How to Use shuttlecock in a Sentence

shuttlecock

noun
Definition of shuttlecocknext
  • This kit includes steel poles, a net, and racquets for four, so get ready to channel your sporty side and strike the shuttlecock back and forth.
    — Ruby Rose Lee, Town & Country, 15 June 2015
  • At one point, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern engage in a game of rapid-fire queries, hitting them back and forth like shuttlecocks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Inside was a storage space with a bunch of cardboard boxes holding the shuttlecocks.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2016
  • Badminton is so boring that players stop trying to hit the stupid shuttlecock and start whacking one another in the face just for fun.
    — Tom Papa, The New Yorker, 24 July 2021
  • Skilled badminton players can smash the shuttlecock at speeds of more than 200 m.p.h. and have extended rallies that move at a one-shot-per-second pace.
    — Douglas C. Towne, azcentral, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Beneath the dark canopy, vines corkscrew around bulbous trunks and palms burst up like giant shuttlecocks from the dense foliage underfoot.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Badminton Players — either alone or in pairs — hit a shuttlecock across a net in this racquet sport, which officially became part of the Olympics in 1992.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Badminton Players — either alone or in pairs — hit a shuttlecock across a net in this racquet sport, which officially became part of the Olympics in 1992.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • When they were raised perpendicular to the fuselage, the craft slowed down and started descending like a shuttlecock.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Khmer Times Scales of the giant barb traditionally have been used for making a type of shuttlecock for badminton in Cambodia.
    — National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2020
  • So have the regular groups of people juggling shuttlecocks with their feet, and the hardy retirees who regularly work out on the exercise equipment in the park’s northeast corner.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Badminton, the modern iteration, is typically played by either two or four players, who bat a shuttlecock or birdie, usually made of plastic, across a net.
    — Alexis Soloski New York Times, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • Experienced competitors use natural shuttlecocks, the best of which are manufactured with feathers from the left-wing of a goose for top aerodynamics.
    — Douglas C. Towne, azcentral, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Just as a shuttlecock has a diameter of zero at its bottommost point and gradually widens on the way up, the universe, according to the no-boundary proposal, smoothly expanded from a point of zero size.
    — Wired, 16 June 2019
  • The day includes story times, origami art activities, puppets, a sculpture hunt and badminton demonstrations and games — presumably with normal-sized shuttlecocks.
    — David Frese, kansascity.com, 28 May 2017
  • On descent, the SpaceShipTwo enables its feather configuration, which is a method so the craft’s shape transforms into something similar to a badminton shuttlecock with wings rotating up.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Backyard badminton is usually played with nylon shuttlecocks.
    — Douglas C. Towne, azcentral, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The festival also features kite flying and a shuttlecock demonstration and competition.
    — Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 25 May 2021
  • Other sports equipment included in these bags are horseshoes, bocce balls, soccer balls, footballs, basketballs, volleyballs, kickballs, frisbees, wiffle balls, wiffle bats, badminton racquets, and badminton shuttlecocks.
    — Courant Community, 29 May 2018
  • This kit includes steel poles, a net, and racquets for four, so get ready to channel your sporty side and strike the shuttlecock back and forth.
    — Ruby Rose Lee, Town & Country, 15 June 2015
  • At one point, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern engage in a game of rapid-fire queries, hitting them back and forth like shuttlecocks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Inside was a storage space with a bunch of cardboard boxes holding the shuttlecocks.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2016
  • Badminton is so boring that players stop trying to hit the stupid shuttlecock and start whacking one another in the face just for fun.
    — Tom Papa, The New Yorker, 24 July 2021
  • Skilled badminton players can smash the shuttlecock at speeds of more than 200 m.p.h. and have extended rallies that move at a one-shot-per-second pace.
    — Douglas C. Towne, azcentral, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Beneath the dark canopy, vines corkscrew around bulbous trunks and palms burst up like giant shuttlecocks from the dense foliage underfoot.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Badminton Players — either alone or in pairs — hit a shuttlecock across a net in this racquet sport, which officially became part of the Olympics in 1992.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Badminton Players — either alone or in pairs — hit a shuttlecock across a net in this racquet sport, which officially became part of the Olympics in 1992.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • When they were raised perpendicular to the fuselage, the craft slowed down and started descending like a shuttlecock.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Khmer Times Scales of the giant barb traditionally have been used for making a type of shuttlecock for badminton in Cambodia.
    — National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2020
  • So have the regular groups of people juggling shuttlecocks with their feet, and the hardy retirees who regularly work out on the exercise equipment in the park’s northeast corner.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020

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