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Example sentences for "ball game"

  • Betty and Katherine, having watched the finish of the basket-ball game, followed them, and spent the time before dinner in painting a poster which they hung conspicuously on Mary's door.

  • Rachel's was a sensible explanation of just how much time, or rather how little, a spread, a dance or a basket-ball game takes.

  • Washington never saw a base-ball game; Madison wrote the Constitution of the United States, and died without seeing one; Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, and yet his monument has no tribute of this kind upon it.

  • Hamilton, the most marvelous and creative genius, made constitutions, built up systems and created institutions, and yet never witnessed a base-ball game.

  • A Bucket-Ball Game This is a new indoor game which follows out in principle the regular baseball play.

  • I believe the folks in this town are too mean to come to a show or a ball game, even if it was to help buy an engine, and a second-hand one at that," declared John.

  • We could raise the money somehow--get up a show, or have a ball game.

  • Well, we could give some sort of an entertainment, get up a ball game, and charge admission, and we boys can make some cash doing odd jobs, and put that in the treasury.

  • And at the end of it, as from the umpire at a ball game, to a decision.

  • Not even, going back to her university days, on the eve of a class basket-ball game, or a tennis match, had she felt that fine thrill of buoyant confidence and adequacy quite so strongly!

  • It is always regrettable when men with literary skill are available for the description of a ball game, or are exploited as worthy writers about a prize-fight.

  • Let’s have a ball game,” suggested Peetie, as he wiggled his left ear.

  • Bully No-Tail, the frog boy, as he and his brother, who were hopping to a ball game, happened to see Nellie.

  • And then school was over and all the children ran out to play and Bawly thought he never had had so much fun in all his life as when he and Bully and some of the others had a ball game, and Bawly knocked a fine home run.

  • Professor George had not missed a ball game in twenty years.

  • Never in the town's history had there been so many paid admissions to a ball game.

  • This crowd had come to see a mysterious youth pitch a ball game.

  • But now," he laughed low, "the next thing is a ball game.

  • It is never weary waiting for the foot-ball game to begin, when the weather is good.

  • Jack followed his pilot up the dark, smelly stairs, answering questions all the way as to the foot-ball game.

  • Yet a tennis match excites the least interest of all college sports, base-ball comes next in the rising scale, and both of these combined do not rouse a quarter of the enthusiasm provoked by a foot-ball game.

  • I want you to have my reserved seat for the basket-ball game," went on Georgia.

  • The red is placed on the spot assigned to the dark-red in the American four-ball game.

  • The game is begun by stringing for the lead and choice of balls, as in the four-ball game, the same regulations governing.

  • The best arrangement of bridges for the four-ball game is that given in Figure I.

  • For the six or eight-ball game Figure II.

  • An eight-ball or even a six-ball game is apt to be tedious, and skilful players invariably give the preference to the four-ball game, which may therefore be considered croquet par eminence.

  • I'll never cut business for a ball game again, and I'll do all I can to help out.

  • Oh, if only Will were home from that ball game.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ball game" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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