balled up

Example Sentences

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It was defiance and euphoria and adrenaline just balled up into this big massive gig.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024

Workers balled up bread for bait and threw lines over the side of the platform.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023

But I just laid there, balled up, defeated.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2022

He recalls wandering the sand, his parents scraping tar off the bottoms of his feet and warning him not to step on the small black objects that had balled up on the beach.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Shoun said that maybe he’d misspoken: “I don’t want to get balled up and don’t want to get in bad.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann