How to Use go to bat in a Sentence

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• Mara wasn’t a household name at the time, so Fincher had to go to bat to cast her.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
• In the meantime, the social media giants continue to go to bat to preserve the status quo.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 19 June 2020
• On one side, there will be tough-on-crime Caruso, who has spent nearly $30 million on his own campaign, and the police union, through its PAC, spending freely to go to bat for him.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• The think tank also declined to go to bat for a bipartisan resolution in the Senate aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen.
  — Author: Yeganeh Torbati, Beth Reinhard, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2020
• That was something that definitely drew me to this team: having strong, powerful Black women who will go to bat for me and make things happen in my career.
  — Paul Thompson, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2021
• McDonnell said that by constantly having to go to bat for their content, fat creators on TikTok are being suppressed.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• While Republicans have feigned willingness to pass protections for gay and lesbian Americans, few have been willing to go to bat for trans people.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
• The best salespeople look at solutions from their prospects’ points of view, create unique solutions and go to bat for their clients — letting go of premeditated solutions.
  — Yamini Virani, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• Bridgeland notes that lawmakers who sign on to co-sponsor a bill may not be willing to actually go to bat during negotiations.
  — Rachel M Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• In both cases, critics saw the men as domineering personalities who made enemies in political circles — leaving few people willing to go to bat for them when scandal hit.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024