How to Use bat around in a Sentence

bat around

phrasal verb

• Eastlake sent 13 batters to the plate in the fourth and batted around in a three-run fifth.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
• The offense backed him up, though, batting around in the bottom half of the first to take a brief 4-3 lead.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
• Ellington scored twice in the first inning but broke the game open in the third, scoring the six runs and batting around.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• The idea has been batted around and hotly debated for a long time.
  — Fatima Hussein, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• That question is being batted around by some jam-band fans.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• Because the Diamondbacks bat around the order in the inning, Carroll got two at-bats.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
• But while this time, 36 samples have been taken from bats around the area where Ali lived, none of them have tested positive for Nipah so far.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• However, the Razorbacks batted around in the bottom of the inning to score six runs and end James Madison's upset hopes.
  — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• The Matadors batted around, starting with Riley Winchell’s leadoff single to left field.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
• Outside the court, the issue has been frequently batted around by the executive branch.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• On Tuesday, the team surged ahead early, ambushing Orioles starter Tyler Wells by batting around in the second inning.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• The Giants batted around in the third, an inning in which Glasnow threw 37 pitches after throwing only 24 pitches in the first two innings.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• Lawmakers batted around changing the way Alabama funds schools, but dropped the idea after the session started.
  — Tcrain, al, 21 July 2023
• The Phillies batted around in the first inning, forcing Winn to exhaust 39 pitches before departed with an out remaining.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 4 May 2024
• The word gets batted around a lot, but there’s little in Galliano’s unsympathetic demeanor in the interviews shot for High & Low to suggest much more than lip service.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• These are doomsday scenarios that have been batted around for the last decade but are unlikely to materialize.
  — Paul D. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
• The recording project Crutchfield seems most excited about is an idea she’s been batting around with Cook for a while: a collection of songs from Waxahatchee’s earlier days, reworked in arrangements more suited to her current style.
  — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2024
• With Los Angeles police investigating, gallery staff were re-watching surveillance video that captured part of the crime and batting around various theories.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Grant is equally sublime as her eccentric husband Sir James, the quintessential vaguely absent British toff, batting around inane observations and plummy superlatives while seeming to float above everything from minor mishaps to major disasters.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Ideas to increase transparency have been batted around: a broadcast delay, where sensitive information is redacted before being broadcast publicly; a phone application that allows accredited reporters to listen in, perhaps in real time.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024