league has a minimum age requirement of 53 and older for league games.
    — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Stickball games during a two-day event will reinforce a lesson about cheating and the appearance of the moon.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2017
  • But about an hour later, the kids separated into teams for a game resembling backyard stickball.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
  • The majority of league members grew up playing stickball in the five boroughs of New York.
    — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • His mother moved the family to Brooklyn, where the red-haired, blue-eyed Scully grew up playing stickball in the streets.
    — Beth Harris, Chron, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This text, also deep inside the dark zone, documents a ritually important game of stickball.
    — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022
  • The majority of league members played stickball while growing up in the five boroughs of New York City.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Ng's interest in baseball began while playing stickball in the street as a child growing up in Queens, New York.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 27 Sep. 2021
  • There was no stickball in the streets of San Francisco; when Mays bought a home in a white neighborhood, a brick was thrown through his front window.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
  • No horses, no bicycles, no gymnastics, no tree climbing, no leaping from barn windows into stacks of hay, no stickball, no tetherball, no relay races.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • While other kids gathered in the streets for pickup games of stickball and skelly, Doug, a big kid with thick glasses in dark plastic frames, preferred the company of books.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
  • Some of Mullin’s fondest memories are of playing roller hockey, stickball and boxball with Roddy on the street in front of their family’s small row house.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • As a child, Norman was quiet and obedient, too preoccupied with his studies to spend much time among the neighborhood bonditts, with their pranks and their passion for stickball.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Once upon a time in Brooklyn, kids played stickball in the street until dinnertime, mothers and grandmothers took chairs outside to chat, and all the families knew one another.
    — Cristina Costantini, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Oscar recalls one day as a kid playing stickball on his East Los Angeles street when the ball went into the street and he was nearly hit by a speeding car that left him lying on the ground.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • Valencia Reserve has won league championships in each sport, including golf, stickball, softball, bowling, tennis and pickleball.
    — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 18 June 2021
  • For example, many Native Americans played stickball, a lacrosse-like game in which players hurl a ball down a field, to settle disputes between tribes without resorting to violence.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The traditional stickball game can take three basic forms – the Iroqouian, Great Lakes, and Southeastern – which differ in equipment and stick-handling techniques.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Delray Beach resident Mike Levenar, for example, originally played stickball in Brooklyn and has been a part of the league for more than 12 years.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Decades later, the Little Italy neighborhood is home to annual stickball tournaments, including the one during Labor Day weekend.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The stickball tournament started in Little Italy but climbing costs don’t make things easy, said Joe Jennings, president of the local stickball organization.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • A number of Indigenous alumni quoted in the book say their next goal is to host a campus powwow, a colorful festival filled with Native drummers, traditional dancing, crafts, frybread, meat pies and Native games like stickball, which evolved into lacrosse.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025

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