punchball

How To Use punchball In A Sentence

• Just like Philammon struggling with his punchball is equivalent to ‘you would have thought he was Philammon struggling with his punchball’; and Rhetoric
• It gave onto a bathroom so big that there was a punchball set up in the middle. Maigret and the Informer
• 'The noble sport', as Uncle Vernon called it, had made Dudley even more formidable than he had seemed to Harry in their primary school days when he had served as Dudley's first punchball. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Punchball should be declared an Olympic event.
• Punchball is a sport similar to baseball but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat.
• Except for Eddie Rust and Steve Bartha, who lived on our block and occasionally joined us girls in punchball, Johnny was the first boy my age that I ever really talked to. Wait Till Next Year
• I was fortunate enough to learn the rules of baseball, or at least its street variants, punchball and stickball, as a very young child. Forbes.com: News
• I had a narrow escape from a meat cleaver, which landed in the bonnet of my car yards from my fingers and I suffered a fractured sternum when I was used as a punchball while trying to sort out a domestic dispute. Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover
• I come from the part of Brooklyn, N.Y., where girls played punchball or handball, unless they were fortunate enough to have someone pay for their tennis lessons.
• Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall. Last Words