ball
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His ability to attack space stretches the defence, while his movement without the ball creates opportunities for team-mates.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
When Rybakina notched her first break of the match to seize a 3-2 lead in the first set, Sabalenka responded by angrily launching a ball high into the stands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Just trying to stay on top through the ball, stay up the middle or left-center,” Tucker said about unlocking a better swing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Either they dropped the ball, or you missed the letter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
That was why she hated getting a fish first go: it was like finishing a ball game after one catch.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
“He’s gonna swing at strikes, take balls, put together good at-bats,” Roberts said before De Paula made his major league debut Friday in the Dodgers’ 6-2 win over the Miami Marlins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Who could have predicted that defending league MVP Matthew Stafford would throw high, throw short, and basically throw an array of balls that landed down under?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
To their presumable dismay, there are no scenes of the singer quitting the tour to go house-hunting, external; throwing snooker balls at Blur, external; or starting a fight on a cross-channel ferry.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Allan, who was 47 and toward the end of his second marriage by the time Steven was born, got annoyed by errant balls that Steven didn’t get in his plastic Little Tikes hoop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
I had seen him juggling as many as four balls before, many a time, and he had hardly ever dropped one.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
The Chinese space effort, by contrast, is “all balled up—security, military, all together, all in one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
I balled my hands into fists and stretched my arms out and up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
That song, a hushed balled called Who I Am, will open his new album, Shawn, when it is released in October.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024
Workers balled up bread for bait and threw lines over the side of the platform.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
Petey came at him fists balled and face lit with a goofy smile.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
"It's all dog, all the time," he said of Roscoe's balling talents.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
They are local heroes in brilliant yellow who have risen from the brink of bankruptcy to balling like a frost-kissed Brazil.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
“More things that just never happened,” according to Lizzo, include the singer “cracking her knuckles, balling her fists” and launching perceived threats after Rodriguez announced her resignation, as the dancer alleged in the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024
“I’m telling you!” she cried, balling up her fists.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
Twice, she has to stop balling socks to take calls for upcoming babysitting —no, childcare—gigs.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
