Words similar to fastball

Example sentences for: fastball

How can you use “fastball” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He was tossing back a weak, hanging slider and demanding a fastball so he could hit it harder.
He got all of a 97-mph fastball, and launched it at 105 mph in the general direction of Canada.
Catching pioneer and Hall of Famer Roger Bresnahan invented the shinguards and the helmet just after the turn of the century, when he got tired of getting whonked constantly--at one point some writers in New York City reported that Bresnahan had died after a particularly vicious fastball off his noggin.
An Oct. 4 Time article about Jim Morris, a 35-year-old rookie for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, quotes a baseball scout saying he was "bumfuzzled " when he saw Morris' 98 mph fastball.
It is, of course, ubiquitous in the world of sport ("even though Irabu never displayed his overhyped 99-mph fastball"), of fashion ("Tommy Hilfiger, the overhyped American designer"), of trade ("overhyped and overmarketed product"), and of celebrity in general ("a brief and, she says, overhyped liaison with John F. Kennedy Jr."), but it has filtered down to unimaginable levels, much as a grande caffè latte can now be had in the coal fields of West Virginia.