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How to use batting in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Batting means cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc. Example: “Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.”

Examples of batting by meaning

nounThe act of someone who bats.

  • the battings of her eyelashes

More sentences with batting

  • Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.From the entry down
  • The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.From the entry field
  • A player's batting average is his hits divided by his official at-bats.From the entry official at-bat
  • I’ve spent all week batting around the country.From the entry bat
  • His weakness in batting is against googly.From the entry googly
  • Jones will be batting cleanup in tonight's game.From the entry cleanup
  • His weakness in batting is against doosras.From the entry doosra
  • You must be tired after batting around all day.From the entry bat around
  • He's batting a thousand so far with the new boss.From the entry bat a thousand
  • No, I am really not good at batting in baseball. I cannot hit the broad side of a barn, really.From the entry not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
  • He called dibs on batting first.From the entry dibs
  • He could wallop two dozen large rossogollas in one sitting without batting an eyelid.2018, Monila De, Unforgettable Kalimpong. From the entry rossogolla
  • Kohli says that his white-ball batting is essentially an extension of his Test batting.2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, “To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future”, in The Daily…. From the entry white ball
  • I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92. From the entry whoosh
  • The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry stumpy
  • The flair for bright batting went against them as they fell easy prey to the Aussie pacemen.1976, The Statesman, volume 22, page 47. From the entry paceman
  • Not short on self-assurance, Gulbadeen opened the batting (and bowled at the death) with more swash than buckle.2020, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2020. From the entry swash
  • Amazed though I was that she was au courant, I gave her the answer without batting an eyelid.2017, Bertil Dunér, Little Counsellor, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry without batting an eyelid
  • Many accepted her without batting an eyelash.2014, Jolie Jaquinta, Red Queen: Book One of the Six Books of Magic, →ISBN. From the entry without batting an eyelash
  • This movement was widely considered Cal's batting masterpiece.2010 May, Gar Ryness [i.e., George A. Ryness IV]; Caleb Dewart, “Cal Ripken Jr.”, in Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball, 1st…. From the entry stance
  • The batting side may decide which of the two rollers to use - the heavy or the light roller.2001, M.A. Pervez, A Dictionary of Cricket, page 67. From the entry light roller
  • This manager, in keeping with all other famous managers, believed that batting was the thing which won games.1920, Zane Grey, “The Manager of Madden's Hill”, in The Redheaded Outfield. From the entry hit and run
  • And it’s the fourth time through the batting order, and your ERA, your batting average against, all of these different numbers come into play.2019 March 28, Chad Jennings, quoting Chris Sale, “An old school rotation, coming to terms with the demands of pitching in a new age”, in…. From the entry yell at the clouds
  • Now Holman, the batmaker, is not making bats for Bonds, and Yandle, the batting practice pitcher, is not throwing pitches to Bonds.2008 April 17, Jack Curry, “Bats Ready, but Bonds May Not Need Them”, in New York Times. From the entry batmaker
  • The student from Georgia who took care of fawns climbs atop a batting cage, pulls on leather monkey gloves, sits cross-legged, and waits.2006, Amy Sutherland, Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, →ISBN. From the entry monkey glove
  • 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. From the entry bat
  • Showing a heavy batting power that shelled three Roosevelt junior highschoolers from the pitching mound, the Capitol Hill Papooses opened the city softball race Thursday with a 9-4 win.1936 March 26, “Papooses Scalp Roosevelt Boys”, in Daily Beacon of Capitol Hill, volume 3, number 19, Oklahoma City, Okla., →OCLC, page 8…. From the entry junior highschooler
  • In one of the dumber “controversies” of the season, Braves color commentator and resident Old Man Yelling at Cloud, Joe Simpson, blasted the Dodgers for unprofessional attire during batting practice.2019, Mark Barry, BP staff, “Los Angeles Dodgers”, in Patrick Dubuque, Aaron Gleeman, Bret Sayre, editors, Baseball Prospectus 2019: The…. From the entry old man yelling at cloud

Meaning of batting

  1. noun Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.
  2. noun Special cotton for surgery.
  3. noun The act of someone who bats.

Full definition of batting

Questions about batting in a sentence

How do you use batting in a sentence?
Batting is used as a noun. For example: “Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.”
What is a short sentence with batting?
“the battings of her eyelashes”
What does batting mean?
Batting means cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.

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