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Examples of fly ball in a Sentence
He hit a long fly ball to left field.
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Aaron Judge made a nice catch on a Freddie Freeman fly ball for the first out of the inning:
Yankees still lead 5-0.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Now there were an awful lot of can-of-corn fly balls within that excess - only the Nationals had weaker average fly ball authority among NL clubs - but all of that volume has an impact.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The shallow fly ball that hung up just long enough for Teoscar Hernández to get there.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
After play was paused to assess the foul ball, Doval locked in and recorded a quick fly ball out that pushed across the Royals’ lone run, then struck out Pham on four pitches.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined above
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“Fly ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fly%20ball. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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