How to Use softball in a Sentence

softball

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• Do you want to play softball?
• All the questions in the interview were softballs.
• The next morning, workers found the dead birds and a new, softball-sized hole in the mesh.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022
• Oregon softball opens the 2023 season ranked in the first of the two major polls.
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2023
• Travis Kelce is showing off his softball skills all in the name of a good cause.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 9 June 2024
• The softball team has won the last six CHL championships.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
• The softball game starts at 5 p.m., before the Royals take on the San Diego Padres that night.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
• The school is closed for spring break, but the boys’ baseball and girls’ softball teams have games today.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• The young mother, who grew up in Villa Park and played softball, died the next day.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Japan loves baseball, and along with softball the sport was added back in Tokyo in 2020.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Today, weeds grow from the fissures that snake across the courts, and the softball field is riddled with holes.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Oh, and by the way, the win clinched FSK’s first softball regional title in over 25 years.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• What softball team wouldn’t be thrilled to have someone bat .510.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2022
• The softball team is no stranger to success or such parades.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
• Her kids fell in love with the man who played softball with them and other youngsters on their street.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2022
• Bragg has been selected The Times’ softball player of the year.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• The softball and soccer teams also play their games there.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2022
• When the season started, 13 of the 23 girls had never played softball.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
• Twentynine Palms was a place where the mayor coached the high school softball team.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Which baseball and softball Fort Worth-area athletes should be named player of the week?
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
• The second phase of the project includes a baseball and softball complex.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2022
• On a day when many softball teams in the Bay Area had their games rained out, Dublin was able to win a thriller at a tournament.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• While this season of AU softball wraps up this week, Willis hopes to continue with the league.
  — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
• Saturday at the UConn softball complex, the story played out the same way again.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2024
• She was also named a Baltimore Sun girls softball Coach of the Year.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025
• Jones was reportedly a straight-A student and was on the high school softball team.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2022
• That would include three of six tennis courts, a parking lot and a softball field.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Weiler was considered the best pitcher in the world in the 1970s, when men’s fastpitch softball was at its peak.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Dawson is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and Finch is one of the best softball players ever.
  — Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024
• Jessie Diaz-Herrera grew up as an athlete, starting with softball as a kid and later taking up rugby and dance.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 27 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025