ballpark

Example Sentences

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At one point, he considered building a ballpark for baseball’s Miami Marlins.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Even though there is a ballpark amount she should have saved, you want to avoid “time-based” suggestions, Abrahams says.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026

Surveillance software sprouted in every cranny of the ballpark, first in service of providing more data for teams and front offices to pore over, then as fuel for ever more esoteric betting propositions.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

"So far as I can say, it is old, sub-fossilised, and probably Pleistocene - it's a massive ballpark, but most likely somewhere between 100,000 and half a million years old."

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Being a vegetarian also meant giving up traditions I value: the Thanksgiving turkey, my mother’s beef brisket at Passover, or even franks at the ballpark.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan