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Example sentences for "balled"

Lexicographically close words:
ballance; ballast; ballasted; ballasting; balle; ballerina; balles; ballet; ballets; balling
  1. Everything that could be moth-balled and put away in chests has been moth-balled and put away.

  2. Astro whirled around, his face grim, his hands balled into fists, ready to fight.

  3. He balled his huge hands into tight knots and stared at the floor.

  4. After riding for an hour I was obliged to get off and walk for another, for the snow balled in Birdie's feet to such an extent that she could hardly keep up even without my weight on her, and my pick was not strong enough to remove it.

  5. I tried to shut the power off, and in doing so I balled things up worse than ever.

  6. Tilly was silent for several minutes, her glance on the lap of her black dress, and the black-bordered handkerchief which she held balled in her little hand.

  7. You're just getting the whole lot of us balled up.

  8. Suddenly the inspector whirled upon me with his lips drawn back and his hand balled into a fist as if he were going to strike me.

  9. The wire got balled up somewhere, and I didn't get it until late at night.

  10. Lidgerwood's right hand, balled into a fist, smote the air, and his outburst was a fierce imprecation.

  11. If we get completely balled up, we'll go over them together.

  12. If you ask me, we've already completely balled up.

  13. After one of these sad Affairs, at which the Rummies had balled up the whole Menu, Claudine came to the front with an Ultimatum.

  14. Then she recalled, with a sharp catch of the Breath and a little tug of Pain at the Heart, that she had balled herself up at one Stage and got dummied out of a Grand Slam.

  15. Krishna stuck his balled fists into the pockets of his space-age future-sarcastic jacket.

  16. Avram's hands were clawed with cold and caked with mud and still echoing the feeling of frozen skin and frozen dirt, and balled up into fists, they felt like stones.

  17. Now he balled his fist and smote it against the palm of his other hand with a slap that resounded.

  18. The hand was wrenched away and a balled fist held under McTee's nose.

  19. He drove at the elusive figure with his balled fist, but the other ducked beneath the blow and fled down the ladder.

  20. Her hand had gathered to a hard-balled fist.

  21. The snow fell in balled up masses, and light absolutely disappeared so far as any ability to fix its source existed.

  22. Bunny balled his nervous hands into hard fists and tried to swallow the lump that kept coming up in his throat.

  23. For a solid ten seconds the farmer frowned; then his eyebrows raised and his balled fists unclenched.

  24. It further develops that a good many things connected with Mr. Chesterton's life and house get balled up.

  25. It develops that the letter you sent fixing the appointment got balled up in some way.

  26. He's busted--and all balled up in the Street.

  27. This bull would have been taken had the other Indians showed any degree of alacrity when Orkeke balled him; but they were dispirited by the previous failure.

  28. He didn't stop long, but he took us over to the saloon and balled us off'--that means he treated to drinks.

  29. Everything is all balled up, the managers are sore at me, and afraid of being sent to jail, and pa thinks I ought to be mauled.

  30. There are certain members who black-balled me seven times and who now assure me that they were my warmest partisans.

  31. I had the good fortune to be black-balled by some men I detest, for it is a cause for thankfulness not to be obliged to carry a burden of gratitude to people whom you dislike.

  32. I hope I shall succeed in the end, and that the big colossus will be black-balled in good fashion.

  33. Though it was balled in upon itself he was sure the creature was fully as large as he, and the menacing claws suggested it was a formidable opponent.

  34. Deliberately Vye brought up his right hand, balled his fingers into a fist.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.