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How to use bat in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Bat means any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. Example: “You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?”

Examples of bat by meaning

nounAny flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

  • The Bat—they called him the Bat.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...
  • Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban bat colony (in Austin).2012, Suemedha Sood, (bbc.co.uk) Travelwise: Texas love bats [sic]

nounA turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.

  • You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?

nounA player rated according to skill in batting.

  • He's a good fielder and a valuable bat.

verbTo hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.

  • He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.
  • We batted a few ideas around.

verbTo strike or swipe as though with a bat.

  • The cat batted at the toy.

verbTo flutter.

  • to bat one’s eyelashes

verbTo flit quickly from place to place.

  • I’ve spent all week batting around the country.
  • The "Star" is batting along at about a mile a minute, chattering away at the chimney and snatching small coal off the shovel.1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 88

More sentences with bat

  • Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.From the entry look
  • He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.From the entry cork
  • The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.From the entry crack
  • My boss didn't tell me to reorganize the filing system; I did it off my own bat.From the entry off one's own bat
  • They did a double switch after the eighth so that Jones could bat second in the ninth.From the entry double switch
  • He made a poor showing at his first time at bat.From the entry showing
  • I think we've batted this idea around enough to take a decision.From the entry bat around
  • Good backside throw leads to good hip speed which leads to good bat speed.From the entry backside throw
  • The fielding coach used his fungo bat to help Jones work on his first step.From the entry fungo bat
  • It feels really bad to get hit with a baseball bat.From the entry feel bad
  • Don't let him touch the bat, he's a total panauti — we always lose when he's around.From the entry panauti
  • He hit it right on the meat of the bat.From the entry meat
  • The crack of the bat hitting the ball.From the entry crack
  • The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.From the entry jam
  • We batted around in our half of the inning.From the entry inning
  • I didn't see anything wrong, off the bat.From the entry off the bat
  • Although the vampire bat is known for feeding on blood, most species of bat eat insects, and many are frugivorous.From the entry frugivorous
  • Good hip speed leads to good bat speed.From the entry hip speed
  • You are next in turn to bat.From the entry in turn
  • No one can bat a thousand for the whole season.From the entry bat a thousand
  • Australia won the coin toss and chose to bat first.From the entry coin toss
  • He must have corked up that bat.From the entry cork up
  • She hit me over the head with a baseball bat.From the entry over the head
  • I catered for her bat mitzvah.From the entry cater
  • The monk bat is a molossine.From the entry molossine
  • The ball can still be batted away with one or both hands. It can be batted from a player's hands or batted away during a shot.From the entry bat away
  • But what we've seen straight off the bat has been a big winner for our customers."2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 35. From the entry off the bat
  • That camera didn't work after I took the bat to it.2020 November 10, Clyde Wright, Baseball the Wright Way, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN. From the entry take something to
  • They bat deep in the midfield and he is so damaging closer to goal.2019 March 21, Nick Riewoldt, “AFL 2019: St Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt lists the 12 most irreplaceable players in the AFL”, in Fox Footy. From the entry bat deep
  • But while common and soprano pipistrelles are numerous, the barbastelle bat is dependent on ancient woodland.2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian. From the entry barbastelle

Meaning of bat

  1. noun Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
  2. noun An old woman.
  3. noun A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon.

Full definition of bat

Questions about bat in a sentence

How do you use bat in a sentence?
Bat is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?”
What is a short sentence with bat?
“to bat one’s eyelashes”
What does bat mean?
Bat means any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bat (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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