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How to use ball in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Ball means a solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. Example: “This dish is served with balls of potato.”

Examples of ball by meaning

nounA solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

  • a ball of spittle; a fecal ball

nounA quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

  • a ball of wool; a ball of twine

nounA food preparation formed into a spherical shape.

  • This dish is served with balls of potato.

nounA roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.

  • the ball of the thumb

nounAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled...

  • Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
  • Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales

nounAny sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.

  • The children were playing ball on the beach.
  • George played his college ball at Stanford.

nounAn opportunity to launch the pinball into play.

  • If you get to a million points, you get another ball.

nounA kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished...

  • Shetland increased the lead in the 22nd minute when Kirkness shot first time from a ball that was fired into the area from outside the 25-metre line.2014 October 21, Jim Tait, “Hockey girls through to next round”, in Shetland Times, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2024
  • Mark Wright sent a speculative ball for me to chase after and I found myself leaving Tony Adams in my wake, with only Seaman to beat.2019, Robbie Fowler, My Life In Football: Goals, Glory & The Lessons I've Learnt, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN

More sentences with ball

  • You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.From the entry name
  • If the player fails to hit the ball on, it's a foul.From the entry on
  • If the tennis ball bounces on the line then it's in.From the entry in
  • The throw-in is taken from the point where the ball crossed the touch-line.From the entry take
  • After a split second of hesitation, the second baseman leaped for the ball—or, rather, stumbled for it.From the entry for
  • The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.From the entry angle
  • The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.From the entry lob
  • He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch.From the entry touch
  • The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.From the entry graduation
  • He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show.From the entry show
  • Tell Johnson he needs to be on a string with the ball.From the entry string
  • He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.From the entry power
  • He played the blue ball, but the green would have been a better choice.From the entry play
  • In potting the yellow ball, he's knocked the green into play.From the entry play
  • The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.From the entry kick
  • Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.From the entry ping
  • The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.From the entry pot
  • (determination): You shall go to the ball!; He shall be given a fair trial.From the entry shall
  • The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.From the entry net
  • He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.From the entry side
  • The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.From the entry turn over
  • He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.From the entry check
  • The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.From the entry batter
  • The wall collapsed when it was hit by the wrecking ball.From the entry collapse
  • The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.From the entry crack
  • I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.From the entry out
  • The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.From the entry spot
  • The black ball won't spot – the green is in the way.From the entry spot
  • Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball.From the entry drop

Meaning of ball

  1. noun A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
  2. noun A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
  3. noun A food preparation formed into a spherical shape.

Full definition of ball

Questions about ball in a sentence

How do you use ball in a sentence?
Ball is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “This dish is served with balls of potato.”
What is a short sentence with ball?
“the ball of the thumb”
What does ball mean?
Ball means a solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ball (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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