The Belarusian eventually won the set with a backhand winner, then won three of the first four games in the next set.—Varun Shankar, Washington Post, 31 July 2024 And the best players of today—Alcaraz, Sinner, Novak, Rafa Nadal—have incredible, sick backhands.—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 29 July 2024
Adjective
The Winterhawks don’t get back as a give-and-go between Korchinski and Schaefer in the neutral zone creates a 2-on-1, and Korchinski quickly makes a backhand feed to Crnkovic in front.—Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2022 Dalton, who has four game-winning goals this season, beat Quinnipiac goalie Logan Angers with a backhand shot 11:42, then Emma Seitz scores from point-blank range from in front of the right circle at 16:21.—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2023
Adverb
Radulov showed backhand before pulling it to his forehand and slipping the puck past Linus Ullmark.—Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2022 When one last backhand by Nadal found the net, Tiafoe put his hands on his head.—Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
Verb
The second baseman, picked off earlier in the game, tried to backhand a ball that didn’t need to be backhanded, leading to the Padres’ first baserunner of the inning.—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024 That was on display again in Boston, charging to make a diving catch, and in Philadelphia, chasing down a deep fly ball and backhanding it with his glove.—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for backhand
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