BAT in a Sentence
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40 example sentences for BAT, such as:
1. If he couldn't bowl, he could bat.
2. He batted the ball high into the air.
3. Not a single bat can resist the dawn.
4. He batted the idea around in his head.
5. The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
2. He batted the ball high into the air.
3. Not a single bat can resist the dawn.
4. He batted the idea around in his head.
5. The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
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Meanings and Examples of BAT
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bat
n. a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
n. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles.
2 I went to the window and looked out, but could see nothing, except a big bat, which had evidently been buffeting its wings against the window.
3 But the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking there came a big bat and sat on the window-sill.
4 The Count, even if he takes the form of a bat, cannot cross the running water of his own volition, and so cannot leave the ship.
5 This is evident; for had he power to move himself as he wished he could go either as man, or wolf, or bat, or in some other way.
6 Not a single bat can resist the dawn.
7 There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat.
8 A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle.
9 He put his hoop away, and his bat; there was no joy in them any more.
10 He seized Becky's hand and hurried her into the first corridor that offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky's light out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern.
11 But that weakness that's in our hearts can lick us in the time it takes to bat your eye.
12 I've gone through life like a bat out of hell, never caring what I did, because nothing ever mattered to me.
13 There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger--with a cricket bat in his hand.
14 If he couldn't bowl, he could bat.
15 And from here and from there came the sounds of the cricket bats through the soft grey air.
Example Sentence:
1 I have to bat out a term paper before class.
2 Australia, put in to bat, made a cautious start.
3 There was a bat haven saved in church roof.
4 Swooping in for the hunt, the long-eared bat takes on the deadly deathstalker scorpion on foot;this scorpion's venom is so strong it is capable of killing a human.
5 In the fading light we saw bats flitting around/about in the garden.
6 Dogs, cats, foxes and bats can all carry rabies.
7 As dusk fell, bats began to fly between the trees.
8 The strong, elastic wood of this tree, used for furniture, tool handles, and sporting goods such as baseball bats.
9 There were plenty of things to question, but I never batted a lash at that.
10 He batted the idea around in his head.
11 The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
12 He batted the ball high into the air.