How to Use looper in a Sentence

looper

noun
  • Opitz hits a looper right over the shortstop for the first hit of the game.
    — Seth Campbell, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • There's a looper, tuner, metronome, and drum machine at the ready.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This has a goggles strap looper portion that will clip it in.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 26 May 2021
  • But what happens when a looper fails to kill their older self?
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • If the penetrator on that stunt didn’t hit home, the looper would have.
    — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • And with that diminutive stature, Young has to throw high-arcing loopers just to clear the line of scrimmage.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Need someone to occupy the guard and tackle on a tackle-end stunt to give the looper a free shot at the passer?
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
  • Stamberg asked looper David Randolph.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In his moment of triumph, Scheffler didn't forget the legendary looper, who is also his friend.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Every so often, one of the groups will play along and a looper will casually make his way to the putting surface ahead of the other caddies.
    — Jay Betsill, star-telegram.com, 29 May 2017
  • Asked what impresses him most about Scheffler, the veteran looper was pretty clear.
    — Garrett Johnston, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • His new looper is Luke Reardon, a close friend since their junior golf days in Queensland and a school roommate.
    — courant.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • One scrambling in-the-looper was caught yelling incoherent Ukraine talking points from notes written with a Sharpie.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The mob takes advantage of this opportunity by sending their targets into the past, where the looper is waiting to take them out.
    — Will Harris, EW.com, 9 June 2022
  • Johnson had the Dodgers’ only hit in the seventh, a two-out looper over Ernie Banks’ glove and down the right field line for a double.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Birdy performed a version of one of her songs as a ballad, which built into a cascading sequence involving a looper pedal, that gave me goose bumps.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 July 2024
  • The only possible pass was a delicate looper that reached Thompson too late for a standard layup but too early for an alley-oop.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 1 June 2018
  • Hudson Beamon sent a high looper toward center field that looked like a short wedge at Torrey Pines South.
    — Jim Lindgren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • To design the clothes, the Murray brothers traveled to the Chive offices in Austin, and shared stories about their days as loopers.
    — Steven Kurutz, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Buttons provide basic access to a tuner and a looper, though the associated app unlocks more complex options.
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Layer on layer of vocal effects, keyboard and guitar work and some magical loopers concoct the foundation as her lyrics tell a great story.
    — Chris Haghirian, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
  • This sock delivers some serious cushion over the foot’s five most common pressure zones, with warm terry loopers underfoot and a generous shin pad.
    — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
  • One of those caterpillars using coneflower (Echinacea) is called the camouflage looper.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • The short-term plan is for the partnership to continue throughout the summer then find Piot a new looper when Ellis gets back to the college golf season in the fall.
    — Tom Lang, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Wheaton plays a five-string violin with a digital looper, a device that records a line of music, then cycles it repeatedly as the musician adds in additional loops.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • It should also be noted that Gregory has been extremely effective as the looper on tackle/end stunts (above clip), generating one of his two sacks and multiple pressures with the concept.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Unfortunately, English will need a new caddie at least for this week as his longtime looper, Eric Larson, is home in Florida.
    — Savannah Leigh Richardson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Rosario singled also had a brain cramp in the first inning of Game 3, getting a terrible read on Albies’ looper to shallow center and getting doubled off second in the first inning.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Machado, who was warmly cheered by a Phillies crowd that wants him in their colors, doubled down the right-field line and scored when Trumbo hit a looper into short right-field and Nick Williams misplayed it.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 4 July 2018
  • The odor masks the scent of animals' preferred vegetables and confuses insect pests, including aphids, carrot flies, cabbage worms and loopers, spider mites, thrips, and Japanese beetles.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 3 May 2026

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