Type of basketball shot

Usage examples of fadeaway.

So our favorite explorer of the magical realms of sports, Rick Wilber, has put aside his split-finger fastball for the fadeaway lumper and given us this moving and personal story of how some forms of truth can be found at the top of the key.

Carson had been practicing on what he called a fadeaway ball, and now he thought this would be just the right thing to offer Sam.

Robert backs in on Jimmy, protecting the ball as he moves in toward the goal, getting ready to take a little turn-around fadeaway jumper that should end it.

One of the inventions to bring the twilight of the gathering into brotherhood with the shadows on the screen is a simple thing known to the trade as the fadeaway, that had its rise in a commonplace fashion as a method of keeping the story from ending with the white glare of the empty screen.

Elite skin had to be somewhat permeable, and a heavy douse of fadeaway would put one down for several minutes while the Elite immune system dealt with the drug.

He watched The Shadow whirl about and perform a sweeping fadeaway, as crooks fired in return.

On the move, he thought that the rise of darkness and its curious fadeaway were due to the changing angle of his vision.

This was the fadeaway that he had so artfully performed before the gun-barrels of other gangland foes.

He was so aggressive and had such long arms that Treyshawn had to try a fadeaway with a high arc from ten feet out.

Panic and hysteria would travel slowly along the constriction and there would be time for the quick, prepared fadeaway along the side passage or the unobtrusive step onto an escalating localway that would move them to a higher level and disappearance.

Then, toward the end, Robert backs in on Jimmy, protecting the ball as he moves in toward the goal, getting ready to take a little turn-around fadeaway jumper that should end it.

I could see a couple of street monsters parked in her drive, scratching their balls and waiting for a fadeaway woman in a light green Subaru wagon with two little girls in the back.

If the bomb worked correctly, as the prototype had, it would connect itself to the surface of the Peaceforcer rolligon by a superconducting magnet, punch a sixty-centimeter-long spike down through the stiff outer wall of the rolligon, and, through the spike, spray fadeaway at high pressure across the interior of the rolligon.

He scrambled for balance, hampered by servos that were slower than his own muscles, lunged forward at the last moment and landed belly down across the top of the rolligon, still holding the fadeaway bomb.

The long spike through which the fadeaway had been sprayed hung straight down through the roof of the rolligon, still dripping very slightly.