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Examples of fly ball in a Sentence
He hit a long fly ball to left field.
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The batter lifted an ordinary two-out fly ball towards left field.
—Chuck Murr, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Aaron Judge dropped a routine fly ball in center field, Anthony Volpe misfired on a throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm, and Gerrit Cole and Anthony Rizzo did not communicate who was going to cover the first base bag on a simple ground ball.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2024
Judge, who did not commit an error in 158 regular-season games and 13 postseason games, raced in and had plenty of time to catch what seemed to be a routine fly ball.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Players with pizzazz blow bubbles while catching fly balls or hitting home runs.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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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 2 Dec. 2024.
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