BALL in a Sentence

Learn BALL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
334 example sentences for BALL, such as:
1. The boy booted the ball away.
2. I'd still like to go to a ball game.
3. He batted the ball high into the air.
4. There is a dynamic ball in the computer.
5. He fumbled the ball and then dropped it.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BALL
ball
 n.  the game of baseball
 n.  round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Thereafter driving through broad streets sparsely lighted with lanterns, he arrived at the Governor's residence to find it illuminated as for a ball.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  Once more they assumed a careworn expression, and he even wiped his face with his handkerchief, then rolled it into a ball, and rubbed it to and fro against his upper lip.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  Shortly afterwards there arrived a card of invitation to the Governor's ball already referred to.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  With that went the easy bow of a military man and the agile backward movement of an india-rubber ball.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
5  Pavel Petrovitch met her at a ball, danced a mazurka with her, in the course of which she did not utter a single rational word, and fell passionately in love with her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  He invited Kirsanov and Bazarov to his ball, and within a few minutes invited them a second time, regarding them as brothers, and calling them Kisarov.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  A few days later the ball at the Governor's took place.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  She stayed later than any one at the ball, and at four o'clock in the morning she was dancing a polka-mazurka with Sitnikov in the Parisian style.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  The bone's not touched,' he muttered through his teeth; 'the ball didn't go deep; one muscle, vastus externus, grazed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  He very calmly stepped over me, while I flew on one side like a ball.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
12  That is a mirage, cheap mirage, revolting, romantic and fantastical--that's another ball on Lake Como.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
13  For instance, not long ago a lieutenant writes to a friend describing a ball very wittily.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
14  Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
15  "They say the ball will be very good," replied the princess, drawing up her downy little lip.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
1  Both players demonstrated their ability to hit the ball hard.
2  He batted the ball high into the air.
3  We will have to attend the ball just as a matter of form.
4  The cat curled into a ball and went to sleep.
5  The boys were kicking a ball around in the yard.
6  The boys were kicking an old ball around.
7  He asked for the ball and I kicked it over.
8  I'd still like to go to a ball game.
9  He played the ball back close to the net.
10  The boy booted the ball away.
11  He threw the ball to me, and I caught it.
12  A moment's indecision when you've got the ball and you could lose the game.
13  He fumbled the ball and then dropped it.
14  She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire.
15  There is a dynamic ball in the computer.